News & Upcoming Events

2012

COME RIDE THE BIKE!

In honor of the release of
ASPECT: Vol. 18: EXPORT FROM CHINA:

Gallery NAGA is installing:
Welcome to Suzhou

Gallery NAGA, Boston
February 2012
Reception Friday Feb 3, 6-8pm

Lana Z Caplan: Welcome to Suzhou
with commentary by Liz Munsell
included in Vol. 18: EXPORT FROM CHINA

http://www.aspectmag.org/

ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art
Just Released

Lana Z Caplan: Welcome to Suzhou
with commentary by Liz Munsell
included in Vol. 18: EXPORT FROM CHINA

preview the piece or purchase DVDs here

http://www.aspectmag.org/

Lana Z Caplan:
When you cut into the present, the future leaks out
Interactive Video Installation

Fountain, Brooklyn
May 2012
Reception: May 5, 7-10pm

2011

SOSPIRA
a film by Lana Z Caplan


Screening & Reception:
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
6:30 pm
free and open to the public

watch trailer

Gallery NAGA
67 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116
www.gallerynaga.com

facebook event page

Panoptic: New Media
Camden Maine International Film Festival
September 28 - October 2, 2011

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 28, 6:00 PM

Asymmetrick Arts
405 Main Street
Rockland, ME 04841
207-594-2020

http://camdenfilmfest.org/panoptic/

MassArt Made Fine Art Fete
Wednesday September 28th, 6:30 - 9pm

Massachusetts College of Art and Design
621 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
Kennedy Building
2nd floor, Student Life Gallery

RSVP by Monday September 26
to info@massartmade.com or 617-879-7407

Samson Projects: Chain Letter
July 16-23, 2011
Reception: July 16, 6-8pm

Chain Letter is a global group show wherein 10 artists have been invited to participate. Those 10 then invite 10 artists that they admire. Those 10 invite 10 more and so on. This cycle continues for 30 days. The result is a global artist curated group show featured in cities such as; Berlin, London, New York, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Philidelphia, San Francisco, Zurich, Boston, Paris and Seoul.

More information:
http://chainletter2011.com/

Samson Projects:
450 Harrison Avenue &/@ 29 Thayer Street, Boston, MA 02118

Gimili Film Festival
July 20-24, 2011

Screening Le Voyage dans la Lune & Portrait

http://www.gimlifilm.com/

MisALT Screening Series
Pornography and its Discontents
July 28, 2011, 7:30pm

Screening Love Poems

at Workspace Ltd.
2150 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA

http://www.workspacelimited.org/

FLOURISH: Alumni Works on Paper
June 6 - July 9, 2011
Bakalar Gallery
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

Opening Reception: June 9, 2011, 6-8 PM

Jurors:
Tammy Dayton: Creative Director, Moth Design, Boston
Michelle Lamunière: John R. and Barbara Robinson Curator of Photography
Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum
Edward Saywell: Chair of Contemporary Art and MFA Programs
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Curator:
Lisa Tung, Director of Curatorial Programs
Massachusetts College of Art and Design

more information

Catalog of Graduate Program Alumni online here

PRESS: The Boston Phoenix

SOSPIRA
a film by Lana Z Caplan

Featured on PBS online
www.WORLDCompass.org
for the month of May

Watch the film online here

SOSPIRA
Taking a leap of faith, leaving their city lives, families, careers, friends, and goals, nine courageous international women believed in love, and in themselves, enough to reinvent their lives along the Amalfi Coast of Italy.

Digital video and super 8 weave together while the women's voices carry the film, telling the stories of meeting their love, their choices involved in moving to Italy, the expected and unexpected compromises, and the search for a comfortable balance. As the fantasy veneer of Mediterranean village life wears thin, and beauty recedes to inaccessibility, their own desires and senses of self are called into question, becoming mysterious even to themselves.

