Sean Capone
Through immersive-scale video projection environments, Sean Capone puts contemporary ideas about pattern and decoration in the context of new media. He uses the grammar of ornament in a destabilizing and contemplative exploration of beauty, kitsch, pleasure, and spectacle. Presented primarily in the context of public art and immersive spaces which incorporate the moving image into the built environment, his works take the form of video, animation, and large-scale digital projection. According to the artist, "Contemporary life inhabits the space of the screen. Whether projected or transmitted, video is no longer a surface to be viewed, but an environment to be occupied."
Developed over several months in 2014, Capone’s New Paintings series consists of looping non-narrative videos which use generative software in fixed compositions that explore 'painterly' themes in a more rapid, process-oriented approach than those afforded by traditional time-intensive animation techniques. Further exploring decorative design, Horizon (suspension) (2009) is a single video image expanded to create an elegiac visual music score, a false horizon described by a repeating fugue of horizontal motion. The patterned false-panorama evokes the relationship between cinema, landscape and memory.
Capone’s large-scale digital video projections have shown internationally at many galleries, museums, public spaces, events and …
Through immersive-scale video projection environments, Sean Capone puts contemporary ideas about pattern and decoration in the context of new media. He uses the grammar of ornament in a destabilizing and contemplative exploration of beauty, kitsch, pleasure, and spectacle. Presented primarily in the context of public art and immersive spaces which incorporate the moving image into the built environment, his works take the form of video, animation, and large-scale digital projection. According to the artist, "Contemporary life inhabits the space of the screen. Whether projected or transmitted, video is no longer a surface to be viewed, but an environment to be occupied."
Developed over several months in 2014, Capone’s New Paintings series consists of looping non-narrative videos which use generative software in fixed compositions that explore 'painterly' themes in a more rapid, process-oriented approach than those afforded by traditional time-intensive animation techniques. Further exploring decorative design, Horizon (suspension) (2009) is a single video image expanded to create an elegiac visual music score, a false horizon described by a repeating fugue of horizontal motion. The patterned false-panorama evokes the relationship between cinema, landscape and memory.
Capone’s large-scale digital video projections have shown internationally at many galleries, museums, public spaces, events and festivals, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Arts & Design. Capone was the 2010 recipient of the Grand Prize for Public Installation from the DUMBO Arts Festival.
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