This presentation by Lindsay Caplan (Assistant Professor, History of Art and Architecture) will examine the convergence of artistic and political experiments with new programs—i.e. platforms for collective organizing and action. It will look at a chapter from Prof. Caplan’s new book, Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) that analyzes Arte Programmata’s design (or, “progettazione”) alongside the emergence of the extra-parliamentary Left.