But nobody else could fill one niche that GIF had cornered: animated images. And so ... is shared,” Eppink wrote in an article on the history of GIFs for the Journal of Visual Culture.

Recent images tend to be supersized ... Read part one of Paddy Johnson’s brief history of animated GIF art here, and stay tuned for the next installment, which will address the rise of Tumblr ...

If I had to explain the Internet to an E.T., I’d call up a bunch of animated GIFs. They’re the purest distillation of the web, its unofficial universal language. If I had to explain the ...

The image is the ‘colour map’ from Disney Animated, the latest Touch Press iPad app, which is released today. The London-based company is known for obsessively detailed titles such as The Elements, ...

The motion picture in question is An Animated History of Poland, screened at the Polish Pavilion at the Shanghai EXPO 2010. The film - or to use the Platige Image studio's own terminology - "the ...

Appropriately, Sean Pecknold created "A Short Animated History of the GIF" for the Moving the Still exhibition we covered at Art Basel Miami. Watch the video above, produced in collaboration with ...

Welcome to part three of this brief journey through the rich history of one ... Given the sheer volume of animated GIF art that appears on Tumblr, I’ve culled a few images in an attempt to ...