Report a Concern - Nine Eyes 2008-25

This comprehensive catalogue accompanies the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's fall 2025 exhibition "Report a Concern – The Nine Eyes Archives," presenting the most extensive showcase to date of Jon Rafman's groundbreaking Nine Eyes series. The exhibition features over 50 large-scale framed street views in scenographic environments designed in collaboration with the artist, displaying selections from Rafman's vast archive of Google Street View snapshots. Street View images are captured by a fleet of cars outfitted with a pole mounting nine cameras at its top—hence the project's title, Nine Eyes of Google Street View.

Jon Rafman (b. 1981, Montreal) is a Canadian artist renowned for multifaceted work that revolves around our relationship with digital technologies and surveillance. After studying literature and philosophy, he gained a master's degree in visual arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His complex practice encompasses video, animation, installation, and sculpture, focusing on everyday life, dreams, fantasies, loss, and grief in relation to digital technology. The story behind Nine Eyes dates back to 2007, when Google sent an army of hybrid cars on a never-ending mission equipped with nine cameras, GPS and laser scanners to photograph every highway, country road and dirt path in the world.

This 465-page publication features 450 color images alongside four essays by Mathias Ussing Seeberg, Poul Erik Tøjner, Mieke Bal, and Norman M. Klein, providing critical context for understanding Rafman's pioneering work. Rafman began creating an archive of these images in 2008, collecting them from countless blogs and websites, as well as becoming part of the culture and finding his own images. Nine Eyes is considered Rafman's breakthrough work and focuses on both the everyday and existential aspects of life in a digital surveillance society. The project is a never-ending work that continues to be updated by the artist, standing as a milestone both in Rafman's career and in the history of 21st century art.

Rafman's work is associated with the post-internet art movement and has been exhibited at prestigious biennales including the Venice Biennale, Lyon Biennale, and Berlin Biennale. His work is held in major museum collections including MoMA in New York, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and MAXXI in Rome. This is the first full-scale museum presentation of the Nine Eyes project, marking the exhibition's significance in bringing this pioneering digital-age work to a museum context.