Tag: GIF
The group exhibition بیت بر ثانیه (Bitrates) opens today at the Dar-ol-Hokoomeh Project in Shiraz, Iran. It will feature a selection from GIFbites curated by Daniel Rourke, who asked 50 artists to create and pair an animated GIF with audio snippets. The complete GIFbites has been streaming online in loop at ad infinitum at Bitrates.GIFbites.com. Accordingly, the above neon-rainbow-hued […]
The scent of baby wipes and powder is overwhelming inside the small installation space at Kianga Ellis Projects. It’s a functioning conceptual component of Nursery, an inaugural exhibition of General Howe’s latest Tumblr project The Animated Disasters of War GIFs. The artist has turned the project room into a fully functioning nursery, complete with a crib and changing station as well […]
Germany-based conceptual artist Kim Asendorf makes undulating, hypnotic, complex gifs. Then why did he send this gif into deep space? Why is this seemingly uneventful gif’s signal being beamed into deep space right now via the Lone Signal METI (Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) experiment, on its 17.6 year journey towards the potentially habitable solar system Gliese 526? Why? Because, as Asendorf tells […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Rick Silva illustrates his work process — “encounters between the tools of digital communication and the unbuilt environment.” He makes new media landscapes on site and is currently exhibiting at TRANSFER gallery in Brooklyn. For the enpleinair.org site/series […]
GIF is pronounced GIF, not JIF, no matter what the tyrannical Steve Wilhite says. Just like George Lucas can go back in time and epically fuck with his greatest creations, so can the man behind the file format decide to name it the wrong thing after the fact. Comedian/songwriter Jonathan Mann recognizes this, and wrote […]
I have some beautiful net art for you. Here’s a little bit from the latest GIF series from Emilio Gomariz: RGB landscapes. Reminds us a bit of Nicolas Sassoon, but more colorful. Anyway, DISCLAIMER: Possibly seizure-inducing new net art below. Enjoy. […]
