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Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art
You can satisfy your low-brow GIF cravings on sites like 4chan or the countless GIF-glorifying Tumblrs like GIF Party and Fuck Yeah GIFs. A step above is the image-based chat site…

May 19 2011, 11:50am | Comments
Bookmark Graphics Interchange Format At Denison University's Mulberry ...
Since the early days of the web, users have been posting animated GIFs. Once synonymous with shoveling construction workers on parked domains, these moving images now more commonly find their way…

May 19 2011, 11:48am | Comments
Bookmark The glorious GIF renaissance
GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that sluggish…

May 17 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Ask Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc.…

May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments
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Animated GIF Archaeology... Anybody have any hints on resources, essays, papers, websites about this most wonderful of glitchy phenomena?

May 16 2011, 7:00am | Comments
Bookmark Gif art without the glitch
I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs. The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners…

April 25 2011, 5:07pm | Comments
Bookmark The Year of The Animated Gif
2010 is the year of the animated gif. They are everywhere. Tumblr’s Three Frames, a site that posts only gifs drawn from movies on a daily basis is recommended to me…

October 12 2010, 2:47am | Comments
Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As…

December 8 2009, 5:44am | Comments

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