* 1962, currently based: Winona, mn
Affiliated institution: Winona State University
http://www.patlichty.com voyd@voyd.com
About
Patrick is a conceptual artist, curator, and theorist exploring how media shape our perception of reality as well as the borders between the digital and the materal. He is best known for his work with the virtual reality performance art group Second Front, as half of NPTeam with his partner, Iranian Artist Negin Ehtesabian, and the animator of the activist group, The Yes Men. He is a CalArts/Herb Alpert Fellow and Whitney Biennial exhibitor as part of the collective RTMark. He has presented and exhibited internationally at numerous biennials and triennials (Yokohama, Venice, Performa, Maribor, Turin, Sundance), and conferences (ISEA, SIGGRAPH, Popular Culture Association, SLSA, SxSW). His recent book, “Variant Analyses: Interrogations of New Media Culture” was released by the Institute for Networked Culture, and is included in the Oxford Handbook of Virtuality.
CV
MFA, PKP Computer Art, Bowling Green University, 2006
Ehtesabian-Lichty (NPTEAM) (w/Negin Ehtesabian)
Googled Earth, Critical Abstraction, University of Wyoming, 2021
Co-Founder Second Front
Performa Biennial, NYC, 2009 - Second Front's "The Wrath of Kong"
Yokohama Trienniale 2008, "Dream Umbrellas" (w/Gazira Babeli),
as part of Cao Fei's "Play with your Triennial" (RMB City)
Second Life:
Data Portraits, doppelgänger (National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2009
7UP (w. Gazira Babeli),
Priska Pasquer Gallery, 2008
RESET III AND VIRTUAL REALITY, Peertospace, 2008
RTMark (principal, Animator)
Whitney Biennial 2000, Film, Internet
Melbourne Design Bienniale 2000 (RMIT)
Works
- »NFT Buddha« 2022
- »World Without End« 2018
- »Valise in an iPod« 2006
News
03.04.2015
Tapestries? - Patrick Lichty Interviewed by Tilman Baumgärtel
Tapestries? - Patrick Lichty Interviewed by Tilman Baumgärtel
23.03.2000
Now Anyone Can Be in the Whitney Biennial
Coverage of RTMark in the Whitney Biennial 2000
Now Anyone Can Be in the Whitney Biennial
Coverage of RTMark in the Whitney Biennial 2000
19.03.1999
A Different Kind of Demonstration Software
Matt Mirapaul coverage of RTMark in the NY Times
A Different Kind of Demonstration Software
Matt Mirapaul coverage of RTMark in the NY Times
Exhibitions & Events
2009
Festival :
Publications & References
Lichty, Patrick and Yiannis Colkaides, ed. Through The Mesh Reader. 1 th ed.Limassol, Cyprus: Neme Art Center, 2022.
Lichty, Patrick. new memory rescue. 1 th ed.Alicante, Spain: Abstract Editions, 2018.
Lichty, Patrick. Variant Analyses, Interrogations of New Media Art and Culture. Theory on Demand, 1 th ed.Amsterdam: Institute of Networked Cultures, 2015.