# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marie-jo-lafontaine
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:39:03.800Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marie-jo-lafontaine"
name: "Marie-Jo Lafontaine"
slug: "marie-jo-lafontaine"
description: "Marie-Jo Lafontaine was a Belgian sculptor and video artist. She lived and worked as a Professor of Media Arts at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Brussels."
tagline: "Belgian artist (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_Marie-Jo_Lafontaine.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-11-17"
deathDate: "2026-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.4
  momentum:             10
  historical:           7.124201333333334
  currentAttention:     0.68
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.marie-jo-lafontaine.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jo_Lafontaine"
    title: "Marie-Jo Lafontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%DA%86%D9%88_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "مارى چو لافونتاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jo_Lafontaine"
    title: "Marie-Jo Lafontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jo_Lafontaine"
    title: "Marie-Jo Lafontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jo_Lafontaine"
    title: "Marie-Jo Lafontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jo_Lafontaine"
    title: "Marie-Jo Lafontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jo_Lafontaine"
    title: "Marie-Jo Lafontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445973"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump