Margot Lovejoy

Margot Lovejoy is Professor of Visual Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase and author of "Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age " (2004). Amongst other honors, she is recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Arts International Grant in India. As an artist using technology to expand the concept of art as communication, she has been committed since 1992 to engage audiences in direct interactive experiences through installation works, bookworks, and websites. Her many exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Modern Art, P.S.#1 Contemporary Art Center; Queens Museum of Art; Neuberger Museum of Art amongst others. Her 1995 website Parthenia has been archived by the Walker Art Center as part of the pioneering adaweb.com site. TURNS, www.myturningpoint.com was featured in the Whitney Museum’s ARTPORT as well as the 2002 Whitney Biennial and was included in the inaugural exhibition of the Institute for Contemporary Art, Taiwan. Since then, it has been featured in major exhibitions in Germany, Spain and France. Apart from authoring numerous essays in various journals, and catalogs, she has also been an invited speaker at conferences on art and technology internationally.