Tapestries? - Patrick Lichty Interviewed by Tilman Baumgärtel

Tapestries? - Patrick Lichty Interviewed by Tilman Baumgärtel

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The American artist Patrick Lichty is best-known for his works with digital media: as part of the activist group RT Mark and as designer of digital animation movies for their follow-up The Yes Men, he has been recognized as a net artist with a political bend. He has been working with digital media since the 1980s, and has created works with video, for the Web and for Second Life.

At the moment, Lichty has a solo show “Artifacts” at DAM Galerie in Berlin (http://bit.ly/1DTNvt9).

However, the artist, who is teaching at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and has recently published a book of theoretical essays on Networked Cultures (http://bit.ly/1aLdAB6), is not showing media works, but tapestries. Tapestries! What's going on? Tilman Baumgärtel finds out.