Born in Dover, Delaware, USA in 1970.
Lives and works in Kanazawa, Japan.
Can Tamura is an artist, filmmaker, and audiovisual anthropologist whose work explores digital data production as embodied practice; sensory perception; and the materiality and phenomenology of digital data, money, and power.
Education
1988-1993 B.A. in Communications at Antioch College. Yellow Springs, OH.
2017-2019 M.A. in Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices at the University of Münster.
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Presentations
2018:
Shoveling Ishikawa, film screening and lecture in connection with im/pulse: Vincent Moon, contact Gonzo, and the Anthro-film Laboratory, Kyoto City University of Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, June 20, 2018.
2017:
The Supper Gaze, Gallery Muku, Kanazawa, October 13 to 18, 2017.
2016:
Electric Yen Zone, Gallery Muku, Kanazawa, June 3 to 8, 2016.
2015:
In Flight Art/Landing, Cafe Foodelica, Kyoto, October 9 to 25, 2015.
Ninjin Jyanai, Gallery Muku, Kanazawa, February 6 to 11, 2015.
2014:
Ninjin Jyanai, Cafe Foodelica, Kyoto, February 14 to March 16, 2014.
2013:
Zen Art Machine, Jam Sake Bar, Kyoto, July 6 to August 31, 2013.
2012:
Ninjin Jyanai, Jam Sake Bar, Kyoto, August 19 to November 10, 2012.
2002:
Nostalgia For Nationalist Squid and Other Tales, Mongolian Theater Museum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, March, 2002.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013:
Fotografika 6: Emotion, SoHo Art Gallery, Osaka, September 10 to 15, 2013.
White Heat, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery Yokohama, April 1999.