GIF Free For All
In early September I participated in the GIF Free For All online ehxibition, launched in conjunction with Computer Art Congress 4 - CAC4 Rio de Janeiro, and curated by A. Bill Miller. More info:
Animated GIFs can be created by anyone and are about anything. The animated GIF is ubiquitous and democratic. Online, it’s proliferation coincides with the developing ways we use the Internet. As a unique and accessible moving image filetype, animated GIF functions on the logic of openness and distributed networks in a time of increasing data surveillance and restrictions to access by governing bodies and corporate capitalization of data-spaces.