Pittsburgh’s VIA is hosting a T.GIF Tournament. Vote now and every day through April 7th, until the best GIF wins (a gift certificate to Gifpop!, the indie resource that allows digital artist to print lenticulars of their GIFs.) We’ve written about several artists in this show but the best part is to watch the show-down in this bracket. RA RA RA GO TEAM GIF!
T.GIF is a March Madness tourney for original animated gifs. Net art all_stars and at-large entries by artists from around the world (US, Canada, China, Spain, United Kingdom and more) go up against one another in a battle for ultimate gif supremacy. It is the public who decides who has created the ultimate .gif by casting a daily vote.
Some of our favorites are the Mitch Posada way above, this Jacob Ciocci:
Artists Evan Roth (F.A.T., Graffiti Research Lab, Eye-Writer) and Geoffrey Lillemon (holy shit look at his website) teamed up for a new project, Image-of-Edessa. Image-of-Edessa explores the notion of worship, the Internet and identity. A portrait is rendered entirely of animated gifs, a medium native to the web and commonly used to represent…
Artist Evan Roth has love for the GIF. Here's his set of ten new One Gif Compositions, all created from single vintage GIF from the Heather’s Animations archive, chronicling early GIFs from as far back as 1999. You can see A Tribute To Heather in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, through…
Welcome to the next few hours of your day: Chris Shier created gifmelter, a bookmarklet that turns any GIF or static image into a pixelated, decomposing swirl. It's grotesque and beautiful and mesmerizing and you should just take a look at it and stop reading this now. Paste the URL…
