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Lindsay Caplan is an Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. Her research focuses on intersections of art, technology, and politics, particularly in modern and contemporary contexts. She holds a PhD from the City University of New York (2017) and has taught courses including Art and Technology from Futurism to Hacktivism and Contemporary Art. Her first book, Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy (2022), explores early computer art in Italy and its societal implications. She co-edits a volume on democratic crisis in European art and is affiliated with Brown’s Italian Studies Department.
Her work has been supported by grants from the College Art Association and European institutions like the Beckett Foundation. Notable awards include the Media Ecology Book Awards Finalist recognition. Caplan’s research spans topics such as generative art, digital humanities, and feminist critique, with publications in Grey Room, ARTMargins, and Art in America. She is currently developing a comparative study of artists using human-machine analogies to reimagine creativity and collective life.
Teaching affiliations include the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, where she co-taught Form and Formalism with a mathematics professor. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges art history with critical theory, cybernetics, and social justice themes.
