patrick lichty

Member Since August 18, 2010

Website:www.voyd.com/

Patrick Lichty (b.1962) is a technologically-based conceptual 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 the Electronic Arts (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.
This, when paired with Orit Gat's piece on criticism strike a real chord with me. Ever since the mid-2000's, I've felt an uneasy tectonic shift in regard to media art ...
This is a really hard one, I agree. Agree with most of these, and I'll excuse myself from projects that I'm personally involved in like Second Front or The Yes ...
1985. Student Assistant UNIX Systems Admin for the Engineering Computer Graphics Facility for the University of Akron, tending a 16- node HP 5000 workstation cluster. No Web. Just Usenet, Bitnet ...
That's really wonderfully put, Tom. It's funny; I think that in mid 2000's we didn't see eye to eye a lot of the time, but I've come to really enjoy ...
And I LOVE people like Ben Vida who are mashing modular synthesis with digital processing. That's such a problem to explain when trying to frame the work in certain ways ...
All good, up to - " Just because there's no buzzword doesn't mean people are flailing. "

My problem is that people seem to be endlessly coming up with buzzwords for ...
"Well, that may be true, but there were some good points made…"

Replace with:
"Well, that may be false, but there were some good points made…"
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Maybe this takes me back to Adorno and the idea that art should be somehow committed, especially in this age of atrocity. But have we instead climbed into Stimpy's ...
I'm finding all kinds of interesting tidbits in this thread - like looking at rings in a tree. Michael Connor was talking with me once about participating in an "inter-generational" conversation ...
With deference to Michael and Caitlin,
What I see here as the issue that I am hashing out is what I call (satirically) a move into a "post-discursive" or "Post-Scholastic" ...
April 24 2013 12:01 on Breaking the Ice

I love the fact that people have locked onto Curt's quote, "too much to lose/ not enough at stake" as if today's artists cower before the curators and critics while ...
April 23 2013 21:41 on Breaking the Ice

Michael, I'll take you up on that. And for lack of more time, glad to have you on.
April 23 2013 17:26 on Breaking the Ice

Michael,
I echo everyone else's appreciation for your post, and as a mid-90's Rhizomer and rabid poster, I remember hanging out at the Spring offices in SoHo with Mark and ...
Sept. 25 2011 17:52 on Rhizome at ISEA 2011

Sorry to have missed you, Nick. It was a fast, furious time.
Aug. 18 2010 14:21 on Required Reading

No. Social media did NOT start in 2000, or 97 or whenever facebook or blogger started. This is the discursive fallacy of the fourth generation of electronic artists; i.e ...