Contemporary Art Criticism, Interviews, Essays and Visual Politics
Jon Rafman (born 1981 in Montreal) is a Canadian artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He works with video, photography, animation, virtual reality, sculpture and immersive installation. His practice explores how digital technologies reshape memory, identity, desire and social experience. He approaches online culture with fascination and unease, moving between beauty, loneliness, humour and the grotesque.
Since 2008, The Nine Eyes of Google Street View has collected strange scenes captured by automated cameras. In Kool-Aid Man in Second Life, Rafman guided audiences through fantasies built inside a virtual world. Later works draw from video games, online subcultures, algorithmic images and artificial intelligence. They often resemble broken myths produced by software, nostalgia and endless visual consumption.
This archive gathers articles, exhibitions and critical views on Rafman’s work. Projects such as Dream Journal and Minor Daemon turn digital worlds into unstable psychological landscapes. Rafman does not present the internet as a separate realm. He shows how its images enter the body, shape desire and alter our sense of reality. His work asks what remains human when platforms increasingly organise perception, memory and imagination.
Immersion and interaction: the 1990s helped define digital art as an experiential space. Post-Internet Art: When the Internet Stopped Being Somewhere Else Post-Internet Art sounds like a historical contradiction because we are clearly
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