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

Nicholas Boillot Nicolas Boillot is an artist working with new media. Some of his work is oriented around the notion of information flow. He creates artworks that, through arrangement, accumulation, new configuration, aim to generate possible interpretations, making hidden sides evident, creating new ways to read or interpret information flows.He gained a Master Degree in New media Arts from the University of Poitiers/La Rochelle - Art School of Poitiers / Angoulême, France in 2004 and prior to this a National Superior Art School Diploma from the Art School of Aix en Provence, France in 2003.His artwork has been shown in various new media exhibition including: Fach & Asendorf Gallery (Internet, Stuttgart, Kassel, Germany, 2012), Le Hublot (Nice, France, 2012), La Chambre Blanche, (Quebec city, Canada, 2010), La Bande vidéo (Quebec city, Canada, 2009), Norapolis VI and VII (Metz, France, 2008-2009), the 8th Video, Art and New Media Biennial of Santiago (Santiago, Chile, 2007), Art Tech Media (Spain, 2006), the 25th Viper: International Film, Video & New Media Festival (Basel, Switzerland, 2006) and Symbiosis: Zones of Contact (Luarca, Spain, 2005)

Nicholas Boillot

Nicolas Boillot is an artist working with new media. Some of his work is oriented around the notion of information flow. He creates artworks that, through arrangement, accumulation, new configuration, aim to generate possible interpretations, making hidden sides evident, creating new ways to read or interpret information flows.

He gained a Master Degree in New media Arts from the University of Poitiers/La Rochelle - Art School of Poitiers / Angoulême, France in 2004 and prior to this a National Superior Art School Diploma from the Art School of Aix en Provence, France in 2003.

His artwork has been shown in various new media exhibition including: Fach & Asendorf Gallery (Internet, Stuttgart, Kassel, Germany, 2012), Le Hublot (Nice, France, 2012), La Chambre Blanche, (Quebec city, Canada, 2010), La Bande vidéo (Quebec city, Canada, 2009), Norapolis VI and VII (Metz, France, 2008-2009), the 8th Video, Art and New Media Biennial of Santiago (Santiago, Chile, 2007), Art Tech Media (Spain, 2006), the 25th Viper: International Film, Video & New Media Festival (Basel, Switzerland, 2006) and Symbiosis: Zones of Contact (Luarca, Spain, 2005)

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