ICA Ideas: Lindsay Caplan – Beyond Xs and Os: Miriam Schapiro’s Computer Art

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.

You may also like the following events from Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami:

• This Saturday, 20th September, 02:00 pm, Olga de Amaral: ICA Miami Symposium in Miami
• Next Sunday, 28th September, 01:00 pm, ICA Miami Family Fest: Florida Wild! in Miami
• Next month, 5th October, 11:30 am, Family Sundays at ICA Miami: Shape shifting Storytelling with Miriam Schapiro in Miami

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