Patrick Lichty

RTMark was responsible for subversive media projects such as the Barbie Liberation Organization Barbie Liberation Organization, the SimCopter Hack RTMark, and others. The group's motivations are discussed in Life Imitates RTMark (per se) or Commodifying the Antagonistic[2] In 2002 RTMark was invited to the Whitney Biennial [3] and was awarded a Herb Alpert/Calarts Award.[4][5] In keeping with their subversive ethos, RTMark then hacked their own Whitney Biennial project.[6] Lichty describes the experience in Confessions of a Whitneybiennial.com Curator.[7] ARTMark later became the group known as The Yes Men. Lichty is credited with playing himself in the movie Yes Men.[8] See a picture at Getty Images.[9]

He is a pioneer in the creation of digital tapestries,[10][11] in particular, Jacquard weaving.[12][13][14][15] In December 2014, he had a solo exhibition of his tapestry and robotic drawing work called "Sensible Concepts: Mediation as a Way of Being" [16][17][18]

In addition, he has produced cutting edge work and scholarship in the emerging areas of augmented and virtual reality.[19][20][21] He is a co-founder of Second Front, a pioneering Second Life performance art group.[22]

Lichty's work is in collections from The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN[23] to the Smithsonian.[24] He also works as a curator [25][26][27] and critic.[28] He is the author of "Variant analyses: interrogations of new media art and culture." [29] published in 2013 by the institute of network cultures.[30]

• Website: http://patricklichty.com/
• Website: http://voyd.com/
• Second Front: http://www.secondfront.org