Jon Rafman: UK premiere of Minor Daemon: Volume 1 at 180 - FAD magazine

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180 Studios to contiguous the UK premiere of Minor Daemon: Volume 1, a caller movie by Canadian creator and filmmaker Jon Rafman.

Rafman’s diagnostic movie presents a computer-generated fever-dream universe, drafting connected the landscapes of online worlds to analyse the interrelationship of exertion and societal consciousness.

Set successful a surreal dystopia, Minor Daemon: Volume 1 tells the communicative of 2 young men who stock an bonzer acquisition for virtual world gaming that could unafraid their state arsenic they journey done a Hieronymus Bosch-like hellscape. Continuing where Rafman’s Dream Journal 2016-2019 (2019) near off, the new film harnesses user animation exertion to rise aesthetic questions astir computer-generated moving images, projecting the anxieties of 21st century techno-society into 3D animation.

Jon Rafman is known for his interdisciplinary signifier that spans photography, sculpture, video, virtual reality, and installation. His enactment explores the relationship betwixt digital technology and the communities it creates, drafting connected the rich vocabulary and visuality of the internet to make poetic narratives that critically prosecute with the present.

Jon Rafman: Minor Daemon: Volume 1, 2nd February – 25th March 2023 180 The Strand, London

The presumption astatine 180 Studios coincides with a solo-exhibition of Jon Rafman at Sprüth Magers, London (3rd February – 25th March 2023).

About the artist

Jon Rafman calved successful 1981 successful Montreal, Canada. He studied Philosophy and Literature astatine McGill University successful Montreal and received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His enactment explores the interaction of exertion connected modern consciousness, incorporating the affluent vocabulary of virtual worlds to make poetic narratives that critically prosecute with the present.

Raman’s caller solo exhibitions see Counterfeit Poast astatine Sprueth Magers Berlin (2022); ????????? & GRIMOIRES at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2022); ??????? Ø? ?Ø????, Ordet, Milan (2022); Dream Journal 2016-2019, Central Museum, Utrecht (2020), The Mental Traveller, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (2018), Dream Journal 16′-17′, Sprueth Magers Berlin (2017), I Have Ten Thousand Compound Eyes and Each is Named Suffering, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016), Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster (2016), Muse d’art Contemporain de Montréal (2015), and The Zabludowicz Collection, London (2015).

180 Studios is the emerging centre of London’s originative community. The Studios are housed astatine 180 The Strand, an iconic Brutalist gathering that has been transformed into a taste hub. Throughout its web of accumulation spaces, 180 supports caller and emerging creator endowment and has commissioned caller works by artists specified as Ryoji Ikeda, Es Devlin, Hito Steyerl, Kahlil Joseph, United Visual Artists, Caterina Barbieri, Jenn Nkiru Gabriel Moses, Julianknxx and Universal Everything.

The astir caller 180 Studios exhibition Broken Spectre by Richard Mosse was a critically acclaimed sensation with five-star reviews crossed the broadsheet press. Previous radical show Future Shock (2022) featured leading planetary artists moving astatine the apex of audio-visual technology. Other exhibitions include: Lux (2021-22), Ryoji Ikeda (2021), The French Dispatch (2021), Transformer: A Rebirth of Wonder (2019), Other Spaces (2019), Strange Days: Memories of the Future (2018), Everything astatine Once (2017) and The Infinite Mix (2016).

As good arsenic 180 Studios, 180 The Strand is besides location to a web of broadcast studios and creatives, restaurants specified arsenic Toklas and Ikoyi, autarkic arts bookshop Reference Point and London’s flagship Soho Works and 180 House.