Friday, November 18, 2022, 6pm. Center for Italian Modern Art, 421 Broome Street, 4th Fl., New York, NY 10013. General admission tickets: $15. Members & students: Free. Register for this talk. In conjunction with our current exhibition, Bruno Munari: The Child Within, CIMA is hosting a talk by Prof. Lindsay Caplan about her recently published book, Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy.

In her book, Lindsay Caplan explores how in postwar Italy, a group of visionary artists— Bruno Munari among them — used emergent computer technologies as both tools of artistic production and a means to reconceptualize the dynamic interrelation between individual freedom and collectivity. Arte Programmata traces the multifaceted practices of these groundbreaking artists and their conviction that technology could provide the conditions for a liberated social life.

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

To learn more about Prof. Lindsay Caplan, click here.

Light refreshments will be served.