LANA Z CAPLAN

Downtown at Sundown  Thursday, Jul 20, 2017 - 5:00 PM-8:00 PM Visual and performing arts converge at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s after-hours offering: Downtown at Sundown. On the third Thursday of every month, enjoy free Museum admission and exhibition tours, DJ-spun tunes, free entry at SDSU Downtown Gallery, drink specials at the adjacent Stone Brewing Company Store, and so much more. Explore current exhibitions at MCASD with complimentary tours at 5:30 and 6:45 PM. 

At the SDSU Downtown Gallery, enjoy an evening of film screenings with California-based artist Lana Z Caplan. Caplan is a photographer and video artist whose work investigates the notion of place through experimental digital techniques inherent to the technology she uses. Three short videos will be screened at 5:30, 6:30, and 7:30 PM. 

http://mcasd.org/events/downtown-sundown-12 http://art.sdsu.edu/downtown-at-sundown-with-lana-z-caplan/

art. music. technology.

The inaugural AMT Festival (art, technology, music) is a pilot initiative of the San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) in collaboration with the Fleet Science Center and Southwestern College to present a national festival of experimental, electronic, and data-driven ideas in a creative laboratory featuring cutting edge performances, music hacking, and demos that connect artists, students, technologists, researchers, thought leaders, and businesses in a vibrant environment.

Lana Z Caplan will be presenting a new video work on Thursday February 2 in the IMAX theater at the Fleet Science Center.

February 2 - 4, 2017 https://amtfestival.com/

The Morning After

San Diego Underground Film Festival November 11-13, 2016

Screening Lana Z Caplan videos:

Maelstroms in Program Lammas November 12, 2016 | 12:45PM -2:45PM

Canaries in the Mine in Program Ostera November 13, 2016 | 10:00AM - 12:00PM

Tenth Avenue Arts Center 930 10th Ave, San Diego, CA http://www.sdundergroundfilm.com/

Microscope Gallery Event Series Monday October 17, 7:30pm “Maps, Monuments, and Meditation Exercises” Together the works in the program, which range from 15 seconds to 15 minutes, take on major issues of our times such as border control, power and privilege, sex work, and our conflicted relationship with technology, often incorporating personal experience, literature and poetry, and an appreciation for the absurd.

Featuring works by Lana Z Caplan, Sasha Waters Freyer, Jerimiah Jones, Annie Rose Malamet, Jung Hee Mun, Sarada Rauch, Josh Sender, Katya Yakubov. Q&A w/ New York area artists following the screening

Microscope Gallery 1329 Willoughby Ave, #2B Brooklyn, NY 11237 www.microscopegallery.com

Havana Film Festival December 8-18, 2016

Maelstroms screening December 9 in a program curated by Dominic Angerame

ACRE TV presents: RE/NIGHT/LIVE/MARE Streaming on ACRETV.org: November 1 – December 31, 2016 Concept by Joseph Herring Programmed by Joseph Herring, Kera MacKenzie, and Andrew Mausert-Mooney

RE/NIGHT/LIVE/MARE re- considers your nightmares; re- examines your daydreams; re- contextualizes pre-existing (video art? videotaped performance work? found footage?) through re- presenting, re- editing, re -mixing. Featuring works that re- search, re- consider, re- examine, re- contextualize nightmares, daydreams, flying-fancies, hyper-realities. Also included: live re- mixing pre- existing work with new live footage to re- consider it in under the cold, hard, clinical (or soft warm fuzzy *wicked grin ) light of the telematic screen.

RE/NIGHT/LIVE/MARE includes work by Alejandro Sajgalik, Antonio Anton, Arthur Tuoto, Blanca Rego, Chanhee Choi, Chris Collins, Dakota Gearhart, Danielle Zorbas, David Ian Bellows/Griess, Devin Harclerode, DSK (Juan Lesta & Belén Montero), Dxn Anahí, Eden Mitsenmacher, Francesca Fini, Heejin Jang, Isabelle McGuire, Jan & Dave, Janelle VanderKelen, Jen Clay, Katya Yakubov, Lana Z Caplan, Lauren Kimball-Brown & Julia Zinn, Lauren Valley, Leslie Rogers, Lili White, Lori Felker, Maddie Hewitt, Manuela De Laborde, Mark Kent, Nowhere Mountain, Paul Wiersbinski, Richard Haley, Tommy Becker, Usumurasaki, Vivian Ostrovsky, Yvette Granata, and Zachary Epcar.

