On October 10, 2020, the Kemper Art Museum presented a live online lecture by Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Barnard College, in which he explored 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. The stated goal of many Op and kinetic artists working during those years was to demystify the creative process in favor of an objective investigation of visual phenomena. Alberro addressed how and why these experiments evolved into a greater concern with the participation of the art spectator.