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(Don’t) Be Evil: Jon Rafman’s Vision of Online Hell
Memo, (5)
Winter 2026
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Abstract
Like a Goya of Google, Rafman fixates on the distrust, disdain, paranoia, and vengeances that motivate our daily practices of doomscrolling, constructing metaphors for humanity on the edge, after the apocalypse has gone mainstream.
Jon Rafman’s first retrospective exhibition in Australia has arrived at the Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane, bringing the artist’s notorious themes of internet alienation and the uncanny valley — along with what Sophie Knezic once termed his “pall of pessimism” — to the Sunshine State.
Details
- Title
- (Don’t) Be Evil: Jon Rafman’s Vision of Online Hell
- Creators
- Wes Hill - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Memo, (5)
- Publisher
- Memo Review Inc; Melbourne, Australia
- Identifiers
- 991013390251002368
- Copyright
- © Memo Review Inc.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Resource Type
- Magazine article