Patrick Lichty is a conceptual media artist, activist, curator, and educator. Lichty is currently a Creative Digital Media professor at Winona State University.^[1]

Lichty was part of the activist collective RTMark (pronounced "art-mark").^{[2][failed verification]} Lichty was also member of RTMark's successor group The Yes Men, and is featured in the collective's first documentary.^[2]

He is a creator of digital tapestries, especially Jacquard weaving, and is noted alongside Chuck Close as a seminal contemporary artist in this genre.^[2][3] In December 2014, he had a solo exhibition of his tapestry and robotic drawing work called "Sensible Concepts: Mediation as a Way of Being".^[4][5]

He is a co-founder of Second Front, a pioneering Second Life performance art group.^[2][6]

Lichty was an associate member of the first Augmented Reality art collective.^[7]

Lichty is a noted New Media art curator, speaking at venues such as the Tate Modern,^[8] 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^[9]

• Summer School: Curatorial Masterclass (with CRUMB) (2009) ^[10]
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency (2013)
• Herb Alpert Foundation/CalArts Fellowship (Film/Video – RTMark) 2002
• Eyebeam Artist in Residence 2009
• Smithsonian American Art Museums New Media-New Century Award (2001) ^[11]

Lichty's work is in collections of The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN^{[12][better source needed]} and the Smithsonian.^[13] He also works as a curator^[14] and critic.^[15][16]

• Lichty, Patrick (2008), Paul, Christiane (ed.), "Reconfiguring Curation: Non-institutional New Media Curating and the Politics of Cultural Production", New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art, University of California, pp. 163–190, ISBN 978-0520243972{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
• Lichty, Patrick (2008), Paul, Christiane (ed.), "(re)distributions: PDA, Information Appliance, and Nomadic Arts as Cultural Intervention", New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art, University of California, pp. 207–219, ISBN 978-0520243972{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
• Lichty, Patrick (2013). Variant Analyses: Interrogations of New Media Art and Culture. Institute of Network Cultures.
• Lichty, Patrick (2015), Miura, Gianluca (ed.), "On Virtual Fluxus", Analyzing Art, Culture, and Design in the Digital Age, Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts, Cham: IGI, pp. 39–50, doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-8679-3, ISBN 978-1466686793, S2CID 55016634{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
• Lichty, Patrick (2018). new memory rescue. Abstract Editions. ISBN 978-1548371951.
• Lichty, Patrick (2014), Geroimenko, Vladimir (ed.), "The Aesthetics of Liminality: Augmentation as an Art Form", Augmented Reality Art, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 99–125, ISBN 978-3-030-42156-4{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
• Lichty, Patrick (2020), Geroimenko, Vladimir (ed.), "The Aesthetics of Liminality: Augmentation as an Art Form", Augmented Reality in Education, Springer Series on Cultural Computing, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 261–278, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06203-7_5, ISBN 978-3-319-06202-0{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
• Lichty, Patrick (February 1, 2014). The Translation of Art in Virtual Worlds. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199826162.013.027.

• Official website