The intersection of art, science, and technology presents a unique, sometimes challenging, viewpoint for both scientists and artists. It is in this nexus that art historian Lindsay Caplan positions herself: “My work as an art historian focuses on the ways that artists across the 20th century engage with new technologies like computers, video, and television, not merely as new materials for making art as they already understand it, but as conceptual platforms for reorienting and reimagining the foundational assumptions of their practice.”With this introduction, Caplan, an assistant professor at Brown…
