Dr. Lindsay Caplan

Biography

Lindsay Caplan specializes in 20th and 21st century art with a focus on the intersections of art, technology, and politics. Her book, Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, Computer in 1960s Italy, examines how early computer artists in Italy utilized new technologies to probe relationships between subjects and environments, exploring human agency through artistic questions regarding medium, authorial creativity, and spectatorship. This work aims to reimagine society in the digital age. The book was awarded the Millard Meiss Publication Grant from the College Art Association and was a finalist for the Media Ecology Book Awards. Her publications are found in various exhibition catalogues and journals, including Grey Room, ARTMargins, and e-flux journal, focusing on themes like art and labor, digital humanities, and digital art history. Currently, she is co-editing a volume titled Contemporary Art in Times of Democratic Crisis, which interrogates modeling democracy in contemporary European art from the 1990s. Additionally, she is working on a book project that serves as a comparative study of artists' uses of analogies between humans and machines in reimagining creativity and collective life. Her teaching includes courses such as Art and Technology, Futurism and Hacktivism, and covers the history of modern and contemporary art. Caplan is affiliated with the Italian Studies Department at Brown University.

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