From Google Street View and Second Life to 4chan: the profound impact of the internet on culture

A survey of recent film work by Jon Rafman Oh, the humanity! opens at Whangārei Art  Museum on December 20. It is, the gallery say “a harrowing meditation on the digital era’s fraught promises, and how they may have ultimately been broken.” Rafman’s career has seen him dubbed an internet artist. His work has obsessively followed and meditated on the development of cultures and their aesthetics online. His is a serious dedication to the disturbance of our psyche from perhaps spending too much time online. He speaks with Mark Amery.