Biography
Jonathan Capone is a Los Angeles–based photographer, interdisciplinary artist, and educator. Working across photography, video, sculpture, software, and digital fabrication, his practice examines how images and technologies shape what becomes visible, valued, or overlooked. His projects draw from public spaces, commercial landscapes, popular imagery, scientific data, and environmental systems, often using observation, reconstruction, and computational processes to reconsider familiar subjects.
Capone grew up in New York and holds a BA in Film and Integrated Arts from Bard College. His work has been exhibited at Lois Lambert Gallery and the Chaffee Art Center. Alongside his art practice, he teaches through hands-on, inquiry-driven approaches that bring together art, science, technology, and design.
Across more than fifteen years of teaching I have designed and run makerspaces and stood up a fabrication facility, written the curricula for the courses that fill them, and taught from primary school through high school. Alongside that I have managed escape rooms for a paying public, built sensor-driven installations for galleries and for a school building, run projection and live visuals for stage productions, and designed and shipped connected hardware and the software behind it. The through line is work that a person walks up to and operates without being told how.
Everything written on this site was written after the fact, about problems I hit. Where something failed before it worked, the page says so, because the failed version is usually the interesting part.
Contact
Email: hello@jonathancapone.com
(Note: most repositories are kept private. Concordance and OMEGA-bath are public on GitHub, and code from any project is available on request.)