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 ...

First off, what is a GIF, we hear some of you ask? Well, it stands for Graphics Interchange Format and is traditionally used to mean an animated image of some kind (sort of like a Boomerang but it ...

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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, ...

In the last year or so, the animated format known as GIF has finally made its way from the default Tumblr reaction format to an art form. (Netizens have known there was an art to the GIF for years, ...

We talk to Philip Intile, a rising star in the GIF world and the 16-year-old founder of the GIF Artist Collective. The collective is two-fold: there’s the public collective in the form of the Tumblr ...

A gif by A.L. Crego of stencil art in La Coruña by Erre (image via Tumblr) A. L. Crego composes playful, bizarre GIFs from other people’s street art. Where lines and shapes were formerly static, ...

The Gypsy Astronaut is a GIFs-only Tumblr with subjects ranging from 1920s silent film to Monty Python to Ghost World to David Bowie to miscellany so obscure it’s impossible to imagine that the source ...

Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering Microsoft, gaming, and technology you sometimes wear. He previously wrote for ReadWrite, was a news associate at the social-news app Flipboard, ...

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 ...