AMT Rendez-vous #2: Olia Lialina

GIF, JIF, GFY and other Jifpegs The future of the Animated GIF & how to stop it

Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Parsons Paris, 301
45 rue Saint-Roch, 75001 Paris, France

GIF, JIF, GFY and other Jifpegs The future of the Animated GIF & how to stop it
Animated GIFs of the 1990s were rarely perfect. They either moved too fast or too slow, “jumped” at junctions, or contained forgotten pixels. Yet no matter how funny and unprofessional early animated GIFs appeared, they were animated. The figures or objects were in constant action—running, dancing, rotating around the sun, or working on an endless construction. With the new millennium came new GIFs, created with new tools. GIFs became professional, perfect, but static. The talk will uncover the history of the GIFs, different genres and periods and their changing role in web design as well as amateur culture.

The Speaker: Olia Lialina is a net art pioneer and Animated GIF Model and Digital Folklore researcher originally from Moscow.