Margaret Dolinsky


Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Indiana University

ISEA Bio(s) Available:


  • ISEA2012

    Margaret Dolinsky, Ph.D. Associate Professor, School of Fine Arts, Area Head, Digital Art, Senior Research Scientist, Pervasive Technology Institute, Faculty, Cognitive Science Program, Fellow, Institute of the Digital Arts and Humanities, Fellow, Center for Integrative Photographic Studies, Indiana University, USA

    ISEA2011

    Mar­garet Dolin­sky is an As­so­ci­ate Pro­fes­sor at the Hope School of Fine Arts and a Re­search Sci­en­tist with the Per­va­sive Tech­nol­ogy In­sti­tute and a Fel­low with the In­sti­tute for Dig­i­tal Arts and Hu­man­i­ties at In­di­ana Uni­ver­sity in Bloom­ing­ton.  ??Dolin­sky has been work­ing with vir­tual en­vi­ron­ments since 1995, cre­at­ing in­ter­ac­tive art ex­pe­ri­ences that have been ex­hib­ited at SIG­GRAPH, Ars Elec­tron­ica, ICC in Tokyo, and the Walker Art Cen­ter. She was com­mis­sioned by the In­di­anapo­lis Mu­seum of Art to cre­ate “Cab­i­net of Dreams” a VR ex­pe­ri­ence of Chi­nese an­tiq­ui­ties. She has just re­turned from China where she ex­hib­ited her lat­est piece “Emotable Por­traits.” She co-pro­duced and de­signed in­ter­ac­tive video for the Amer­i­can Opera The­ater’s pro­duc­tion “An­nun­ci­a­tion + Vis­i­ta­tion: Op­er­atic Pro­jec­tions of her sex­ual in­sight.” Her re­cent work in­volves dig­i­tal pro­jec­tions for opera and ex­per­i­men­tal film. Her re­search fo­cuses on how dig­i­tal art pro­vokes shifts in per­cep­tion and en­hances sen­sory aware­ness. Ex­hi­bi­tions in­clude SIG­GRAPH, Ars Elec­tron­ica, ICC, and the Walker Art Cen­ter USA. Her work is pub­lished in Leonardo, Dis­cover, Com­puter Graph­ics World, US News and World Re­port and ACM’s Com­puter Graph­ics. Lec­tures in­clude Ts­inghua Uni­ver­sity (China), Ciber@rts Bil­boa (Spain), Sen­so­r­ial Net (Brazil), BEAP (Aus­tralia), and ISEA2000 (France). She re­ceived an MFA from Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois at Chicago. She is an As­so­ci­ate Pro­fes­sor and Re­search Sci­en­tist at the H.R. Hope School of Fine Arts at In­di­ana Uni­ver­sity Bloom­ing­ton and a re­searcher with the Plan­e­tary Col­legium at the Uni­ver­sity of Ply­mouth, U.K.  Dolin­sky is co-chair of the IST & SPIE En­gi­neer­ing Re­al­ity of Vir­tual Re­al­ity con­fer­ence with Ian Mc­Dowall.

    ISEA2000

    Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, Bloomington. Margaret Dolinsky is a research scientist.  She designs real-time art experiences for the CAVE. Her work is installed at the Ars Electronica Center and shown during the 96 et 99 festivals. Recently the networked version of Blue Window Pane exhibited at INET2 in Japan and Super Computing 2000 in Texas. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Last Known Location:


  • Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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