Francisca Caporali is an artist, curator and educator. She is the founder and artistic coordinator of JA.CA. – Centro de Arte e Tecnologia – located in the neighborhood of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Through JA.CA., established in 2010, she has coordinated several projects, including national and international art residencies, workshops, publications, exhibitions, and international collaborative projects. She has also developed author projects with other members of the collective.
SmartSpaces screened Explosion in NY (2008) by Francisca Caporali and Mary Jeys in the open-player group exhibition of video artists in 2009 in the windows of 160 Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Explosion in NY investigates the premise that the New York landscape is part of everyone’s imagination; and that this same landscape has been damaged and destroyed in every possible way by Hollywood producers. Caporali and Jeys play with this imaginary city, presenting the landscape in a more documentary format, while showing the destructions and explosions in a very pictorial way.
Caporali received an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College (New York, NY) and an MA in Interactive Media from MECAD (Barcelona, Spain). Her films and videos have been shown and exhibited at SCOPE and Orchard47 in New York, NY; UnionDoc in Brooklyn, NY; MANA in Jersey City, NJ; Gandy Gallery in Slovakia, Break 2.4 Festival in Slovenia, VideoBrasil, Wide World Film festival in Toronto and the Flaherty Seminar in Hamilton.
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