{"id":19560,"date":"2026-08-12T15:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/?page_id=19560"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:25:19","slug":"patrick-lichty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/colleges\/liberal-arts\/communication-media-department\/communication-media-faculty-staff\/patrick-lichty\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Lichty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>MFA: Digital Art (virtual and augmented reality, interactive art, physical computing, and imaging) | Bowling Green State University (2006)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BSEET: Electronic Engineering Technology | University of Akron (1990)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ASEET: Electronic Engineering Technology | University of Akron (1985)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Additional study in glass and art history at Kent State University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal Statement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a media artist, writer, curator, and educator whose work investigates how technologies and systems of mediation shape perception, identity, and social reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across more than 3 decades, I have worked with virtual and augmented reality, generative artificial intelligence, interactive installation, animation, video, physical computing, networked performance, and digital fabrication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the classroom, I combine critical inquiry with hands-on experimentation, encouraging students to take creative risks, test ideas through prototyping, and understand emerging technologies not simply as tools, but as cultural systems with ethical, political, and aesthetic consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Statement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2021, I have taught Creative Digital Media at Winona State University. Previous academic appointments include Zayed University, the American University of Sharjah, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Columbia College Chicago, where I coordinated Media Theory and Emergent Practices, the Fab Lab, and the Virtual Worlds Initiative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My creative and scholarly work has appeared internationally in exhibitions and festivals including the Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale, Yokohama Triennale, and Sundance Film Festival. I co-founded the virtual performance collective Second Front, worked as an animator and associate with The Yes Men, and served for a decade as editor-in-chief of Intelligent Agent for Christiane Paul, Senior Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My current research addresses algorithmic art, artificial intelligence, immersive environments, virtual narratology, and the evolving relationship between human and machine creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses Taught<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>MCOM 172: Print and Web Production<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MCOM 202: Creativity and Innovation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MCOM 210: Visual Communication<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MCOM 271: Interactive Environments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MCOM 280: Principles of Media Literacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MCOM 305: Mass Media History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MCOM 307: Creative Digital Media Lab<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MCOM 316: Experimental Visual Communication<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MCOM 349: Advanced Audio-Video Production<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MCOM 371: Advanced Interactive Environments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact <strong>Patrick Lichty<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-block contact-card mb-1\">\n   <div class=\"contact-card__content\">\n       <div class=\"contact-card__title h4\">\n           Patrick Lichty\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__subtitle h4\">\n           Assistant Professor\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n           <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n<p>Phelps 129F<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n       <\/div>\n       <a class=\"wsu-link contact-card__link\" href=\"mailto:patrick.lichty@winona.edu\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Email Patrick Lichty<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Patrick Lichty, a professor in the Communication &amp; 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