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Patrick Lichty

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

Lichty was part of the activist collective RTMark (pronounced "art-mark").[failed verification] Lichty was also member of RTMark's successor group The Yes Men, 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 Second Life performance art group.

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

Lichty is a noted New Media art curator, speaking at venues such as the Tate Modern, and is published in the book, New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art, edited by Whitney Museum of American Art digital curator, Christiane Paul.

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

Lichty's work is in collections of The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN[better source needed] and the Smithsonian. He also works as a curator and critic.

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