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Teaching
Experience | Workshops | Lectures

Mr. Caplan has taught courses, lectured and been in residence at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Currently, he is Professor in the Department of Media Study and Director of the Center for the Moving Image at The State University of New York at Buffalo.

Teaching Experience
  • University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Department of Media Study, Professor, 2004 – present
  • University of Chichester, UK, Visiting Research Fellow, 2004 - present
  • Middlebury College, 2003 Visiting Artist, Residency, Screenings, Lecture
  • Educational Alliance, 2003 Instructor (painting & drawing)
  • University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002, undergraduate and graduate course on video and performance w/screenings
  • Sarah Lawrence College, 1998 – 2000, two separate graduate-level courses on film/video/performance
  • Manhattanville College, 1999 – 2000, undergraduate level course on film/video & performance, workshops & lectures
  • Bennington College, 1999, graduate-level inter-disciplinary workshop course on film/video
  • California State University at Long Beach, 1998, graduate-level course on film/video
  • Sundance Institute, 1987 – 1991, Co-director, Instructor, Visiting Artist, Film/Video/Performance Program

Selected Workshops
  • Dance Films Association, New York, 2001
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999
  • Instituto Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1999 (more than 200 students attended)
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999
  • Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999
  • Teatro San Martin, Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999
  • The Place Theater, London, U.K., 1998
  • Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1998
  • Den Danske Filmskole, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1997
  • Boston University, 1996
  • Central Connecticut State University, 1994, 1996
  • Vienna Dance Festival, Austria, 1995
  • Glasgow Film & Television Center, Glasgow, Scotland, 1995
  • Sundance Institute, 1987 - 1991 (Co-director)

Selected Lectures
  • Performing Arts Library, Lincoln Center, 2007
  • University of Colorado/Boulder, 2004, 2002
  • University of Chichester, UK, 2004, 2003
  • Middlebury College, 2003
  • Bard College, 2003, 1998
  • The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1999
  • Wesleyan University, 1997
  • National Gallery of Canada, 1996
  • Princeton University, 1996
  • Rutgers University, 1996
  • California State University at San Diego, 1996
  • Arizona State University, 1996
  • Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, 1996, 1998
  • Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, 1987



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