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Gif
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The Digital Materiality of GIFs
A web project exploring the GIF as a medium with its own digital materiality — artifacts, compression, looping, and the way the format's constraints shape the aesthetics it produces. A media theory perspective on a ubiquitous internet form.
gifpop: Animated GIFs as Physical Lenticular Prints
gifpop launched publicly in December 2013 — a service that converts animated GIFs into physical lenticular prints you can hold. Lenticular printing creates the illusion of motion from a static card by showing different frames at different viewing angles.
Animated GIF to Be Beamed Into Space
The Verge covered Lone Signal, a project that let anyone beam messages (including animated GIFs) to a star system using a radio telescope in New Jersey. The first animated GIF transmitted into space was a novelty stunt, but Lone Signal was an earnest attempt at crowdsourced SETI.
GIF Creator Steve Wilhite Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby
NYT Bits blog on Steve Wilhite receiving a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 for inventing the GIF format in 1987. The occasion for Wilhite to definitively pronounce it 'JIF' — a declaration that settled nothing.