Patrick Lichty is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, and curator for over 15 years, and graduate of The University of Akron. Lichty’s work includes video, digital media, print and installations that deal with political and social issues of contemporary media and technological culture. Currently, he is best known as the computer animator for the activist art group, The Yes Men, and as Editor-in-Chief for Intelligent Agent, a New Media arts journal published in cooperation with Christiane Paul, Adjunct Digital Arts Curator for the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC.
Lichty’s work has been exhibited worldwide at such venues such as Ars Electronica and the International Symposium of Electronic Arts as well as the Whitney, Torino, Melbourne, and Maribor Biennales. Lichty was born and raised in the Akron/Canton area, and his 2000 Smithsonian work, “SPRAWL: The American Landscape in Transition” spotlights the encroachment of urban sprawl in northeast Ohio.
SUMMARY: Patrick Lichty to speak at Myers School of Art, on Fri., March 24 – “Confessions of a Culture Hacker: Probes, Pranks, and Investigations”
WHAT: Patrick Lichty describes himself as a “technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, and curator”. On Friday, Mar. 24, 2006, Lichty will visit the Myers School of Art to deliver his lecture: Confessions of a Culture Hacker: Probes, Pranks, and Investigations. Lichty’s better known media pranks as animator for RTMark and The Yes Men use mass-media production techniques to help create an air of believability for bombastic concepts which mirror the artist’s view of the equally ridiculous practices of the corporate interests he parodies.
In 2000, Lichty won the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s New Media/New Century Award for SPRAWL: The American Landscape in Transition, in which he created an online multimedia documentary examining the issues of urban sprawl in Northeast Ohio (image available). Currently he is creating a large sculptural work that examines tensions caused by today’s society of surveillance, codes and information hidden by technology, and formal nature of digital art itself.
WHEN: Friday, March 24, 2006, 6 p.m.
WHERE: Folk Hall auditorium, Myers School of Art, The University of Akron, 150 E. Exchange St., Akron, OH
ETC. Lichty’s work has been exhibited worldwide at such venues such as Ars Electronica and the International Symposium of Electronic Arts as well as the Whitney, Torino, Melbourne, and Maribor Biennales. Lichty was born and raised in the Akron/Canton area, and is a graduate of The University of Akron. The program is part of the Myers Artist in Residence series, and is free and open to the public – seating is limited.
