Patrick Lichty
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Chicago Illinois USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
Patrick Lichty is a technologically-based intermedia artist, writer, activist, and independent curator living in Baton Rouge who has explored the effects of mass media and technology for over a decade and a half. Since the early nineties when he hacked academic culture with the Haymarket Riot video series, Lichty has been questioning culture from the Whitney Biennial to the ToyWar of 2000 to the WTO spoofs of the YesMen to the inverted rhetoric of the US Dept. of Art & Technology. Besides his vocal activist bent, his writings have covered everything from marketing hype to curating electronic art, which has been published internationally. But after 9/11 Lichty has felt that American culture has dove headlong into the ridiculous from media spin to rampant commercialism, thus spawning equally ridiculous works like 8 Bits or less, shot entirely on a Casio WristCam and accompanied by a hacked Ninendo Gameboy. Often polemic, sometimes aesthetic, Lichty takes unexpected turns with culture and technology that are, if nothing else, entertaining. In addition to his various art endeavors, he is also Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine, a NYC-based electronic art and culture magazine published in partnership with Christiane Paul, New Media Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and is a guiding member of several collectives, arts organizations and philanthropic foundations. References to the Artist's Work Patrick's full activities, essays, and artwork synopses may be found on his website www.voyd.com Patrick Lichty is a prolific writer and solo artist producing video and film works, visual art, essays on society and technology, and music. He has also collaborated with numerous online activist collectives, including RTMark and the Yes Men. Filmography/Awards Info: This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
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