Patrick Lichty
media artist, writer, curator, designer and educator working with mediated reality, tactical media, virtual worlds, AI, textile and digital culture.
Biography
Patrick Lichty is a media artist, writer, curator and designer whose work has investigated technology, perception and culture for more than thirty years. Born in Northeast Ohio in 1962 and raised on art, technology and science fiction, he studied electronic engineering before moving fully into media art, design, writing and curation.
His work has taken the form of animation, tactical media, hypertext, interactive documentary, virtual performance, low-resolution photography, Jacquard tapestry, machine drawing, augmented reality, VR, AI, books, installations and collaborative projects. He has worked with or in relation to collectives including Haymarket RIOT, RTMark, The Yes Men, Second Front, Manifest.AR and NPTProjects.
Lichty was editor-in-chief of Intelligent Agent for a decade and is the author of Variant Analyses: Interrogations of New Media Art and Culture. He teaches creative digital media and continues to make work about mediation, authorship, belief, synthetic culture and the materiality of digital systems.
Practice
Media art, writing, curation, tactical media, virtual performance, tapestry, AR, AI and teaching.
Collaborative work
NPTProjects with Negin Ehtesabian, including Googled Earth, House on the Water and related video/textile/performance works.
Teaching
Creative digital media, interactive environments, animation, media literacy, experimental visual communication and emerging media practice.