{"id":1590,"date":"2026-07-02T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:08:00","slug":"jon-rafman-the-fan-art-is-more-interesting-than-the-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Jon Rafman: \u201cThe Fan Art Is More Interesting than the Canon\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/17294\/jon-rafman-interview-msm-vol2-book-alix-ross-liam-denhamer?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=jon-rafman-the-fan-art-is-more-interesting-than-the-canon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/5\/475250.jpg\" alt=\"Main-Stream-Media-Network_2025-2026_3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Few artists manage to capture how it feels to live inside the modern internet with such fidelity to the real, dizzying experience as <\/span><strong>Jon Rafman<\/strong><span>. In the 2025 video and installation Main Stream Media Network, the Canadian artist displayed music, images and music videos from a cast of imaginary artists \u2013 including Cloudy Heart, Pledged Torment, Iron Tears, and Flux Arcana \u2013\u00a0working in niche and newly invented genres, and realised with the assistance of AI.hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/17294\/jon-rafman-interview-msm-vol2-book-alix-ross-liam-denhamer?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=jon-rafman-the-fan-art-is-more-interesting-than-the-canon\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14741\/msm-vol-2-by-jon-rafman\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=jon-rafman-the-fan-art-is-more-interesting-than-the-canon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/71-444-1266-844\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/5\/475240.jpeg\" alt=\"Jon Rafman MSM Vol 2\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14741\/msm-vol-2-by-jon-rafman\/1?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=jon-rafman-the-fan-art-is-more-interesting-than-the-canon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/86-252-1365-910\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/5\/475241.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Rafman MSM Vol 2\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14741\/msm-vol-2-by-jon-rafman\/2?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=jon-rafman-the-fan-art-is-more-interesting-than-the-canon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/72-146-604-403\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/5\/475242.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Rafman MSM Vol 2\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14741\/msm-vol-2-by-jon-rafman\/3?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=jon-rafman-the-fan-art-is-more-interesting-than-the-canon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-945-630\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/5\/475244.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Rafman MSM Vol 2\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14741\/msm-vol-2-by-jon-rafman\/4?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=jon-rafman-the-fan-art-is-more-interesting-than-the-canon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-1012-675\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/5\/475245.jpg\" alt=\"Cloudy-Tales_I-am-the-only-WIFI-connection-in-the-\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14741\/msm-vol-2-by-jon-rafman\/5?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=jon-rafman-the-fan-art-is-more-interesting-than-the-canon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-1012-675\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/5\/475246.jpg\" alt=\"Cloudy-Tales_I-am-the-only-WIFI-connection-in-the-\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14741\/msm-vol-2-by-jon-rafman\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=jon-rafman-the-fan-art-is-more-interesting-than-the-canon\">View Gallery (10 images)<\/a>nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few artists manage to capture how it feels to live inside the modern internet with such fidelity to the real, dizzying experience as Jon Rafman. In the 2025 video and installation Main Stream Media Network, the Canadian artist displayed music,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}