MaryFlanagan
Mary Flanagan is a research-based artist whose practice(s) extend into games, design, psychology, and futures studies. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as The Guggenheim and Tate Britain, and is featured in public and private collections, including The Whitney Museum, The Museum of Fine Art Houston, and ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Germany. In 2018, Flanagan won the Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica in Interactive art+. She is the recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship, the Thoma Foundation 2018 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, and commissions with the British Arts Council and the National Academy of Sciences. She has been awarded residencies with the Brown Foundation, MacDowell, Bogliasco, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.As a scholar, Flanagan has lectured widely including at Oxford, Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, and the Sorbonne and has been a John Paul Getty Museum Scholar, a Senior Scholar in Residence at the Cornell Society for the Humanities, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. In 2016 she was honored as a ‘Vanguard’ from Games for Change and received an Honoris Causa in Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and in 2019 named a Distinguished Scholar by the Digital Games Research Association. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. With five scholarly books, over fifty essays and chapters, arts books and a collection of poetry to her credit, Flanagan was invited as a cultural leader to the 2018 World Economic Forum at Davos. She is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College and leads the design research laboratory Tiltfactor.org.