Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy. A book presentation with author Lindsay Caplan

Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy. A book presentation with author Lindsay Caplan

November 18, 2022

06:00 PM – 07:00 PM

Standard Admission Ticket: $15 Associates & College students: Free

In conjunction with our present exhibition Bruno Munari: The Child Inside, CIMA is internet hosting a speak by Prof. Lindsay Caplan about her a short while ago published e book, Arte Programmata: Liberty, Manage, and the Pc in 1960s Italy.

In her guide, Lindsay Capalan explores how in postwar Italy, a team of visionary artists— Bruno Munari amid them — employed emergent laptop or computer technologies as both applications of creative output and a implies to reconceptualize the dynamic interrelation among particular person independence and collectivity. Arte Programmata traces the multifaceted practices of these groundbreaking artists and their conviction that technology could provide the circumstances for a liberated social lifestyle.

Prof. Caplan will be in conversation with CIMA Fellows Margaret Scarborough and Giulia Zompa.

Gentle refreshments will be served.

Lindsay Caplan is Assistant Professor of Present day and Modern day Art at Brown University. Before becoming a member of Brown, she taught at the Rhode Island School of Layout, Eugene Lang University, University of Visible Arts, Parsons, Metropolis University of New York, and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Exploration. She has been given fellowships from The Heart of the Humanities at The CUNY Graduate Centre (2010-14) and the American Council for Acquired Societies (2015-16). From 2010 to 2011, she was a Significant Experiments participant in the Whitney Museum Unbiased Examine Method. Her writing has appeared in journals this kind of as Grey Home, ARTMargins, e-flux, The Scholar and Feminist On the internet, and Art in The united states, as perfectly as edited collections and exhibition catalogues. Her book Arte Programmata: Independence, Regulate, and the Laptop or computer in 1960s Italy received a Millard Meiss Publication Grant from the School Art Association and was lately published by the University of Minnesota Press (October 2022).

Public Programming at CIMA is manufactured attainable with the generous help of Tiro a Segno Foundation.

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