Too Creepy For YouTube: Here’s Jon Rafman’s New Oneohtrix Point Never Music Video
September 25, 2013 | Kyle Chayka
Earlier this morning, Oneohtrix Point Never released a new music video directed by Jon Rafman, a contemporary artist currently exhibiting at Zach Feuer gallery. It was pulled from YouTube within minutes for what we can only assume was the brief inclusion of creepy anime porn.
Unfortunately the new video for @0pn has been removed by YouTube. We’re currently working on getting it back up, stay tuned.
On second thought, after finally watching the music video in its entirety which is new being hosted on Vimeo, thanks to their much more laid-back policies on explicit content –– the video is still a pretty damn creepy, eye-searing collage of found imagery of computer hoarders and fetishists.
Experimental music of Brooklyn-based producer Oneohtrix Point Never releases some amazing music projects -- from artist Takeshi Murata's immaculate hyperealistic CGI still life to the too-creepy-for-YouTube video by artist Jon Rafman to the collaboration with artist Cory Arcangel that we had to crack through layers outmoded digital tools just to even listen to (key word: "artist").…
As internet-based art proliferates, it's fascinating to watch work that is rooted in the digital as it migrate into the world of physical art spaces. The success of these transitions is varied, but Jon Rafman's practice is endlessly fascinating. His exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis opening tomorrow feels likely to…
The artist Takeshi Murata's work successfully combines advanced methods of hyperrealistic computer rendering along with the stylistic subversions of still-life painting. However, despite the differences between these two methods the artist's photo-based work seems to remain simultaneously playful yet meditative. The artist who has most recently shown his work at Salon…
