Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Lindsay Caplan is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture. She is a modern and contemporary art historian whose research and teaching focus on the intersections of art, technology, and politics. She is the author of Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). Other writing has appeared in exhibition catalogs, edited collections, and journals such as Grey Room, ARTMargins, Art Journal, Piano B, The Scholar & Feminist Online, Outland, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and e-flux. She is currently working on two books: a co-edited volume (with Kerry Greaves, University of Copenhagen) titled “Model Collapse: Contemporary European Art at a Time of Democratic Crisis” (University of Manchester Press, forthcoming 2025), and a second book project, which she will be pursuing at the Cogut Institute, which is a comparative study of artists who use analogies between humans and machines to reimagine creativity and collective life. Looking at Europe and the Americas from the ’50s to the ’80s, the project charts a history in which radically destabilized notions of the human were forged at the intersections of art and technology.