Dream Journal 2016-2019
2019 · High-definition video (color, sound)
94 min.
Museum of Modern Art
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Jon Rafman
1981
Montreal, QC, Canada
Mixed MediaContemporary
Representation
None documented
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1
Works in Collection
10
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13
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80%
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- • Contemporary
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- Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
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- BiographyWikipedia + Unknown· 88%✓
- LocationArtsy + Gallery· 85%✓
- WebsiteWikidata· 92%✓
- NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
- DeceasedUnknown· 20%
About
Why this artist matters now
Jon Rafman works across video, film, and digital installation to examine the psychological and existential weight of life lived through screens, networks, and algorithmic systems. His ongoing project 9-Eyes, begun in 2009, culls found images from Google Street View to construct an uncanny portrait of the world as mediated by machine vision. The work sits at the intersection of documentary and surrealism, where the accidental and the human surface within automated image capture. His practice has been presented at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
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Mixed Media
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Visual Arts
McGill University
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