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\nMainsqueeze<\/em>, Still, 2014, HD Video, 7:23 min, Courtesy Future Gallery, Berlin<\/h6>\n

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Jon Rafman untersucht in seinen Arbeiten die Bandbreite und die Auswirkungen von Digitalit\u00e4t. In seinen Videos, Installationen und Fotografien wird das unaufhaltsame Verschwimmen der Grenzen zwischen Virtualit\u00e4t und Realit\u00e4t deutlich. Er verhandelt beispielsweise die Frage, was ein Internetuser, der einen Gro\u00dfteil seiner Zeit vor dem Bildschirm verbringt, als Realit\u00e4t empfindet oder was das im weltumspannenden Raum des Internets verf\u00fcgbare Material u\u0308ber unsere Realit\u00e4t aussagen kann.<\/p>\n

Das Video Mainsqueeze<\/em> (2014) besteht aus im Internet gefundenem Bildmaterial. Vielbesuchte Plattformen wie die amerikanische Bildseite 4chan<\/em> oder youtube<\/em> sind die Quellen, aus denen Jon Rafman Material w\u00e4hlt und neu zusammensetzt. Auch bei der \u00fcber die Bilder gelegten Stimme handelt es sich um Zitate aus Literatur und Internetkommentaren. Unter dem inhaltlich lose verbindenden Motto \u201esqueeze\u201c (dr\u00fccken, auspressen) finden popul\u00e4re und abseitige Internetph\u00e4nomene zu einem Bilderbogen zusammen, der den Betrachter auf die Probe stellt. Zwischen banal und verst\u00f6rend schwankt das Video ebenso wie der kaum zu \u00fcberblickende Raum des Internets zwischen Unschuld und Perversit\u00e4t. Die M\u00f6glichkeit, vom gesch\u00fctzten Platz am Computer in immer absurdere Welten vorzudringen, ist faszinierend und absto\u00dfend zugleich. Die Suche nach neuen visuellen Kicks ist dabei die Lebensader f\u00fcr viele Internetcommunitys. Weniger als eine Bewertung dieser Ph\u00e4nomene liefert Jon Rafman in seinen Kompositionen eine melancholische Bestandsaufnahme eines digitalen als auch realen Zustands.<\/p>\n

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In his works, Jon Rafman investigates the breadth and impact of digitalization. His videos, installations, and photographs cast light on the inexorable blurring of the borders between virtuality and reality. For example, he examines the question as to what an Internet user who spends much of his time in front of the computer screen considers to be reality, or what the material available in the worldwide space of the Internet has to say about our reality.<\/p>\n

The video Mainsqueeze<\/em> (2014) consists of visual material found on the Internet. Popular platforms such as the American bulletin board 4chan<\/em> or YouTube<\/em> are the sources from which Jon Rafman selects and rearranges his material. The voice-over accompanying the images consists of quotations from literature and Internet commentaries. Under the loosely connecting motto \u201csqueeze,\u201d both popular and bizarre Internet phenomena are joined into a visual sequence that challenges the viewer. The video oscillates between banality and disturbance, just as the overwhelmingly vast space of the Internet ranges from innocence to perversity. The possibility of penetrating into increasingly absurd worlds from a sheltered place at the computer is both fascinating and repelling. The search for new visual kicks is the lifeblood of many Internet communities. In his compositions, Jon Rafman offers not so much an evaluation of these phenomena as a melancholic appraisal of a both digital and real state of affairs.<\/p>\n

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JON RAFMAN (CA)<\/strong><\/p>\n

* 1981 in Montreal
\nLives | lebt in Montreal<\/p>\n

Selected solo exhibitions\u00a0 | Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)<\/strong>
\n2016<\/strong> Jon Rafman,<\/em> Westf\u00e4lischer Kunstverein, M\u00fcnster 2015<\/strong> Jon Rafman,<\/em> Zabludowicz Collection, London; Jon Rafman,<\/em> Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Montreal 2014 <\/strong>The end of the end of the end,<\/em> Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Jon Rafman: Mainsqueeze,<\/em> Plymouth Rock, Z\u00fcrich 2012<\/strong> Jon Rafman,<\/em> Palais de Tokyo, Paris; The Nine Eyes of Google Street View,<\/em> Saatchi Gallery, London<\/p>\n

Selected group shows | Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)<\/strong>
\n2016<\/strong> Will Aballe Projects,<\/em> Vancouver; Berlin Biennale,<\/em> Berlin; Manifesta 11,<\/em> Z\u00fcrich; Dreaming Mirrors\/Dreaming Screens, Spr\u00fcth Magers, Berlin 2015<\/strong> Biennale de Lyon,<\/em> France; Moscow Biennial;<\/em> Unorthodox,<\/em> The Jewish Museum, New York; The Metabolic Age!, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires; What Remains,<\/em> Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Digital Conditions,<\/em> Kunstverein Hannover 2014<\/strong> What Is a Photograph?<\/em> International Center of Photography, New York; Science Fiction: New Death,<\/em> FACT, Liverpool; Art Post-Internet,<\/em> Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Power Ball, The Power Plant,<\/em> Toronto; Scripted Spaces,<\/em> Martos Gallery, Los Angeles<\/p>\n

Bibliography | Publikationen<\/strong>
\n2016<\/strong> Infinite Lives. The online anthropology of Jon Rafman,<\/em> frieze magazine #176, London 2015<\/strong> Jon Rafman,<\/em> Mus\u00e9e d\u2018 art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al; Jon Rafman\u2019s <\/em>internet anthropology,<\/em> Interview on www. i-D.vice.com, Oktober<\/p>\n

www.jonrafman.com<\/a>
\nwww.futuregallery.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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