IINNPPUUTT

May. 18, 2011 at 10:24pm with 33 notes

Reblogged from reaktorplayer

prostheticknowledge:

Tom Moody – Gold Machine Cosmos
A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art (via The Creators Project)

The past week we’ve seen a lot of chatter about how cinemagraphs are elevating the GIF to fine art, thanks in large part to an article in The Atlantic that ruffled some feathers in the art community. And while there’s no denying that the GIF is undergoing an unlikely renaissance some 20 years after it first showed up to animate our web experience in 1987—with art critics like Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City calling 2010 the Year of the Animated GIF (a statement she apparently believed fervently enough to curate a show about them this year) and Rhizome director Lauren Cornell selling GIFs at the traditionally conservative NY Armory Show this March—the cinemagraph can hardly take credit for the GIF’s transition from chat rooms and message boards to the white walls of the fine art world.
We won’t waste any space chronicling the rich and multi-faceted history of the GIF here (read Joshua Kopstein‘s excellent post “The GIF That Keeps On GIFing” for that instead), but we thought it worthwhile to take a survey of some of the best GIF artworks we’ve seen on the web lately, as well as the places to find and create more of them, should you be so inclined.

More text and plenty of examples can be found here

Tom Moody – Gold Machine Cosmos

A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art (via The Creators Project)

The past week we’ve seen a lot of chatter about how cinemagraphs are elevating the GIF to fine art, thanks in large part to an article in The Atlantic that ruffled some feathers in the art community. And while there’s no denying that the GIF is undergoing an unlikely renaissance some 20 years after it first showed up to animate our web experience in 1987—with art critics like Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City calling 2010 the Year of the Animated GIF (a statement she apparently believed fervently enough to curate a show about them this year) and Rhizome director Lauren Cornell selling GIFs at the traditionally conservative NY Armory Show this March—the cinemagraph can hardly take credit for the GIF’s transition from chat rooms and message boards to the white walls of the fine art world.

We won’t waste any space chronicling the rich and multi-faceted history of the GIF here (read Joshua Kopstein‘s excellent post “The GIF That Keeps On GIFing” for that instead), but we thought it worthwhile to take a survey of some of the best GIF artworks we’ve seen on the web lately, as well as the places to find and create more of them, should you be so inclined.

More text and plenty of examples can be found here