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GIF it Up: The Year of the Animated Still

A Wall of Digital Art Showcases Award-Winning Ventures into the Ever Booming File Format

A grid of GIFs provides a perpetual-motion montage for today’s Art Basel Miami Beach exclusive, specially curated by NOWNESS from responses to an open call from virtual auction house Paddle8 and microblogging giant Tumblr. The images are among a selection that will be displayed at Moving the Still, an exhibition taking place this week in the Floridian paradise, devoted to fresh examples of the digital art form and the first effort of its kind. This follows Oxford Dictionaries USA’s recent decision to name “GIF” their Word of the Year, and for many observers 2012 has seen the quirky, now 25-year-old file type transform itself from the preserve of dancing baby animations into a nuanced, serious creative tool. “GIFs are now becoming huge because this is officially the Share Generation,” says Moving the Still’s Chief Council Member and The New York Times’ T Magazine columnist Johnny Misheff. The open call's 3,500 submissions were whittled down by luminary judges including Roselee Goldberg, Michael Stipe and Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Misheff predicts a healthy future for the cross-disciplinary GIF, chiming with our quest for ever-faster returns: “They have got to be amazing in the first 1.5 seconds, or people are going to keep moving on to the next thing.” 

Our selection of GIF masters from the open call:

Top row (from left): “Tape Loop” by Cristine Brache; “Too Much Noise by Promoz Zorko; “Untitled” by Monté Patterson

Second row: “Moving a Picture” by DoBeDo; “Gushers” by Brantley Now & Eddie The Wheel; “Ferris Wheel” by Gretta Louw

Final row: “Jessica” by Francesca Tallone; “Karaoke Glitch” by Nellie Van Dyke; “O” by Philip W Patton

To view the artworks chosen by Selection Council members as well as the online Moving the Still exhibition, click here. Access a vast selection of GIFs submitted via the open call here. The exhibition is open for viewing December 5 - 8, 12pm - 7pm daily at 318 NW 23rd Street, near the Rubell Collection and Wynwood Walls. 
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  • Ellvis
    <a href="http://bit.ly/Z3eko5" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/Z3eko5</a> my own contribution dripbook.com/elliotdavies
    • Posted By Ellvis
    • January 04, 2013 at 10:39AM
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  • lanats
    I saw so many amazing, beautiful and well elaborated gifs on the Moving The Still tumblr that I'm amazed that the selection does not represent at all the amazing talent of gif artists... I wish people could see all the other gifs and watch all those animated concepts, ideas and feelings that are moving the tumblr community. :)
    • Posted By lanats
    • December 04, 2012 at 10:35AM
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