A film by Lana Z Caplan with original score by Kevin Micka (aka Animal Hospital) and Chris Brokaw. Made with generous support from The Wexner Center for the Arts.

more info, watch trailer and DVDs now available here

www.WORLDcompass.org
World Compass TV Channel
Unexpected stories: video, audio, documentaries, commentary, public tv

Funding for WORLDcompass.org
provided by the COrporation for Public Broadcasting

SENSING THE UNSEEN: The Transitory: Filming

Screenings
-Exit Zero, Chris Boebel and Chris Walley
discussant: Vivek Bald
- Baan/Home, Emily Zeamer
discussant: Julia Yezbick
- Blind, Hanna Rose Shell
discussant: Lana Z Caplan
- Invisible Film, Ernst Karel
discussant: Peter Whincop

Round table discusson among graduate student filmmakers:
Philip Cartelli, Xi Lin, Lisa Messeri, Canay Ozden, Caterina Scaramelli, Tom Schilling, Julia Yezbick

May 6, 1:00 - 5:00 PM
Bartos Theater, Building E15
MIT Anthropology Program
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

Convenors
Emily Zeamer

http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/transitory.html
All seminar meetings are free and open to the public
No registration is required.

Sensing the Unseen is a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
presents:

An evening with LANA Z CAPLAN
April 7, 2011, 8:30 -10:30 pm
Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA (Hall A)
527 Tremont Street, Boston, MA

FREE and open to the public

PREMIERE EVENT : RECEPTION to follow

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE

SOSPIRA

Sospira is a 50 minute experimental documentary which focuses on nine courageous international women who were traveling seeking themselves and found love along the Amalfi Coast of Italy. Taking a leap of faith, leaving their city lives, families, careers, friends, and goals, each of these women believed in love, and in themselves, enough to reinvent their lives.

Digital video and super 8 weave together while the women's voices carry the film, telling the stories of meeting their love, their choices involved in moving to Italy, the expected and unexpected compromises, and the search for a comfortable balance. As the fantasy veneer of Mediterranean village life wears thin, beauty recedes to inaccessibility, and their own desires and sense of self are called into question, becoming mysterious even to themselves.

Original score by Kevin Micka (aka Animal Hospital) and Chris Brokaw.

Sopsira was made with generous support from
the Wexner Center for the Arts

***SOSPIRA will be preceded by an excerpt from Shift by Lana Z Caplan,
featuring Lana Z Caplan with Jennifer Reeder, Saul Levine, George Kuchar,
Jonah Rapino, Liz Munsell, Anabel Vazquez, Stefano Irace and more!

see other excerpts from Shift here

FOTO-TIPOS
March 17 – May 4, 2011
LA GALERÍA
at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

OPENING RECEPTION: THU., MARCH 17, 6-9 PM
ARTIST TALK: WED., APRIL 20, 6-8 PM

Foto-Tipos:
an exhibition of alternative processes of photography
organized by:
the National Gallery of Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico;
Galería Nacional del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña,
Co-curated by Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez and Iris Nanette Vázquez

FOTO-TIPOS captures the incomparable craftsmanship of early analog photography and highlights its lasting influence on our visual culture. Unique contemporary images made with antique processes by artists from Boston, Puerto Rico, and Spain, pay tribute to the inventions, techniques, artists and theoriesof the nineteenth century.

with works by:
Lana Z Caplan (tintypes)
Alex Diaz
Marta Fodor
Montse Morcate
Waleska Rivera
Héctor Román
Rolando Silva Meléndez
Anabel Vázquez
Iris Nanette Vázquez

Press from the show in San Juan:
in spanish

on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139940446070757
see photos from the show: http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=347366&id=89419166398

100 HOURS IN THE WOODSHED III
Gallery 51, 51 Main St, North Adams, MA
January 27 - February 20, 2010

Third biennial collage marathon and exhibition with 30 artists coming together to make art together for 100 hours in a gallery/studio residency.

PRESS:
The Boston Globe: Taking to the Woodshed, by Cate McQuaid
North Adams Transcript: 100 Hours of Art, by Jennifer Huberdeau

PHOTOS:
Berkshire Cultural Resource Center Flickr set: collaging and reception
Flickr set of the artists at work

VIDEOS:
Max Jeffers performing in front of video by Lana Z Caplan at the reception
Most of the artists at work, shot by Joshua Field (on facebook)

Participating Artists:
Samuel Adams, Jason Brinkerhoff, Pamela Buchannan, Lana Z Caplan, Andrew Davis, Claire Eder, Joshua Field, Claire Fox, Mark Holstein, Maggie Hunt, Josh Jefferson, Joseph Kennard, Henry Klein, Melora Kuhn, Melissa LIllie, Lisa Lindgren, Steve Morell, Melanie Mowinski, Mark Mulherrin, Shane Murray, Lisa Nilsson, Danny O, Sean O'Brien, Kristen Parker, Rich Remsberg, Jeff Smith, Ven Voisey, Adam Weiner, Scott Zieher.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Thursday, January 27
5-7 p.m. ::: Artist welcome & kickoff / Public meet and greet.
7-9 p.m. ::: Public is politely escorted out, space setup & collaging comenses.

