Sean Capone (b. Rochester NY) is an animation artist, projection muralist, motion-capture performer and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He has worked as an exhibiting artist and animation professional for 30 years.

Sean received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BFA from the University of Texas at Arlington, where he studied with pioneering new media artist Jim Pomeroy. Sean’s work in the animation field spans a wide variety of projects for film, video, and event & stage production. In addition to the Avatar Poetics series, he is recognized for his moving-image based public art commissions and site-specific ‘video murals’ incorporating principles of expanded animation and technologies such as projection mapping and architectural LED screens.

Sean is a 2026 Onassis ONX Fellow, a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Digital/Electronic Art, and was a 2016 Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center.

“As an artist who came of age in the pre-Internet 20th century, I see my work as a playful hybrid of 90s-era cyberpunk, queer Postmodernism, new media art, experimental performance, and the ungovernable fluid space of contemporary digital culture. The tendency within the digital art field is to interrogate or problematize technology. The Avatar Poetics series was born of my desire to convey a human presence through language and voice within the overwhelming flow of imagery and information on our screens — while also offering a critical & absurdist commentary on technology’s utopian premises and speculative possibilities.”