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

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Emilio Gomariz explores a large area of different digital environments. He uses the computer to create imaginary spaces and sculptures, which most often are exported and published online as a GIF. Some of his pieces show his interest on fields affected by glitches and errors.Inspired by computers and their interface, Emilio works on desktop performances, creating various kind of manifestations by the use of Mac OS X.His work has recently been included in shows at Fach & Asendorf Gallery, (Internet), NOVA Festival, (Sao Paulo, BR), Monster Truck Gallery (Dublin, IR), SPAMM (Internet), Centre d’Art Bastille (Grenoble, FR), Hex Pixel Gallery (Kansas City, US), bubblebyte (Internet) and several BYOB and SPEED SHOWs around the world.

This is a low-res version of this work where frames might be missing. Please click on the image to see a high-res version.

Emilio Gomariz explores a large area of different digital environments. He uses the computer to create imaginary spaces and sculptures, which most often are exported and published online as a GIF. Some of his pieces show his interest on fields affected by glitches and errors.
Inspired by computers and their interface, Emilio works on desktop performances, creating various kind of manifestations by the use of Mac OS X.

His work has recently been included in shows at Fach & Asendorf Gallery, (Internet), NOVA Festival, (Sao Paulo, BR), Monster Truck Gallery (Dublin, IR), SPAMM (Internet), Centre d’Art Bastille (Grenoble, FR), Hex Pixel Gallery (Kansas City, US), bubblebyte (Internet) and several BYOB and SPEED SHOWs around the world.

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