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 ...

First off, what is a GIF, we hear some of you ask? Well, it stands for Graphics Interchange Format and is traditionally used to mean an animated image of some kind (sort of like a Boomerang but it ...

That up there might look like some very cool but not particularly unusual street art. And that's pretty much what it is, if you were to see it on the London street where it lives. But that physical ...

Since his early exposure to video game consoles and computers—an Atari at five, a Commodore 64 at seven, and an Amiga at thirteen—Mert Keskin, better known as Haydiroket, has always been drawn to the ...

"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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Some people say he created the silkscreen canvases because his mother fashioned tin flowers out of the cans. Others say he just liked eating Campbell’s Soup. Artist Gustavo Fajardo was drawn to the ...

In the last year or so, the animated format known as GIF has finally made its way from the default Tumblr reaction format to an art form. (Netizens have known there was an art to the GIF for years, ...

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 ...