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Margot Lovejoy

Professor Emerita of Art+Design

(1930–2019)

Margot Lovejoy’s media art includes video, installation, and internet projects that have been widely exhibited. She is author of Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age (Routledge, 2004) and editor of Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (2011). Among other honors, she is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Arts International Grant in India, several NYSCA grants, NYFA’s Gregory Millard Fellowship, and the 2007 CAA Award for Distinguished Teaching of Art. She has also been a speaker at conferences on art and technology internationally.

Lovejoy’s pioneering website Parthenia (1995) has been archived as part of adaweb.com and was exhibited at the Reina Sofia Museum and the Castello Museum, Spain. She was commissioned to create a work for the Whitney Museum’s Artport in 2001, and her project Turns was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. An installation aspect of the Turns project was included in the Institute for Contemporary Art inaugural in Taiwan in 2001 and featured in major exhibitions in Germany (ZKM), Spain (Madrid Media Lab and Laboral Center), and at the Queens Museum, New York City. The installation of the Confess project was exhibited at the Neuberger Museum of Art in 2009 and at the Stephan Stoyanov Gallery in 2011.