In part one of a three-part history of animated GIF art, Paddy Johnson covers Cory Arcangel, Chuck Poynter, Paper Rad, Tom Moody, and more. ... Chuck Poynter, Dancing Girl (1995).

The GIF was part of a web-art series called “My boyfriend came back from the war,” which allowed visitors to chose their own experience by clicking on different words and images.

She ultimately chose to create animated GIFs instead of another form of art because of how well they fit into text conversations and how popular they are on social platforms like Twitter.

It's also not the only one of its kind. Mock has contributed a handful of these animated images to the Times–all collaborations with Erich Nagler, an art director for the paper."I first noticed ...

Surveying the selections for Moving the Still, the recent curated show of animated GIFs at this year’s Art Basel Miami, it’s evident how much the GIF has matured, both as a file format and as ...

His most recent GIF-iti project was a collaboration with artist Stanley Donwood, who has long done art for Radiohead and Thom Yorke. INSA and Donwood teamed up to make a GIF on the XL Recordings ...

To date, the term “AI art” has meant “static images.” No longer. Meta is showing off Make-A-Video, where the company is combining AI art and interpolation to create short, looping video GIFs.