Welcome to part three 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” and ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The GIFs that Trevor Van Meter creates are not the sort that most people know through social media. Instead of short, looping video clips sourced from movies ...

Surveying the selections for Moving the Still, the recent curated show of animated GIFs at this year’s Art Basel Miami, it’s evident how much the GIF has matured, both as a file format and as an ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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, ...

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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 ...