Margot Lovejoy

(Campbellton, Canada, 1930-2019)

Digital artist and historian of art and technology, she was a professor of visual arts at the State University of New York. Among other honors, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an International Arts Fellowship in India, several NYSCA Fellowships, the NYFA Gregory Millard Fellowship, and the 2007 CAA Award for Distinguished Art Teaching.In his research Digital Currents explored the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examined the main changes taking place in the role of the artist as a social communicator.
Pathernia is a political denunciation, a demonstration of the subversive possibility of the Internet to publish what is reviled as invisible, normal and private in the domestic relations between man and woman. The Parthenia network makes visible the silent mistreatment of women by converting an artistic proposal into an absolute and radical political proposal. It is a way of bearing witness to this situation through the archiving and de-privatization of the stories of abused women and their claim as victims of a global conflict that does not address cultures, ages or economies.

His Turns project was presented at Madrid Media Lab, a website where personal stories are collected, captured in vital maps, represented as pieces of glass that, when opened, transform into visual expressions. Users wander through the stories and can also contribute with their narratives. Seen through filters, lenses and links, each narrative is understood as a part of social memory.