Friday, January 28 - Sunday, January 30
10 a.m. - 10 p.m .::: Artists Collage in Gallery, open to the public

Monday, January 31
1-6 p.m. ::: Show layout & art hang

Tuesday, February 1
5-7 p.m ::: Opening Reception

PRESS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS:
Woodshed II:
Artists show their drive, North Adams Transcript
"In the woodshed", Berkshire Eagle
"Gallery 51 sets ambitious effort in creativity", North Adams Transcript

Woodshed I:
Mixing it up Artists wrap up 100 hours, North Adams Transcpript

support provided by MassMOCA and MCLA

2010

POST-MEDIUM CRITIQUE

The Affective Index in Video’s Depiction of Desire
by Francisco J. Ricardo

In this riveting essay, Lana Z Caplan's new videos
from the series Refrain are examined in the context
of the history of photography and video art.

www.postmediumcritique.org

Two screenings in India:
In ruins, we rebuild with memories buried in the foundation
will be included in the following programs:

Delhi International Arts Festival
"EdgeLogue" at Alliance Fraincais New Delhi
11-12 December 2010
http://www.diaf.in/

CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity in India
19-21 February 2011
http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec11/index.htm

program information:
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?p=566

ART KILLED THE VIDEO STAR, no.4
Wednesday, October 20 · 9:00pm - 11:30pm

Riff Raff
Gruzenberg 22
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

with videos by:
Bill Domonkos
Nina Lassila
Unnur Einarsdottir
Lukasz Gronowski
Lana Z Caplan
Gil Yefman
surabhi saraf

curated by Inbal Zehavi

facebook event listing

The Camden International Film Festival
New media installation and experimental documentary shorts

PANOPTIC: an exploration
Asymmetrick Arts Gallery
Rockland Maine
September 29 - October 3, 2010
Reception and live performance
Gallery opening and live performance by international media artist Maile Colbert Wednesday,September 29, 2010.  Maile is a former Mid-Coast resident who’s work has taken her around the world as an artist, teacher and composer.

Lana Z Caplan will be showing a brand new 2-channel installation of one-minute portraits shot in 3 countries between July 1 - September 1, 2010, featuring friends, family, encounters, artists and fellow filmmakers such as George Kuchar, Saul Levine, Jennifer Reeder, Anabel Vázquez, Sol Lewitt, Liz Munsell, Laurel Kirtz and many others.

http://www.camdenfilmfest.org/
http://www.asymmetrickarts.com/information/

on facebook/evemt page

SOSPIRA
in the can!

After 3 years of filming and editing, with the generous support of the Wexner Center for the Arts, I am thrilled to announce Sospira is finished.

Sospira is a 50 minute experimental documentary which focuses on nine courageous international women who were traveling seeking themselves and found love along the Amalfi Coast of Italy. Taking a leap of faith, leaving their city lives, families, careers, friends, and goals, each of these women believed in love, and in themselves, enough to reinvent their lives.

Digital video and super 8 weave together to create a visual contrast between expectations and traditions of the village, and the stark realities of clashing cultures, immigration, isolation and the difficulties facing the women in their daily lives. The women's voices carry the film, telling the stories of meeting their love, their choices involved in moving to Italy, the expected and unexpected compromises, and the search for a comfortable balance. As the fantasy veneer of Mediterranean village life wears thin, the conventional structure of the documentary breaks down. Beauty recedes to inaccessibility, as their own desires and sense of self are called into question, becoming mysterious even to themselves.

Original score by Kevin Micka (aka Animal Hospital) and Chris Brokaw.

Online clips/trailer coming soon!

