Jon Rafman is an artist, filmmaker, and essayist. He explores the impact of technology on contemporary consciousness. His artwork has gained international attention and will be exhibited this year at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. He is widely known for exhibiting found images from Google Street View (9-Eyes) . Jon Rafman's photo project The Nine Eyes of Google Street View, named after the nine lenses mounted on a Google Street View car, collects the strange and beautiful images they capture by accident from around the world.
Rafman’s work focuses on technology and digital media, and emphasizes the ways in which it distances us from ourselves. He offers a way to look at the melancholy in our modern social interactions, communities and virtual realities from an accessible place of humour and irony. His films and art are hauntingly evocative and utilize extremely personal moments to reveal how pop-culture ephemera and advertising media shape our desires and threaten to define our being.
He’s explored the identities and history of some of our most common virtual worlds— Google Earth, Google Street View and Second Life, though Rafman rarely takes a moral stance toward the messaging behind his art, it consistently asks us to evaluate what it means to be human in the context of these new and ambiguous digital realms. Jon Rafman celebrates and critiques contemporary culture, while at the same time revealing the origins of modern loneliness and alienation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Rafman (Date Accessed 22/03/15)
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project-by-Jon-Rafman.html The Telegraph (Date Accessed 22/03/15)
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