Animated Gif As Art

Cinemagraph d'objets ou de gens tournants autour d'un axe par, selon leur compte Twitter, un groupe d'amis au Japon. Deux nouveaux GIF par semaine depuis avril 2012.

In the early days of the Web there was a lot of experimenting going on. It was a brand new world where almost anything seemed possible. Decades later, many of those dreams have come true and new dreams have been born.

Les collages grotesques de Colin Raff, artiste visuel et écrivain, installé à Berlin.

Interview de l'auteur en anglais sur le blog Elvis in Hawaii
http://elvisinh.blogspot.com/2008/10/normal-0-14-false-false-false.html

Un extrait:
"[...]Image manipulation. I begin by selecting elements as for a collage, but today’s exciting appliances further allow one to scale, skew, fondle and otherwise perturb the source material so that the result is alien to the ingredients.

I should mention that I am actually a writer (by trade, temperament, and grander intent), and view this visual work simply as ornament, subordinate to the text. When a piece of mine is purely graphic, I see it as assuming the condition of text, and when it operates completely outside of narrative, then to me it has adopted a complementary role by performing some extra-literary function. These relations are always present, if not apparent. Anyway, synthesizing an original image out of found sources is not unlike composing a sentence out of extant words.[...]"

"The waiting is action itself: it's a movement aiming to something that is going to happen. Bluring the line beteewn the artist and the viewer, I create a paradox: while the waiting has an ending, here, thanks to the loop, it becomes endless.This work is site specific for The Widget Art Gallery, a dashboard virtual gallery created by the new media artist Chiara Passa<"

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http://www.facebook.com/mathwrath/info

"Further Abstracts seems to be a forming contemporary statement on the classic theoretical and ideological assertions of Alloro's later studies in the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany. In pen drawings on architectural paper, later developed into short frenetic animation pieces, Alloro revives the Bauhaus movement's celebrated core symbols (the triangle, square and circle), only to subvert their refined ideology of functional beauty. Replacing iconic solid colors with a hyper-saturated radiance, the bare technical grid-aesthetics of these corrupted Bauhaus designs render the modern myth of functionality obsolete. Lacking a decisive objective or directing ideology, Alloro's practice parades these founding modernistic national elements into an amusing low-tech salad of dysfunctional glitch. Just like the action of a frustrated web user, stubbornly re-clicking on a computer icon whose link is broken, the line between distinct function and abstract causality breaks down."

Gabriel S. Moses

"Born Tel Aviv 1982 Alma Alloro is an artist, musician and performer from Tel Aviv. She is rooted in the backyard of popular culture using diversified media from drawing, installation, music, and animation to internet; her recent works focus on the correlation between old media and new media. Alloro studied “Fine Art and Education” at the Midrasha school of Art, and received her MFA in “New Artistic Strategies” from Bauhaus-University Weimar. She lives and works in Berlin, operating out of Studio74 and performing chipmusic under the alias Bikecore."

http://www.almaalloro.com/

"In “Lambeaux”, the television stream is taken as raw material, a material lacerated by a process of motion capture which extract in real time all the pixel that have changed during the broadcast. Those fragments are captured and recast, in a spatial-temporal way, on a twenty-four images loop.

The accumulation process takes place within the contours of past images and the way pixels are then reorganized in real time produces a jagged image with unreal effects - a ghostly memory of the video flux, a colourful palimpsest where fragments of motion and time coexist.

Lambeaux will be exhibited as a live video installation (using local TV broadcast) in Le Hublot at Nice, France from the 17th of March to the 8th of April 2012."

Nicolas Boillot

"A cinemagraph series, Diego Agulló, Agata Siniarska divided in 3 acts: Breatless, FIngering and La petite mort."
"Diego Agulló graduated in Philosophy and Music aesthetics Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Multidisciplinary artist, he is since 2005 based in Berlin crossing the fields of video, dance, music and philosophy."

http://cargocollective.com/diegoagullo/About

http://vimeo.com/agatasiniarska
http://agatasiniarska.blogspot.fr/

My Favourite Childhood Nightmares - Marcel Meyer Cinemagraphs - 2012 + a making of.

"Artist Kazumasa Teshigawara explains his powerful and deeply personal rendering of the earthquake and tsunami that turned Japan—and the lives of its citizens—upside down last year.[...]

Over the course of the following week, Teshigawara created Today’s Smile, a powerful Flash animation that uses lines, music, and light to recreate the nuclear fallout and the anxiety the events caused. The animation has since been turned into a GIF animation by David Ope that has collected more than 740 notes on Tumblr in less than 24 hours.[...]"