FALL EVENING CLASS
Alternative Camera/AlternativeTechniques
with Lana Z Caplan
Massachusetts College of Art and Design Boston, MA

Monday nights 6:30 -10 PM
September 13 - November 8, 2010
MassArt Registration Information
(can be taken for 1.5 credits)

VIDEO ART DATABASE

Featured Artists this week, June 14 -20, 2010:
Lana Z Caplan, Brian DeLevie, Ron Diorio

VideoChannel - US Video Art on VAD
VAD features between14 and 30 June 2010
a series of US Video Art
curated by Alysse Stepanian (USA/Iran)
in weekly features —> US Video Art

CLICK HERE
http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=2188

SUMMER WORKSHOP
Art New England Summer Workshops
in Bennington, Vermont
A MassArt Program

Expressive Alternative Photography
with Lana Z. Caplan
August 1-7, 2010

About the Workshop
This course is for photographers interested in exploring different techniques to free up creativity and allow for chance encounters and the unexpected. We begin by making our own pinhole cameras, which can distort perspective yet offer remarkably sharp detail with a distinctive flair. Pinhole exposures will be made on both paper and film negatives, and we will use these make prints. We will take advantage of the summer sun, learning hand-coated printing techniques that use the sun for exposure; blue cyanotype, van dyke brown and palladium printing. Students can bring existing negatives for printing or shoot new images in the inspiring Vermont landscape and the studio. There will be plenty of time for experimentation and printing to complete a group of images and prints by the end of the week. Open to all levels of photographers

More Information and registration:
http://mart.massart.edu/ane/
http://mart.massart.edu/ane/workshops/caplan/

V i d e o C h a n n e l Cologne 2010
watch the videos here

make sure to enable pop-up windows

Manipulated Image #12
in cooperation with
"VideoChannel Cologne":

Experimental short videos from the U.S.
Curated by Alysse Stepanian
http://manipulatedimage.com/MI12.html

NewMediaFest'2010: 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:IIcologne
Online screening launched in April 2010
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

Sreening at the Santa Fe Complex
Friday April 2, 2010: 7:30 - 9:30
Santa Fe Complex

In ruins, we rebuild with memories buried in the foundation is included in these programs as a single channel projection.

¡VIDEONORTE!
Estrenos de cortometrajes experimentales de NYC y Nueva Inglaterra, EEUU.

South American premieres
of experimental short films from NYC and New England, USA.

Co-curated by Ivanna Bergese Escupido de la Panza de la Bestia
and Anabel Vázquez Esprit De Corps.

¡VIDEONORTE!

***
Buenos Aires, Argentina:
Friday, Feb. 26, 2010
Zavaleta Lab a las 19:30 hs.
Venezuela 567, San Telmo
***
Córdoba, Argentina:
Friday, March 12, 2010
DTO 6 a las 20 hs.
Oncativo 293 P.A. Esq. Ave. Maipu
***
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Casa 13 a las 19 hs.
Belgrano y Pasaje Revol. (Paseo de los Artesanos)
***
Valparaíso, Chile:
Friday, April 23, 2010
Espacio G a las 20 hs.
Fischer 25 Cerro Concepción, Valparaíso
***
more information: http://discordiafilms.blogspot.com/
Facebook Event Listing

Bathing Beauties is included in this program

ART & TECHNOLOGY
Residency Support Program

The Wexner Center for the Arts
has announced their ongoing support
for a new film work in progress.

Wexner Center for the Arts
www.wexarts.org

NEW BOOK NOW AVAILABLE
Sites of Public Execution
by Lana Z Caplan
55-page hardcover, 2nd edition.

Photographs and stories of former sites
of public execution around the world.

Paired with interesting facts and stories
of the events that took place in these public places, sepia-toned photographs, shot in Beijing, Paris, London, Florence, Rome and Massachusetts, present the contemporary appearances of locales used for hangings, beheadings, and burnings,some in the transient fury of revolution, some in long-term state-sanctioned spectacles.

for more information and to purchase book,
contact Gallery NAGA
67 Newbury Street
Boston MA 02116l
617.267.9060
617.267.9040 fax
mail@gallerynaga.com

View a PDF preview of the book (1st edition):
BOOK PREVIEW

Gallery NAGA

Notes for Future Illusions
one-person exhibition of new work
by Lana Z Caplan

February 5 - February 27, 2010
Opening reception: February 5, 6-8pm

Gallery NAGA
67 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

view virtual exhibition with
video excerpts here

THE BOSTON GLOBE read the review in The Boston Globe here

facebook event listing

2009

EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISON CENTER
ARTIST RESIDENCY

December 2009

http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/

Walnut Hill School
Visual Art Faculty Exhbition

September 28 - October 24, 2009
Walnut Hill School
12 Highland Street, Natick, MA

