{"product_id":"9783775763578","title":"Jon Rafman. Main Stream Media","description":"Jon Rafman is one of the most important artists who grapple with the digital age. His videos and films show, both euphorically and analytically, how we as a society deal with the internet and its constant changes. Rafman's practice consists of combining virtuously told stories with uncanny, computer-generated images. It draws on both artificial intelligence and the virtual worlds of user platforms like Second Life. This publication accompanies the artist's first solo exhibition in a German museum and presents an overview of his work since 2008: early works such as Nine Eyes of Google Street View (2008–ongoing) and Kool-Aid Man in Second Life (2008–11), as well as later works such as the feature-length video Dream Journal, shown at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, and Rafman's latest work, Main Stream Media Network (2025–2026), a pastiche of historical MTV that conjures up the 1980s with the help of AI models.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJon Rafman, (*1981 Montréal, Canada, lives in Los Angeles) is an artist, filmmaker, and essayist. He studied philosophy and literature at McGill University in Montréal and earned an MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At the core of his work is the question of how technologies shape our perception and consciousness. His works are exhibited internationally; recent solo presentations include those at the Centraal Museum Utrecht (2020), the Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (2018), and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2016).","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57909156937992,"sku":"9783775763578","price":29.41,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775763578.jpg?v=1780040242","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.com\/products\/9783775763578","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}