Patrick Lichty is a technological artist, writer, curator, educator, and activist who has investigated
how media shapes how humanity perceives reality. Lichty is known for his solo work, collaborations with his partner Negin Ehtesabian, and collective work as part of the activist groups RTMark, The Yes Men, principal of the virtual performance group Second Front, and collaborator with Pocha Nostra, Critical Art Ensemble, Terminal Time, Morehshin Allahyari, Cao Fei, and Techspressionism.com. He has an MFA in Computer Art from Bowling Green State University, is a Herb Alpert/Calarts Fellow, recipient of the New Century/New Media award from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and has a Golden Nica Honorable Mention from Ars Electronica. He has also been featured in the Whitney, Venice, Maribor, Yokohama art, and Melbourne Design biennials and shown in the Sundance, Berlin, and Melbourne film festivals. As a writer/editor, Lichty edited the New Media Journal Intelligent Agent for ten years, published by Whitney Digital Art Curator Christiane Paul. He is also published with numerous presses, including MIT, Oxford, and Blackwell. He has books/chapters with the Institute for Networked Culture in Amsterdam. He is an assistant professor of Creative Digital Media at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota.