Patrick Lichty is a conceptual media artist, activist, curator, and educator. Lichty is currently a Creative Digital Media professor at

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Artwork

Lichty was part of the activist collective

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(pronounced "art-mark"). Lichty was also member of RTMark's successor group

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, and is featured in the collective's first documentary. He is a creator of digital tapestries, especially Jacquard weaving, and is noted alongside Chuck Close as a seminal contemporary artist in this genre. In December 2014, he had a solo exhibition of his tapestry and robotic drawing work called "Sensible Concepts: Mediation as a Way of Being". He is a co-founder of Second Front, a pioneering

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performance art group. Lichty was an associate member of the first Augmented Reality art collective.

New Media Curation

Lichty is a noted New Media art curator, speaking at venues such as the

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, and is published in the book, New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for

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, edited by

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digital curator,

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. In December 2021, Lichty curated Through the Mesh: Media, Borders, and Firewalls at the NeMe Art Center in

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Residencies, recognition, and awards

* Summer School: Curatorial Masterclass (with CRUMB) (2009) * Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency (2013) * Herb Alpert Foundation/CalArts Fellowship (Film/Video – RTMark) 2002 * Eyebeam Artist in Residence 2009 * Smithsonian American Art Museums New Media-New Century Award (2001)

Collections/Galleries

Lichty's work is in collections of

The Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the U.S.: together with ...

, Minneapolis, MN and the Smithsonian. He also works as a curator and critic.

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lichty, Patrick Artists from Ohio Living people Mass media theorists American new media artists Internet art Critical theorists Bowling Green State University alumni 1962 births Techspressionist artists