Featuring live broadcasts by Alejandro T Acierto, Jan & Dave, Jen Clay, and Richard Haley.

Lana Z Caplan's films screening: 10.17.16: Maelstroms: Microscope Gallery Event Series: Brooklyn 11.12.16: Maelstroms and Canaries in the Mine: San Diego Underground Film Festival 12.09.16: Maelstroms: Havana Film Festival: Cuba Nightly, Winter 2016: Home: The Intersection: Public Art Installation: San Diego

Still from "and the stars look very different today" installing March 2015 SDAI project space

Gallery-based 360 Virtual Reality Experience.

In the 360 virtual reality video experience -titled “and the stars look very different today” - subjective realities cosmically collide in speculative worlds. The visitor is situated in the galley in physical space, while simultaneously visiting the gallery in a virtual reality in which they find a procedurally generated universe. 

http://www.byobworldwide.com/post/140461178965/sdai-presents-byob-sdai-project-space-in-horton

New video made for the band STEERAGE (excerpt)

Album “entropy is what the state makes of it” out 9/15/15 on caduc. (caduc.org)

HERE | HEAR

photos by Lana Z Caplan from the series Following Instructions (for Yoko)

TOMORROW: 8/15, 5-10pm

A SHIP IN THE WOODS at Space 4 Art

Adam Belt Lana Z Caplan Francisco Eme David White Matthew Hebert Andrew Hunter Morgan Mandalay Max Nanis Gabie Strong !ZeuqsaV!

MUSIC BY PRGRM w/ HEXA

curated by Lianne Thompson Mueller

Since the fall of 2010, A SHIP IN THE WOODS has been a community-driven hub for art and culture set in a mid-century modern home on acre of densely vegetated land in Del Mar. The house presented a unique opportunity to showcase art in a domestic setting and functioned as a venue for displaying world-class works from both established and up-and-coming artists. After many successful events, a flourishing residency program, and demand for continued support of local innovative thinkers, A SHIP IN THE WOODS became a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2013.

Sadly, after five years, the owners of the Del Mar property have announced the demolition date of the house. A SHIP IN THE WOODS is now in negotiations for a new permanent space, WSOHOIDPS while simultaneously continuing its residency program, events, collaborations, and elevated dialogues in art, science, and culture.

The artists of Space 4 Art curatorial group enthusiastically invited A SHIP IN THE WOODS to curate a summer art event while their galleries sit vacant between exhibitions. In addition to being a fundraiser for the new residency program, educational wing, and recording studio for their new location.

Here/Hear is an event encompassing art, performance, music, film, and installation. During Here/Hear, artists will use sound, light, and physical experience to express their own perception of what it means to be “here.” Lana Caplan brings to us her visual interpretations from Yoko Ono’s book Grapefruit. Adam Belt’s artwork illuminates images, which slowly appear from a barren frame of blackness.Morgan Mandulay reframes ordinary objects. Francisco Eme manipulates simple elements using natural reflection, refraction, and diffraction of sound to create an ethereal soundscape. Gabie Strong and Matthew Hebert bring us an interactive auditory landscape. These artists address question “Can we hear and see things differently for just a moment and how?”

The bands PRGRM and HEXA will be on stage throughout the evening.

Space 4 Art is a thriving arts center in San Diego’s East Village where artists live, work, and interact in an innovative and educational environment. As a community-driven arts organization, Space 4 Art recognizes the importance of funding and finding a permanent home. They are currently developing a plan to construct a facility in Sherman Heights, which will allow them to continue to fulfill their role as a hub for visual and performing artists, and an arts enrichment center for underserved members of the community.

 Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1473340319649917/

California Winter

©Lana Z Caplan 2015

California Winter

©Lana Z Caplan 2015

California Winter

©Lana Z Caplan 2015

California Winter

©Lana Z Caplan 2015

California Winter

©Lana Z Caplan 2015

California Winter (Fire in Ocean Beach)

©Lana Z Caplan 2015