The future might soon see less canvas and more electronics, as the originals of a particular masterpiece are stashed away in some maximum security building, while the replicas are displayed using a flat panel display or over a projector. Well, animated GIFs are starting to gain mainstream traction instead of being irritating addendum to an e-mail, where they have started to appear as an art form at a London exhibit. The exhibition is known as “Born in 1987: The Animated GIF”, where it was launched at The Photographers’ Gallery while boasting over 40 animated GIFs that were created by artists of different disciplines. Majority of the artists who took to the task say that this was their maiden attempt with the medium.

The gallery comes with a dedicated a garage-door-size screen in order to display the digital creations, where among them include a woman who is clad in a sarong twirling a hoola-hoop, while another featured a shifting block of squares as well as a landscape with a trio of trees which will subtly sway whenever there is a breeze. Guess there is no 4D effect here, as no wind is felt even when the trees move.

Katrina Sluis, the curator of a digital series that begins with the animated GIF exhibit, mentiond, “In a world where most Digital SLR cameras can shoot high definition video, digital technology raises questions concerning what a photograph is and how we make sense of it. Our opening show embraces the animated GIF as a uniquely screen-based image.”

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