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The Age Demanded installation view
Untitled (Paint FX #1) 2010 archival pigment print 29"x38"
The Age Demanded installation view
The Age Demanded installation view
Untitled (Paint FX #2) 2010 archival pigment print 16"x20"
Untitled (Paint FX #3) 2010 archival pigment print 16"x20"
Untitled (Paint FX #4) 2010 archival pigment print 16"x20"
Untitled (Paint FX #5) 2010 archival pigment print 16"x20"
Untitled (Paint FX #6) 2010 archival pigment print 16"x20"
Untitled (Paint FX #7) 2010 archival pigment print 16"x20"
Untitled (Paint FX #8) 2010 archival pigment print 16"x20"
Untitled (Paint FX #9) 2010 archival pigment print 16"x20"
The Age Demanded installation view
Parker Ito Condo 2010 Dimensions variable 40"x52" oil on canvas, artist book, mesh shirt
Parker Ito Condo detail: 40"x52" oil on canvas
Parker Ito Condo detail: mesh shirt
Parker Ito Condo detail: artist book
Sleeping Shepherd Boy . com 2008 Website
Untitled (Paint FX #11) 2010 archival pigment print 36"x36"
Untitled (Paint FX #12) 2010 archival pigment print 16"x20"
The Age Demanded (#1) 2010 archival pigment print 16"x20"

Jon Rafman

The Age Demanded

October 29, 2010 - December 10, 2010

Opening Reception: October 29, 6-9pm

Golden Age is pleased to present The Age Demanded, Jon Rafman’s first solo exhibition. Mixing humor and melancholy Rafman’s video, photography, and painting celebrates technology while critiquing the consciousness it reflects.
 
In Woods of Arcady, Vangelis-like synths and text-to-speech robots guide us through three dimensional classic antiquity. In Nine Eyes of Google Street Views, Rafman highlights the tension between an automated camera and our search for connectedness. In his collaborative work at the edge of formalist abstraction (Paint FX), Rafman once more uses the medium itself as a tool to investigate how new technologies shape culture.
 
Join us at 8pm on the opening night for an existential tour through the multi-user virtual environment of Second Life.


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Jon Rafman (born 1981, Montreal) lives and works in Montreal, Canada. His work has been exhibited at the Woodmill, London, England; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Italy; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; DeVos Museum, Marquette, Michigan; The Future Gallery, Berlin. Rafman's work has been profiled in Modern Painters, Harper's, New York Times, NPR, Fast Company, and Wired Magazine.
 
Rafman is also included in Free at the New Musuem, opening Wednesday, October 20.

Jon Rafman Artist Page

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