'Patrick Lichty 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. A notable MFA alumnus of Bowling Green State University, Lichty is one of the elusive members of The Yes Men and . Lichty joined RTMark in 1997. RTMark, engaged in various corporate and institutional activist hacking projects, mimicking the verbiage and aesthetics of their corporate targets.
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 or Commodifying the Antagonistic In 2002 RTMark was invited to the Whitney Biennial and was awarded a Herb Alpert/Calarts Award. In keeping with their subversive ethos, RTMark then hacked their own Whitney Biennial project. Lichty describes the experience in Confessions of a Whitneybiennial.com Curator. ARTMark later became the group known as The Yes Men. Lichty is credited with playing himself in the movie Yes Men. See a picture at Getty Images.
Digital tapestry
He is a pioneer in the creation of digital tapestries, in particular, Jacquard weaving. In December 2014, he had a solo exhibition of his tapestry and robotic drawing work called "Sensible Concepts: Mediation as a Way of Being"
In addition, he has produced cutting edge work and scholarship in the emerging areas of augmented and virtual reality. He is a co-founder of Second Front, a pioneering Second Life performance art group.
Collections and publications
Lichty's work is in collections from The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN to the Smithsonian. He also works as a curator and critic. He is the author of "Variant analyses: interrogations of new media art and culture." published in 2013 by the institute of network cultures.
