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Encounters 2025

<h1>Jon Rafman 喬恩．拉夫曼 </h1>
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<h3>SIGNAL ROT 《信號衰減》 2025</h3>
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Presented by Neon Parc 由霓虹公園呈獻

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SIGNAL ROT 2025 6 x 6 x 3 m PVC curtains, video screens, furniture
Television has long shaped collective memory, but what happens when AI takes over the signal? SIGNAL ROT reimagines broadcast media as an algorithmic spectacle where music videos, animations, and experimental content morph and converge. Expanding on his exploration of digital culture and virtual worlds, Jon Rafman constructs a media environment that mirrors and distorts the hyperconnected era. At the core of SIGNAL ROT are AI-generated videos created by Rafman and a small team, showcasing how new technologies enable artists to accomplish what once demanded vast resources. The installation features &lsquo;Catastrophonics&rsquo;, a groundbreaking series by Rafman's musical creation Iron Tears. This four-part work seamlessly stitches AI-manipulated disaster footage into hypnotic sequences that embody themes of technological mediation and collective trauma. Viewers experience these videos from within a recreated sinking car interior, an enclosed space that intensifies feelings of voyeurism and vulnerability, challenging our relationship with mediated disaster and blurring the line between observer and participant in our screen-dominated reality. Referencing the communal experience of MTV's golden age, the work collapses nostalgia and automation, blending human creative direction with synthetic imagery. What emerges is a hybrid space where cultural memory is reshaped, reflecting the ways digital platforms recycle, manipulate, and fragment the visual lexicon of contemporary life. Blurring the boundaries between art, media, and machine-generated storytelling, SIGNAL ROT interrogates the accelerating cycles of production and consumption in the digital age. The installation is a meditation on the fate of cultural memory in an era of infinite reproduction, asking what is lost&mdash;and what is created&mdash;in the endless churn of algorithmic storytelling.
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《信號衰減》 2025 6 x 6 x 3 米 PVC 窗簾、螢幕、傢俱 
電視長期以來塑造著集體記憶，但當人工智能接管信號時，會發生什麼？《信號衰減》將廣播媒體重新構想為一場演算法奇觀，音樂影片、動畫和實驗內容在此不斷變形和重生。喬恩．拉夫曼在探索數碼文化和虛擬世界的基礎上，構建了一個不斷演變的媒體環境，映射並扭曲了這個超連結時代。作品的核心是拉夫曼與一個小團隊創作的人工智能生成影片，展現新技術如何協助藝術家進行以往需要大量資源才可以完成的工作。裝置加入了「Catastrophonics」，這是由藝術家生成的樂團Iron Tears創作的作品系列。由四部分組成的作品將人工智能虛構的災害剪輯成催眠的影像，體現了科技介入和集體創傷的主題。觀眾在這個改裝的下沉車廂中觀看影片，封閉的空間強化了窺視和脆弱的感覺，挑戰了觀眾與介入事故的連繫，模糊了在螢幕主導的時代下觀眾與參與者的界線。作品參照MTV黃金時代的集體體驗，將懷舊與自動化交織，融合人類創造的檔案與合成再造。由此產生了一個混合空間，文化記憶在其中不斷重塑，反映了數碼平台如何循環利用、操縱和碎片化當代生活的視覺詞彙。作品模糊了藝術、媒體和機器生成敘事之間的界限，質問數碼時代加速的生產和消費循環。《信號衰減》思考文化記憶在無限複製時代中的命運，探討在演算法敘事的無盡循環中，甚麼被丟失，又有甚麼被創造。
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Born 1981 in Montreal Lives and works in Los Angeles 
1981年出生於滿地可 現於洛杉磯生活和工作

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