Opening Reception: October 3, 5-7 pm

www.walnuthillarts.org

VIDEO LOUNGE

4 programs of video works curated by Lana Z Caplan
June 25 - October 18, 2009

33 Main Street
North Adams, MA
413.664.8718
Hours: Wed.-Sat. 10-6, Sun. 11-4
map and more informaiton here: http://www.downstreetart.org/
Opening receptions and new programs begin on
the last thursday of each month:
June 25, July 30, Aug 27, Sept 24, receptions from 6-9pm

press on the video lounge

images from the video lounge on filckr

Downstreet Art is a program of the MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center.
This summer and fall, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is partnering with MassMOCA, The Northern Berkshire Community Coaliton and Scarafoni Reality to highlight an abundance of art in North Adams' DownStreet Art 2009.

http://www.mcla.edu/
Gallery 51

PROGRAM ONE ONLINE HERE

PROGRAM TWO ONLINE HERE

PROGRAM THREE ONLINE HERE

PROGRAME FOUR ONLINE HERE

Participating Artists include:

Natalie Bookchin
Katrine Burkitt
Lana Z Caplan
Goatsilk
Michelle Handelman
Julianna Schley
Saul Levine
Liz Nofziger
Mike Olenick
Marisa Olson
Rich Remsberg
Adie Russell
Ben Russell
Joel Schlemowitz
Anabel Vazquez
Suara Welitoff

VIDEO LOUNGE HITS THE ROAD!

MASSART FILM SOCIETY
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Film Department, Screening Room 1

Wednesday September 23, 8pm

A selection of the programming from the Video Lounge this summer will be screening at Massachusetts College of Art film screening program Film Society (see below for details on Video Lounge)

Videos by:
Natalie Bookchin, Katrine Burkitt, Lana Z Caplan, Goatsilk, Michelle Handelman, Julianna Schley, Saul Levine, Liz Nofziger, Mike Olenick, Marisa Olson, Rich Remsberg, Adie Russell, Ben Russell, Anabel Vazquez and Suara Welitoff.

more information and directions to Film Society here

Galería Nacional (National Gallery of Art)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
June 17 - July 31, 2009

Foto-Tipos: Contemporary visions:
21st century photographers using 19th century processes
in conjuction with: Celebrating the Puerto Rican painter Francisco Oller (1833-1917)

Opening Recpetion: June 17, 2009, 7pm

Galería Nacional
National Gallery of Art, San Juan, PR

press on the show in spanish, google translation to english

2008

2007

Danforth Museum of Art

"WATCH THIS"

October 31 - Dec.16, 2007
Opening reception: Nov. 8

Artist Talk Nov. 8, 6pm

Gallery Talk, Wed. Dec. 5, 12 noon.

Film, video & photographs

Danforth Museum of Art

Danforth Museum of Art
123 Union Avenue
Framingham, MA 01702-8291
508.620.0050

Danforth Museum of Art

"NEW ENGLAND PHOTOGRAPHERS
BIENNIAL EXHIBITION"

September 9 - October 28, 2007
Opening Reception:
Sat, September 8, 6 - 8

Danforth Museum of Art

Danforth Museum of Art
123 Union Avenue
Framingham, MA 01702-8291
508.620.0050

MadCat Women's International Film Festival

Program 11, So Loud It's Silent
El Rio
Wed • Sept 26 • 8:30 pm • Rain or Shine

(Free BBQ @ 6:30pm)
3158 Mission St @ Precita in San Francsio, CA

www.MADCATfilmfestival.org

6dof Muestra Puebla 2007

6dofpuebla07, Puebla, Mexico
3a. muestra de cine y video experimental y alternativo
del 10 al 14 septiembre de 2007

Miercoles 12 septiembre 17.00 hrs.

www.6of.infixa.com

film still from Love in the Afternnon, 24 x 21.5", 2007

Gallery NAGA

"Watch This"
one-person exhibition of new work by Lana Z Caplan

June 8 - July 15, 2007
Opening reception: June 8, 6-8pm

Films, videos & photographs

Gallery NAGA

67 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

view press release

"Pushing Light: Photographic Works"
June 20 - July 16. 2007
Opening Reception:
Sat, June 23, 5:30 - 8pm

Tintypes

Kolok Gallery
121 Union Street, 1E
North Adams, MA

view press release

"Second Coming"

May 23 through June 18, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday May 26, 5:30 - 8:30pm

Kolok Gallery

121 Union Street, 1E
North Adams, MA

2006