{"id":1311,"date":"2014-01-25T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T19:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2014-01-25T19:02:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T19:02:35","slug":"but-is-gif-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/but-is-gif-art\/","title":{"rendered":"But is Gif Art?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/watts-the-minotaur.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"854\" height=\"1064\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1312\" style=\"width: 100%;\" alt=\"watts-the-minotaur\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/watts-the-minotaur.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come across a couple of interesting projects this week involving animated gifs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-britain\/special-event\/1840s-gif-party-call-submissions\">1840s GIF party: call for submissions | Tate<\/a> and<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/giftheportrait.tumblr.com\/\">The GIF the Portrait Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/jjgifs.tumblr.com\/tagged\/1840s-GIF-Party\" title=\"jjgifs\">giffed a few images<\/a> from the the Take 1840 exhibition. I then to find animating gifs as an end in itself, it is interesting that the both these projects seem to be thinking them as art.(there are some amazing examples at <a href=\"http:\/\/tatecollectives.tumblr.com\/\">Tate Collectives<\/a> tumblr).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/bavatuesdays.com\/the-academic-gif\/\">The Academic GIF<\/a>  where Jim Groom is talking about how to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> integrate animated GIFs into a curriculum centred around film analysis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Tate challenge has become a ds106 Assignment, which already has some submissions, <a href=\"http:\/\/bionicteaching.com\/museum-remixes\/\">Tom Woodward producing<\/a> beautifully subtle and a much more dramatic version of the same painting. <a href=\"http:\/\/cogdogblog.com\/2014\/01\/23\/giffing-it-1872\/\" title=\"GIFfing it Like it Was 1872 - CogDogBlog\">Alan Levine puts<\/a> both subtlety and humour in the same gif.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giffight.tumblr.com\/post\/74283215116\/special-giffight-edition-animate-the-crap-out-of\">GIF FIGHT!! has a Special 1840 Edition<\/a>  which is <a href=\"http:\/\/giffight.tumblr.com\/tagged\/tate-britain\" title=\"GIF FIGHT!!\">filling up.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the tate gifs I&#8217;ve changed tactics a little. I&#8217;ve been using photoshop to split the images into layers before switching to Fireworks for animation. Photoshop has superior selection tools.<\/p>\n<p>I an unsure if anything I&#8217;ve done is Art but it is interesting in lots of different ways, from visual puns and jokes through problem solving. I wonder if gifs could become part of an arts curriculum in schools?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come across a couple of interesting projects this week involving animated gifs. 1840s GIF party: call for submissions | Tate and The GIF the Portrait Project. So far I&#8217;ve giffed a few images from the the Take 1840 exhibition. I then to find animating gifs as an end in itself, it is interesting that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/but-is-gif-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;But is Gif Art?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74,49],"tags":[84,150],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animatedgif","category-assignment","tag-animatedgifassignments","tag-animatedgifassignments1248"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RLlC-l9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}