Margot Lovejoy

1930–2019

Margot Lovejoy (1930–2019) used new technologies in her installations, artist’s books, and websites to open a discourse on the ways the internet was changing notions of the individual in a social context. Her first website parthenia.com (1995), a monument to victims of domestic violence, was archived by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as part of the pioneering site äda ’web. A professor of visual arts at the State University of New York at Purchase, she was the author of Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media (first published 1989); and the recipient of a 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 1994 Arts International Grant in India. She exhibited internationally, including many solo presentations in and around New York at MoMA PS1; the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island; the Alternative Museum (1975–2000); the Queens Museum; the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase; and the Islip Art Museum (1985–2020).

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Introduction

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.