Sean Capone [US]

Sean Capone studied Video and New Media at the University of Texas at Arlington and Time Arts Studies at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. In the last ten years he has been present mainly throughout the USA, but as well in Australia, Europe and Japan. For the first time he is shown in Poland during NARRACJE 2011. Currently he lives and works in New York City.
His artistic research is based on the creed that "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." In his artistic practice he is working primarily in the mediums of video, animation, and photography. Sean Capone is known for his large-scale digital projections on architectural spaces and facades, transforming the built environment with moving image compositions that blur the line between painterly pattern-and-decoration, visual f/x and cinematic perceptions of space.

www.seancapone.com

NARRACJE 2011 Work: Pink Narcissus

Derived from natural phenomena such as trees, leaves or blossoms, animals or rivers, ornaments are universal, nature-based systems of signs. As patterns they were used to embellish household appliances, textiles and buildings since the early days of mankind. As an anthropological constant, they returned in the globalized communication processes as a cross-culturally usable, graphical elements and visual languages. Sean Capone explores ornaments of organic forms and motion in the virtual dimension. Of the series of digital wallpapers, displayed inside and outside, Pink Narcissus is a single channel audio-visual installation which premiered in April 2011 at the Brooklyn Museum. It is a sequence of animated graphic motifs resembling evolutionary processes from color to shape to pattern to organism and vice-versa.

Location: ul. Radna 4, building wall to be watched from ul. Łąkowa