Patrick Lichty

'Patrick Lichty (born October 5, 1962) is a conceptual media artist, activist, curator, and educator. From Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He was born to Harold C. and Nancy J., and has a brother, Robert C.. He is married. Lichty is currently an Assistant Professor of Animation at Zayed University.

Patrick Lichty
Born (1962-10-15) October 15, 1962
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
NationalityAmerican
EducationMFA
Alma materBowling Green State University
Known forRTMark/The Yes Men, Second Front
Notable work
Smithsonian Collection, Honorable mention, Golden Nica, Alpert Foundation Award, Performa Biennial

A notable MFA alumnus of Bowling Green State University,[1] Lichty is one of the elusive members of The Yes Men and RTMark/The Yes Men. Lichty joined RTMark in 1997. RTMark (pronounced "art-mark"), engaged in various corporate and institutional activist hacking projects, mimicking the verbiage and aesthetics of their corporate targets.

RTMark/The Yes Men

RTMark was responsible for subversive media projects such as the Barbie Liberation Organization Barbie Liberation Organization, the SimCopter Hack RTMark, and others. The group's motivations are discussed in Life Imitates RTMark (per se) or Commodifying the Antagonistic[2] In 2002 RTMark was invited to the Whitney Biennial [3] and was awarded a Herb Alpert/Calarts Award.[4][5] In keeping with their subversive ethos, RTMark then hacked their own Whitney Biennial project.[6] Lichty describes the experience in Confessions of a Whitneybiennial.com Curator.[7] ARTMark later became the group known as The Yes Men. Lichty is credited with playing himself in the movie Yes Men.[8] See a picture at Getty Images.[9]

Digital tapestry

He is a pioneer in the creation of digital tapestries,[10][11] in particular, Jacquard weaving.[12][13][14][15] In December 2014, he had a solo exhibition of his tapestry and robotic drawing work called "Sensible Concepts: Mediation as a Way of Being" [16][17][18]

Virtual reality, Second Life, Second Front

In addition, he has produced cutting edge work and scholarship in the emerging areas of augmented and virtual reality.[19][20][21] He is a co-founder of Second Front, a pioneering Second Life performance art group.[22]

Collections and publications

Lichty's work is in collections from The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN[23] to the Smithsonian.[24] He also works as a curator [25][26][27] and critic.[28] He is the author of "Variant analyses: interrogations of new media art and culture." [29] published in 2013 by the institute of network cultures.[30]

gollark: Yeeees, American healthcare does seem to be uniquely bizarre and wasteful. There are a bunch of theories about this.
gollark: (there are probably, at most, something like a thousand offices getting that)
gollark: This furniture budget thing probably doesn't add up to a significant amount of the total spend, so it's a bad comparison.
gollark: Apparently American healthcare spending is something like 17% of GDP for some insane reason. So it would be a big fraction of the government budget, if they ran it as efficiently as it currently operated.
gollark: Possibly. Paying people if they want to move out seems more reasonable than doing stupid things to local property markets, or whatever, or adjusting taxes so those already there can afford it.

References
  1. Bowling Green State University Notable Alums
  2. Intelligent Agent, Life Imitates RTMark (per se) or Commodifying the Antagonistic.
  3. Now Anyone Can Be in the Whitney Biennial
  4. RTMark Receives Alpert Award
  5. Lichty mentioned in RTMark award announcement on Facebook
  6. Rhizome editorial
  7. Confessions of a whitenybiennial.com Curator
  8. IMDb The Yes Men: Full Cast and Crew
  9. Getty Images
  10. Furtherfield
  11. 4humanities
  12. Ex Nihilo
  13. Rise of the Machines, New York (IFAC)
  14. Cited as a significant artist using Jacquard weaving Tapestry
  15. Interview by Tilman Baumgartel
  16. Sensible Concepts Dec. 2014, NYC
  17. Sensible Concepts Interview with Clocktower Radio
  18. Sensible Concepts Show Announcement, Rhizome.org
  19. Chapter, Augmented Reality Art, Part of the Springer Series on Cultural Computing
  20. Second Front: (As Man Michinaga) Arts in Second Life
  21. Oxford Handbook: The Translation of Art in Virtual Worlds
  22. Patrick Lichty's Second Front/Second Life avatar
  23. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
  24. Helios Photography Online, SPRAWL: American Landscape in Translation
  25. Reconfiguring the Museum Electronic Media and Emergent Curatorial Models
  26. ReDistributions
  27. Through The Looking Glass (like an Early Wrong Bienniale)
  28. Harpers Bazaar, A Rabbit's Tale, Summer 2016
  29. Variant Analyses, Published by the institute of network cultures
  30. institute of network cultures
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