Underskog

Join artist Jon Rafman on an existential journey through the virtual worlds of Second Life and Google Street View. He will lead the audiences across cyberpunk megalopolises, furry sex clubs, and vast digital expanses, while providing live critical commentary as he discusses the implications of virtual worlds for modern society. Rafman will address how virtual worlds can be viewed from both critical and celebratory perspectives.

Jon Rafman (b. 1981, Montreal, Canada) is an artist and filmmaker born in Montreal. He has exhibited at the New Museum, the Palais de Tokyo, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, The Fridericianum, and the Saatchi Gallery. Inspired by the rich contradictions that technology presents, Rafman engages with the effects of digital media on individual consciousness and social and cultural memory. His practice further elaborates upon the role of the image in shaping reality and the presence of internet technologies in redefining our relationship to landscape and place.

Program includes:
16/9 Maja Hammarén, 23/9 Sabrina van der Ley, 30/9 Steffen Håndlykken & Stian Eide Kluge, 7/10 Bera Nordal, 14/10 Mike Sperlinger, 21/10 Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar De Carmen, 28/10 Ingrid Hjertaker, 4/11 Adrian Paci, 11/11 Guy Mannes-Abbott, 18/11 Arnd Schneider, 2/12 Simon O`Sullivan

Please join us at Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsvein 17, every Monday at 19.00. The program is free and runs in English. Open Forum is a student initiative conceived in 1999 and is supported by the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts.