In Conversation

Activating the Spectator by Reshaping the Aesthetic Field: Op, Kinetic, and Participatory Art in South America, 1959–1965

On October 10, 2020, Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Barnard College, discussed the development of research-based artistic practices that fused art with mathematics, science, and technology in the late 1950s and early 1960s in South America. 

Meredith Malone, associate curator, and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Latin American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis, served as respondents.