Jon Rafman

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Film still from Kool-Aid Man in Second Life, 2009-2011, digital video, courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery

on internet art

interview by NICHOLAS O’BRIEN

 

NICHOLAS O’BRIEN — Hey Kool-Aid Man.
JON RAFMAN — Hi Nicholas.

NICHOLAS O’BRIEN — So you wanna go sit down and chat somewhere?
JON RAFMAN — Yeah.

NICHOLAS O’BRIEN — Do you know a good place?
JON RAFMAN — I know a few places.

NICHOLAS O’BRIEN — All right. Let’s discuss your history and your kind of art education I guess you could say, but also the early part of your career, which was invested in cinema and film history.
JON RAFMAN — Well, originally I wanted to be a filmmaker. I wanted to tell stories. I studied literature and philosophy in film in preparation for what I thought would be a career in cinema. When I’m surfing Google Street View or…