by Paddy Johnson on September 17, 2015
In 2013 Chicago based artists Eric Fleischauer, Jason Lazarus and Curatorial Assistant Theodore Darst released twohundredfiftysixcolors, a 97 minute silent feature made entirely with animated GIFs. It’s everything you can imagine: rotating time icons, explosions, flying horses and just about anything else. I discussed the movie at length last year, but given that I’m in Chicago for the EXPO art fair, it seemed only appropriate to repost an excerpt for the occasion. There’s at least one sequence of people running in this except, which couldn’t feel more appropriate for an art fair.
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by Whitney Kimball on October 16, 2014
If you didn’t read Paddy Johnson’s review of the film Twohundredandfiftysixcolors, a feature-length film made of 3,000 GIFS, I recommend checking it out. It’s a good assessment of how GIFs translate to film by somebody who’s been watching the scene for many years from the perspective of both a net-art and cat fanatic.
Johnson finds a point of contention in Kevin Bewersdorf‘s “Mandala” because it had to be compressed to fit the video, and its meaning changes when it’s in a sequence of other GIFs about getting high. We’re on the Internet, but you gotta draw the line somewhere.
Johnson has a soft spot for the piece because she curated this particular work into her 2011 show Graphics Interchange Format and before that it was made in 2008. #tbt
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