About The Show

The Photographers' Gallery has launched its new digital programme with Born in 1987: The Animated GIF, an exhibition devoted to this overlooked image format native to the web and the computer screen. The exhibition features over 40 GIF images by practitioners from a range of creative disciplines. For many, this was their first opportunity to experiment with the medium. The resulting GIFs range from the graphic to the photographic, the subtle to the psychedelic, and demonstrate a wide diversity of approaches which respond to the GIF's particular history and aesthetic qualities. The GIFs on this website are also viewable on The Wall, a 2.7 x 3m Sharp Video Wall located on the ground floor of our gallery in Ramillies Street, London. From 17th June, these works will be joined by a rotating selection of submissions from the public. Instructions on how to contribute can be found here. More information and images of The Wall can be found here.

The Gif Makers

Michele Barker and Anna Munster have collaborated since 1995, exhibiting extensively both in Australia and internationally. Their work integrates photographic, video and interactive installation practices, addressing processes of perception, embodiment and scientific/medical visualization. Their most recent work, HokusPokus, is a multiple screen interactive artwork that uses illusionistic and performative aspects of magical tricks to explore the cross-modality of human perception. It takes inspiration from recent neuroscientific interest in magic as a way to understand the interrelations between vision and movement in perception.Michele Barker is a senior lecturer at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. Anna Munster is an Associate Professor, the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. She is the author of Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics and her most recent book An Aesthesia of Networks, is will be published in 2013 (MIT Press).http://sensesofperception.info/

Michele Barker and Anna Munster have collaborated since 1995, exhibiting extensively both in Australia and internationally. Their work integrates photographic, video and interactive installation practices, addressing processes of perception, embodiment and scientific/medical visualization. Their most recent work, HokusPokus, is a multiple screen interactive artwork that uses illusionistic and performative aspects of magical tricks to explore the cross-modality of human perception. It takes inspiration from recent neuroscientific interest in magic as a way to understand the interrelations between vision and movement in perception.

Michele Barker is a senior lecturer at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. Anna Munster is an Associate Professor, the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. She is the author of Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics and her most recent book An Aesthesia of Networks, is will be published in 2013 (MIT Press).

http://sensesofperception.info/

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