[-empyre-] Patrick Lichty on Participatory Art: New Media and the Archival Trace

[rtf9 at cornell.edu]

>We are happy to to present Patrick Lichty's thoughts on the archival
>trace in participatory net culture. You will recall that we have 
>invited a few special guests to consider our subject of this month, 
>Paticipatory Art: New Media and the Archival Trace.
>
>From: "patrick lichty" <voyd at voyd.com>
>
>Participatory Art:
>The online world is one that is increasingly asking us to be more
>"involved".  Social networking sites like Facebook, and user created worlds
>like Second Life are becoming a primary locus of New Media practice.
>Placing these cultural milieu in the context of historical frames such as
>the "Happening", Fluxus, environmental theatre, and juxtaposing this with
>contemporary tropes such as relationalism, how do the shifts and flows of
>cultural engagement create critical spces to be explored?
>
>For this month, I would like to discuss the past three years as one of the
>leaders of the largest/oldest virtual worlds Performance Art group, Second
>Front, an upcoming installation at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art,
>called "Summer of Love 2.0", and thoughts for an upcoming discussion on
>curating art in the public sphere at Eyebeam in NYC.
>
>
>Bio
>Patrick Lichty (b.1962)  is a technologically-based conceptual artist,
>writer, independent curator, animator for the activist group, The Yes Men,
>and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. He began showing
>technological media art in 1989, and deals with works and writing that
>explore the social relations between us and media. Venues in which Lichty
>has been involved with solo and collaborative works include the Whitney &
>Turin Biennials, Maribor Triennial, Performa Performance Biennial, Ars
>Electronica, and the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA).
>
>He also works extensively with virtual worlds, including Second Life, and
>his work, both solo and with his performance art group, Second Front, has
>been featured in Flash Art, Eikon Milan, and ArtNews.
>
>He is also an Assistant Professor of Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia
>College Chicago, and resides in Baton Rouge, LA.
>
>--
>Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
>Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space
>Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
>Cornell University
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Renate Ferro
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Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
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