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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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, ...

Tumblr and SmartWater are sponsoring “Move the Still,” a GIF art exhibition that goes far beyond “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” GIFs. Moving the Still is a GIF Festival that is currently seeking ...

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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Last week, on the occasion of its 25th birthday, we commented on the GIF as an art form. This week, we talked with GIF extraordinaire/designer Matthew DiVito about the medium, and what it’s like to ...

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 ...