Art
Hypnotic GIFs of Victorian Optical Toys
Long before the time of Disney and Pixar, artists made images move using a variety of -scopes and -tropes.
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Art
Ceci N'Est Pas un Gif: Animating Magritte
Raphaëlle Martin has published a new set of Magritte-inspired animations that demonstrates how much more bizarre the Surrealist’s paintings can be when brought to life and played on a loop.
Art
The 1,000-Year GIF
Titled "AS Long As Possible," the GIF work features 48,140,288 frames, and each will last for about 10 minutes. The file will reach its end only in the year 3017 — until it loops back to frame number one.
Art
Flickery Nonsense for the Overworked Motion Designer
For motion designers with clients demanding flashy movement that is in fact total nonsense, Vancouver-based art director and motion designer Peter Quinn created a handy set of 100 pre-made fake user interface (UI) animations.
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Mesmerizing GIFs of Japan's Floating World
Centuries-old Japanese ukiyo-e have received a delightful update, transformed into animated scenes that sometimes include surprising, modern imagery.
Art
GIFs That Bring Street Art to Life
A. L. Crego composes playful, bizarre GIFs from other people's street art.
Art
A Vibrant Portrait of Liberia in GIFs
In Monrovia Animated, Beaurain has produced an unusual form of GIF-as-documentary photo, one that brings to life a far-off locale and makes us consider it in a way we’ve rarely been asked to before.
Art
Remixing the Renaissance as GIFs
By now it's become a familiar trope: Photoshop or GIF something historical, say, Old Masters or old photographs. But just because it's been done doesn't mean it's been done best. And the elaborate GIFs that James Kerr makes from early Northern Renaissance paintings are a hilariously new take on the
Interview
Glitch Expectations: A Conversation with Jon Cates
Describing the world of new media/glitch artist Jon Cates is a labyrinthine task. You might begin with his spontaneous and inventive word-language actions reminiscent of William Burroughs cut-ups; or the hypnotic .gif animations made from seemingly incongruous, discarded fragments of media; or perha
Opinion
Using New Media to Shed Light on Old Art Narratives
The internet is a visual space, where virality comes most frequently to media rich in images, whether videos, animated GIFs or simple memes. Connecting these new forms of media with all the classic ways that human beings have told visual stories is a powerful way to reanimate them, sometimes literal
Opinion
Old Master Paintings Animated
This is what art looks like on drugs.
Art
Subway Street Art Gets on the GIF Train
Artists Jilly Ballistic and Ryan Seslow have recently started creating their own version of GIF-iti.