Patrick Lichty Texts

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	Manifesti
	Homily to Kennedy (2009) An Alpha Revisionist Manifesto (2001) Alpha Revisionism Revisited (2004-10) Towards a Digital Minimalism (2005 draft) Globalist Realism Manifesto
	Second Life/Virtual Worlds Essays/Missives
	Incident Bodies: Virtual Humans, Avatars, and Popular Culture (2001) WHY ART IN VIRTUAL WORLDS? E-HAPPENINGS, RELATIONAL MILIEUX & "SECOND SCULPTURE" (2008) I Know Gaz Babeli (2008) Public Art in Virtual Worlds (2009 - pending publication) Sermon From Hammering The Void (Gaz Babeli, Berlin, 2009) Angry Love Letter to an Avatar (2007) My So-Called Second Life (2007) The Apocryphal History of the Founding of Second Front (2007) A MACHINE TO DESTROY ITSELF: THE VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE SPECTACLES OF SECOND FRONT (2007) Eva/Franco Mattes: DANCING IN THE MINEFIELD OF VIRTUAL EMBODIMENT (2008) LIGHTNING ROD: SECOND FRONT, REEMERGENCE OF THE HAPPENING, AND THE INTEGRATION OF HISTORY (2009) The Translation of Art in Virtual Worlds \| Archive Second Life Micromissive 1: Craft and Maquettes (2007) Second Life Missive 1: Reply To Annabeth (2007) Second Life Missive 2: Bastard/Alien spaces and SL - based art (2007) Second Life Missive 3: The Issue of Remediation (2007) Second Life Missive 4: Art in Second Life and the Question of Audience (2007) Second Life Missive 5: Reengaging the Viscera (2007) Second Life Missive 6: Alterity and Dystopia in SL - a Response to Dissidents in SL (2007) Second Life Missive 7: Cao Fei, Virtual Flaneur (2007)
	Essays
	Applied Synnoesis: A Foundation The Mythology of Art: An Apocryphal History of Wikipedia Art Confessions of a Whitneybiennial.com Curator Art in the Age of Dataflow Sustainability Trilogy I: The 50-Year Computer/Necessary Computing Sustainability Trilogy II: Ban the Grid/Viva La Mesh Sustainability Trilogy III: The 50mW Computer Holy Fire and the Rise of New Media Art Grasping @ Bits 1.1 - Art and Intellectual Control in the Digital Age Linear Version (printable text) Metaphor and Terrain- Interface as Art Object Caught in the Grid: Towards a Digital Minimalism (draft) The Millennial Museum The Cybernetics of Performance The Role of the Later Career New Media Artist. Enabling the Disabled Voice: Issues of Disability in New Media Arts The Feng Shui of Cyberspace Virtual Spaces and Ergonomics (1997) Speaking the Multimedia Culture (1995) Reflections on Generative Installations How My Hard Drive Became a Floppy Disk: The Rise and Fall of VR in the 1990's Incident Bodies: Virtual Humans, Avatars, and Popular Culture Reconfiguring the Museum: Curation as Collaborative Model The Panic Museum: Memory and Digital Delirium in the Information Age: Exhibition and Conservation in the Digital Arts Through the 8-Ball Darkly: New Media and the Implosion of Meaning (1997) Diappearance of Histories/Histories of Disappearance: Ephemerality of the Record in Online Culture MACHINE: Mapping the Multimedia Terrain of Postmodern Society (w/J. Epstein) New Media Artist: Content or Context Provider? (Anth. Lovejoy/Paul/Vesna) Theory of the Eclectic - Presentation as Performance Towards a Historiography of New Media Towards a Culture of Ubiquity - Moving From the Screen to the Body (1999)
	Curatorial Statements
	Through The Looking Glass: Technological art and Creativity (2000) (re)distributions: Mobile Devices as Cultural Intervention (2001) Iconography: Computer Icon as Artform (2003) Mo/Pho: The Mobile Eye (2005)
	Commentaries
	On the Death of Net Art (3/31/04) Kello, Katrina! So Much for New Media Art!
	Creative Writing/Prose
	Preponderance (2004) The Corporate History of Slavery in Louisiana, 1700-2004 Angry Love Letter to an Avatar (2007) America, The Virtual (1999) Haiku 0001
	Performance Scores
	On Performance (Performed with Nathan Martin/Hacktivist)
	Reviews
	Michael Takeo Magruder - Reconcilition and Hope Mark Amerika - PHONE:ME Max Herman: Genius 2000 Video Game: Tron 2.0 New Orleans Media Experience 2003 NEWORKEXITNEWYORK (2003)
	Interviews
	Thing.net
	Dead Media Project Entries
	Working Note 21.8 Working Note 21.9

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