Margot Lovejoy (21 October 1930 – 1 August 2019)[1] 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.

Lovejoy was the recipient of a 1987[2] Guggenheim Fellowship and a 1994 Arts International Grant in India.

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.

She demonstrated that just as the rise of photographic techniques in the mid-19th century shattered traditional views about representation, so too have contemporary electronic tools catalyzed new perspectives on art, affecting the way artists see, think, and work, and the ways in which their productions are distributed and communicated.