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 ...

WWF legend The Ultimate Warrior stands in front of a U.W. branded background, shirtless and in full guise. His chest is wet with sweat, muscles flexed to full suspension and nipples sharp enough to ...

Digital art has long existed in the ethereal gray space between actual, physical art and performance art. While it isn’t a tangible object, like a painting or a sculpture, it does continue to exist ...

In 1987, an engineer named Steve Wilhite at the internet service provider Compuserve invented a compression algorithm to make downloading and sending images through the web easier—effectively creating ...

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 ...

Surveying the selections for Moving the Still, the recent curated show of animated GIFs at this year’s Art Basel Miami, it’s evident how much the GIF has matured, both as a file format and as an ...

Auctions are built on drama. The thrilling scent of possibility hangs in the room. Sleek, precisely manicured men and women confidently throw up paddles, wagering thick stacks of cash on beautiful ...

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, ...

If you’ve ever worked in an office, used social media, or texted anyone under the age of about 35, you’ve seen gifs. And it’s almost certain – even if you aren’t aware of it – that you’ve seen Giphy.

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 ...