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In conjunction with ICA Miami’s exhibition “Miriam Schapiro: 1967–1972,” art historian Lindsay Caplan will present original scholarship on this crucial period of Schapiro’s practice, featuring the artist’s brief but formative work with computers. Unpack the significance of Schapiro’s two years of computer-artmaking in a career that spanned decades with Caplan as she elaborates on the radical feminist concerns that pervaded much of early computer art.
With a concise selection of paintings, ICA Miami’s exhibition “Miriam Schapiro: 1967–1972” illustrates Schapiro’s movement from hard-edge geometric abstraction to her gendered, anthropomorphic “central core imagery” and sees her lay the groundwork for her explorations of collage and craft within the Pattern and Decoration movement. Integral to this development was Schapiro’s pioneering work exploring early digital image production technologies.
Lindsay Caplan is Andrea V. Rosenthal Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Brown University, where she writes and teaches about the relationship between art, technology, and politics. She is the author of Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy (Minnesota, 2022) and co-editor of Model Collapse: European Contemporary Art in a Time of Democratic Crisis (Manchester, 2026).
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In conjunction with ICA Miami’s exhibition “Miriam Schapiro: 1967–1972,” art historian Lindsay Caplan will present original scholarship on this crucial period of Schapiro’s practice, featuring the artist’s brief but formative work with computers. Unpack the significance of Schapiro’s two years of computer-artmaking in a career that spanned decades with Caplan as she elaborates on the radical feminist concerns that pervaded much of early computer art.
With a concise selection of paintings, ICA Miami’s exhibition “Miriam Schapiro: 1967–1972” illustrates Schapiro’s movement from hard-edge geometric abstraction to her gendered, anthropomorphic “central core imagery” and sees her lay the groundwork for her explorations of collage and craft within the Pattern and Decoration movement. Integral to this development was Schapiro’s pioneering work exploring early digital image production technologies.
Lindsay Caplan is Andrea V. Rosenthal Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Brown University, where she writes and teaches about the relationship between art, technology, and politics. She is the author of Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy (Minnesota, 2022) and co-editor of Model Collapse: European Contemporary Art in a Time of Democratic Crisis (Manchester, 2026).
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