The Weird Sisters #5, #10, #13, 2022, Death Of The Author, What Good Is Grief To A God, and Zombie Formalisms, 2023
AI-generated digital images and animations (Stable Diffusion, Wombo, Genmo, D-iD Studio, Adobe Firefly, and Adobe After Effects)
Sean Capone is an animation artist, video projection muralist, performer, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work with artificial intelligence often intersects with spoken word and character animation to create pantheons of subjects that navigate the technological future. The Weird Sisters are part of Capone’s Zombie Punx project, which synthesizes mythology, pop culture, punk, horror, and art history. As generated nature spirits, The Weird Sisters are the Three Fates of the digital age, effervescent reflections of folklore that spin humanity through the rapid development of technology. By contrast, the characters in Death of the Author, What Good Is Grief To A God, and Zombie Formalisms are prosopopoeia, or visual personifications of abstract concepts. These deities, creatures, and supernatural beings offer critical perspectives of a world increasingly blurred by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. As Capone believes, artificial intelligence “invites us to reimagine the role of the contemporary artist as that of an explorer and interpreter of the forms, symbols and archetypes embedded in the collective image memory of our vast cultural media landscape.”
Artist Bio
Sean Capone (b. Rochester NY) is an animation artist, video projection muralist, motion-capture performer and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Sean received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1994), and he is a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Digital/Electronic Art. Sean developed his craft while living & working between Chicago, Los Angeles and NYC; his work in the animation field spans a wide variety of projects for film, TV, video games, and event & stage production. Over the past decade, he has become recognized for his digital video works and public art practice, creating site-specific 'video murals' using animation, projection, and public LED screens. His most recent solo show 'Black Night White Light' at Penn State University's HUBRobeson Gallery was exhibited concurrently with 'The Whirling World', a permanent four-screen video installation commissioned by Penn State Campus Arts.
Sean’s works have been screened and exhibited at the National Gallery of Art (Wash DC), San Diego Art Institute (CA), Visual Studies Workshop (NY), Telematic Gallery (SF, CA), 5-50 Gallery (NYC), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin DE), and the Museum of Biblical Art (NYC). Public art commissions include those for DTLA Public Library (LA, CA), 150 Media Stream (Chicago IL), ZAZ10 Times Square (NYC), Burning Man Festival (NV), and multiple editions of the Supernova Digital Animation Festival (Denver CO) and the SF Let's Glow Festival (CA). Sean has presented video installation activations at the MoMA (NYC), SF MoMA (CA), Museum of Art & Design (NYC), Brooklyn Museum (NYC) and the SCAD Museum of Art (GA). His work has been included in numerous festivals, public art environments and group shows worldwide, and his writings and interviews on the subject of animation art have appeared in BOMB Magazine.