Jon Rafman

Rafman in 2013

Jon Rafman (born 1981) is an artist, filmmaker, and essayist. His work centers around the concept of the impact of technology on contemporary consciousness. His artwork has gained international attention and was exhibited in 2015 at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (Montreal).[1] He is widely known for exhibiting found images from Google Street View in his online artwork 9-Eyes (2009-ongoing).[2]

Biography

Rafman was born in Montreal, Canada. He holds an M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.A. in Philosophy and Literature from McGill University. He lives in Montreal.

Work

Rafman giving a lecture in Moscow, Spring 2012

Rafman's work focuses on technology and digital media, often using narrative to emphasize the ways in which it distances us from ourselves, other people, and history. Much of his work focuses on melancholy in modern social interactions, communities and virtual realities, often including humour and irony. His videos and art utilize personal moments intended to reveal how pop-culture ephemera and advertising media shape our desires and threaten to define our being.

He has explored the identities and history of some of our most common virtual worlds—Google Earth, Google Street View and Second Life.

An ongoing project of Rafman's involves a tour around the virtual universe of Second Life, which is hosted by his avatar Kool-Aid Man. The work deals with how users employ creative exploits in order to bring to life an idealized self and entertain sexual fetishes in the virtual world.

In September 2013, Rafman collaborated with Brooklyn-based experimental musician Oneohtrix Point Never on a video to accompany the release of R Plus Seven (Warp).[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Publications with contributions by Rafman

References

  1. ↑ "Jon Rafman | Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal". www.macm.org. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  2. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/9096610/The-Nine-Eyes-of-Google-Street-View-a-photo-project-by-Jon-Rafman.html
  3. ↑ Tim Walker (2012-07-25). "Google Street View photographs: the man on the street - Features - Art". The Independent. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  4. ↑ "The street views Google wasn't expecting you to see – in pictures | Art and design". theguardian.com. 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  5. ↑ "Jon Rafman's Surreal Google Street View Accidents (PHOTOS)". Huffingtonpost.com. 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  6. ↑ "The Nine Eyes of Google Street View: a photo project by Jon Rafman". Telegraph. 2012-02-21. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  7. ↑ "The Portraits of Google Street View - Alexis C. Madrigal". The Atlantic. 2010-11-09. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  8. ↑ Rafman, Jon (2012-05-04). "Interview: Jon Rafman, The lack of history in the post-Internet age". eyecurious. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  9. ↑ "Jon Rafman and Rosa Aiello: Remember Carthage". New Museum. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  10. ↑ "Global Entertainment". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  11. ↑ Twerdy, Saelan. "Jon Rafman: Mapping Google - Canadian Art". Canadianart.ca. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  12. ↑ Jon Rafman (2009-08-12). "IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View". Artfagcity.com. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  13. ↑ Karl-Magnus Johansson (2013), Communicating the Archive : Physical Migration, The Regional State Archives in Gothenburg. ISBN 978-91-979866-3-2
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