November 18, 2022
06:00 PM – 07:00 PM
Typical Admission Ticket: $15 Members & Pupils: Totally free
In conjunction with our present exhibition Bruno Munari: The Baby Inside of, CIMA is internet hosting a speak by Prof. Lindsay Caplan about her not long ago released guide, Arte Programmata: Flexibility, Manage, and the Laptop or computer in 1960s Italy.
In her reserve, Lindsay Caplan explores how in postwar Italy, a team of visionary artists— Bruno Munari among the them — utilized emergent laptop systems as both of those instruments of inventive production and a implies to reconceptualize the dynamic interrelation in between particular person liberty and collectivity. Arte Programmata traces the multifaceted procedures of these groundbreaking artists and their conviction that engineering could offer the circumstances for a liberated social lifetime.
Prof. Caplan will be in dialogue with CIMA Fellows Margaret Scarborough and Giulia Zompa.
Gentle refreshments will be served.
Lindsay Caplan is Assistant Professor of Modern-day and Present-day Artwork at Brown University. Before becoming a member of Brown, she taught at the Rhode Island College of Style and design, Eugene Lang Faculty, College of Visible Arts, Parsons, Metropolis University of New York, and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Investigate. She has received fellowships from The Centre of the Humanities at The CUNY Graduate Middle (2010-14) and the American Council for Uncovered Societies (2015-16). From 2010 to 2011, she was a Essential Studies participant in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Software. Her composing has appeared in journals such as Grey Place, ARTMargins, e-flux, The Scholar and Feminist On-line, and Art in The united states, as very well as edited collections and exhibition catalogues. Her book Arte Programmata: Liberty, Regulate, and the Computer in 1960s Italy received a Millard Meiss Publication Grant from the College or university Art Affiliation and was just lately released by the University of Minnesota Press (October 2022).
Public Programming at CIMA is produced possible with the generous aid of Tiro a Segno Foundation.