Margot Lovejoy

Margot Lovejoy (21 October 1930 – 1 August 2019) was a digital artist and historian of art and technology. She was Professor Emerita of Visual Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase. She was the author of Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age. Lovejoy was the recipient of a 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 1994 Arts International Grant in India. Lovejoy followed on the research of Frank Popper, Jack Burnham and Gene Youngblood by documenting the historical record of the relationship between technology and art as culminating in digital art. Lovejoy recounted the early histories of electronic media for art making (video, computer art, the Internet) by providing a context for the works of major artists in each media, describing their projects, and discussing the issues and theoretical implications of each to create a foundation for understanding this developing field of digital art. as part adaweb.com and her website TURNS was featured in the 2002 Whitney Museum Biennial. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Publications Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media Labyrinth (1991) The Book of Plagues (1995) Paradoxic mutations Manifestations

Awards 1987: Guggenheim Fellowship P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Queens Museum of Art, New York Neuberger Museum of Art, New York Stamford Museum, New York Islip Museum, New York