What does the history of GIF art look like? This is a tricky question to answer because while there has been no shortage of animated GIF exhibitions, there is a dearth of documentation. Bond Street, a ...

Digital art has long existed in the ethereal gray space between actual, physical art and performance art. While it isn’t a tangible object, like a painting or a sculpture, it does continue to exist ...

This past summer, I sat down to think how I might incorporate more technology into my Art 1 classroom. My students had already created digital portfolios, but I wanted something more hands on, ...

A gif by A.L. Crego of stencil art in La Coruña by Erre (image via Tumblr) A. L. Crego composes playful, bizarre GIFs from other people’s street art. Where lines and shapes were formerly static, ...

"It's difficult to call this one a GIF because it crosses so many borders" said Nick Dangerfield, a co-founder of virtual reality startup Mona, nodding towards a sculpture named "Staircase" in the ...

Philip Intile is a rising star in high school. He already has his eye on a potential career path: one that loops on and on and on. He's only 16, but Intile is an artist (known as Pi-Slices in the GIF ...

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An installation in the New York Museum of the Moving Image presents contemporary art GIFs in their original format, on the computers used to build them. Reading time 4 minutes There’s something about ...

A Jilly Ballistic and Ryan Seslow collaboration (all images courtesy the artists) Street art and GIFs might seem an unlikely pair: the former exists out in the physical world, often only fleetingly, ...

If you’ve ever worked in an office, used social media, or texted anyone under the age of about 35, you’ve seen gifs. And it’s almost certain – even if you aren’t aware of it – that you’ve seen Giphy.

Welcome to part four of this brief journey through the rich history of one of the newest and most popular art forms, the animated GIF. The previous installments are “The Early Years: 1997–2008”, ...