Patrick Lichty

Patrick Lichty, born 1962, Akron, Ohio, has a M.FA. in Digital Art from Bowling Green University, a B.S in Electronic Engineering from the University of Akron, and is a Professor of Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago. Lichty is a technologically based conceptual artist, writer, independent curator, animator for the activist group, The Yes Men, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. His work spans over 15 years, deals with media narrative/criticism and information aesthetics in many different contexts. He works in diverse technological media, including painting, printmaking, kinetics, video, generative music, and neon. Lichty has shown his solo and collaborative works at Tate London, Smithsonian American Art Museum, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Center, as well as the Whitney, Torino, and Venice Biennales. He is currently in post-production on the upcoming Yes Men II movie, and has video works in the new Video Data Bank anthology released by Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Border Classicos. He resides in Chicago and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Arbeitchen, 2007, Hacked Nike ID Shoes

Border Patrol, 2007, Second Life Performance

Man Michinaga, 2007, Second Life Avatar

Zen for Bots: Pattern Recognition 4, 2007, Robotic Sumi-A and hand calligraphy