Patrick Lichty
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2016
Media artist, Curator, Animator and Writer.
ISEA2011
Patrick Lichty is a media artist, writer, independent curator, animator for the activist group The Yes Men, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent magazine. He began showing technological media art in 1989, and deals with works and writing that explore the social relations between us and media. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and collaborative works include the Whitney & Turin Biennials, Maribor Triennial, Performa Performance Biennial, Ars Electronica, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA). He also works extensively with virtual worlds, including Second Life, and his work, both solo and with his performance art group, Second Front, has been featured in Flash Art, Eikon Milan, and ArtNews. He is also an Assistant Professor of Media Theory and Experimental Genres at Columbia College Chicago, USA.
ISEA2002
Patrick Lichty is a technologically-based intermedia artist, writer, independent curator, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. His work spans over 15 years, dealing with the social and representational issues of technological media and the impact of technology on the self, society and culture through intervention and literature. He works in diverse technological media, including printmaking, kinetics, video, generative music, and neon. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and collaborative works include the Whitney and Venice Bienniales as well as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA).
ISEA2000
Media artist and theorist. He works in a variety of media, has collaborated with SITO.org and RTMark, and published in CTHEORY, frAme, and LEONARDO. His recent work is for the Walker Art Center entitled Grasping at Bits.
ISEA1997
Patrick Lichty is an artist/writer and creative partner with Lichty Studios. Was born in 1962 in Akron, Ohio to a family of artists, he studied Electronic Engineering with an emphasis in Studio Art at the University of Akron, and received a Baccalaureate Degree in 1990. Studied post-baccalaureate Glass and Art History at Kent State University. Completed apprenticeship at Johnson Glass Studio in Canton, Ohio. Continuing independent studies since 1986 in postmodern Social Theory, Contemporary Art, Sociology, and Cultural Studies.
Exhibits include the Fractal Design Art expo, Frankfurt (Germany) Cybernetic Arts Festival, Wirehead Virtual Media Gallery (CD-ROM), and the New York Digital Salon. Recent conference presentations include the American Society for Theatre Research, American Sociological Association, Popular Culture Association, Microchips to Mass Media Conference (Plenary speaker, DePaul Univ.), and Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism. Publications include numerous cyberculture journals including ****collapse, CTHEORY, and SPEED.
He has taught seminars on art, social theory, and technology institutions including MCAD, Univ. of Minnesota, and Kent State University. Lichty is part of Bruce Sterling’s Dead Media Project, the Haymarket RIOT Performance project, and the SITU online art collaborative. Studies classical Japanese flute music in his spare time.
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The Voice of Control / The Engines ...
Categories: [Performances] [Theatrical Performance] [Animation]
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8 Bits or Less
Categories: [Video Art]
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An Introduction to the ISEA2006 Papers Proceedings
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Title: “Convergence” at the Nexus of Technology, Digital Aesthetics, and Social Theory
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Title: The Panic Museum: Memory and Digital Alzheimer’s in the Information Age – Exhibition and Conservation in the Digital Arts
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ISEA98
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Title: Virtual Spaces and Ergonomics: The Feng Shui of Cyberspace
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Title: An Interrogation of Space
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Title: Artifacting New Media: Towards a Historiography of New Media
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Title: Network Culture, Media Art: Urban Identity and Cultural Change Dialectics
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ISEA2011
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Title: Noise and Translation: Remapping Habitus Across the US/Turkey Border
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Title: Phantom Limbs: Affect and Virtuality
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Title: Revivication of an (un)Dead Medium: Experiments in Slow Scan Television and the Open Source SSTV Art Archive
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ISEA2015
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Title: The Revival of Slow Scan Television Art and the SSTV Open Archive
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ISEA2016
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Title: The Practice of New Media Art: Sentience, Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness?
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ISEA2020
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Title: AIwriting: Relations Between Image Generation and Digital Writing
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- 2011 Overview: Virtual Doppelgangers: Embodiment, Morphogenesis, and Transversal Action
- 2011 Overview: Short:Circuit: Cross Border Communications in New Media Between US and Turkey