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

Marie-Josiane Agossou is a French-born digital media artist and educator based in London. Her work has mainly developed through sound, video and interactive practices with a particular interest in the relationship between the written word and its unconscious visual and sonic representations.  Her last collaborative piece with writer Esther Jones looked at themes of identity, time and memory trace.

Marie-Josiane Agossou is a French-born digital media artist and educator based in London. Her work has mainly developed through sound, video and interactive practices with a particular interest in the relationship between the written word and its unconscious visual and sonic representations.  Her last collaborative piece with writer Esther Jones looked at themes of identity, time and memory trace.

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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. Yoshi Sodeoka Yoshi Sodeoka is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Yokohama, Japan, who’s lived and worked in New York for more than two decades. Sodeoka’s projects have been shown all over the world, from London’s Tate Britain, New York City’s Deitch Projects, Whitney Museum of American Art Artport.

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Yoshi Sodeoka

Yoshi Sodeoka is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Yokohama, Japan, who’s lived and worked in New York for more than two decades. Sodeoka’s projects have been shown all over the world, from London’s Tate Britain, New York City’s Deitch Projects, Whitney Museum of American Art Artport.

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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. Nooshin Farhid Nooshin Farhid is a video artist and her work includes digital photography, animation and text work. Her video work employs the use of found and original time based imagery in the form of critically edited fragmented  narratives that explore contemporary political and social themes She was born in Tehran, Iran and now lives and works in London. She has shown widely both nationally and internationally.  Her recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition ‘Shallow Water, Deep Skin’, at The Agency Gallery, London, 2012 and ‘The Politic of Amnesia’, at the Cafe Gallery, London 2012. Her work ‘Borderline’, 2007 was shown at the Marrakesh Biennale 2012 and during 2011 she has participated in the ‘1st International Video Art Festival’ at Katara Art Center, Doha, Qatar, ‘Rencontres Internationales’, Paris/Berlin/Madrid, video library, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris.  A  solo exhibition of ‘Conic Trilogy’ ( 2010)  was presented at the art and media gallery, Beaconsfield London as well her contributions to ‘Gaming in Waziristan’, at the same venue. Exhibitions also include ‘The Pavement and the Beach’, Paradise Row Gallery, London, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam and Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran.

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Nooshin Farhid

Nooshin Farhid is a video artist and her work includes digital photography, animation and text work. Her video work employs the use of found and original time based imagery in the form of critically edited fragmented  narratives that explore contemporary political and social themes

She was born in Tehran, Iran and now lives and works in London. She has shown widely both nationally and internationally.  Her recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition ‘Shallow Water, Deep Skin’, at The Agency Gallery, London, 2012 and ‘The Politic of Amnesia’, at the Cafe Gallery, London 2012. Her work ‘Borderline’, 2007 was shown at the Marrakesh Biennale 2012 and during 2011 she has participated in the ‘1st International Video Art Festival’ at Katara Art Center, Doha, Qatar, ‘Rencontres Internationales’, Paris/Berlin/Madrid, video library, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris.  A  solo exhibition of ‘Conic Trilogy’ ( 2010)  was presented at the art and media gallery, Beaconsfield London as well her contributions to ‘Gaming in Waziristan’, at the same venue. Exhibitions also include ‘The Pavement and the Beach’, Paradise Row Gallery, London, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam and Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran.

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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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Kennard Phillipps kennardphillipps is the collaboration between artists Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps established in 2002 in opposition to the ensuing invasion and occupation of Iraq. Intended both as objects of dissent and as tools for political change kennardphillipps’ work spans multiple practices made for various art audiences, public and commercial galleries and museums, street protests, newspapers and magazines and the internet’s blogosphere.  http://www.kennardphillipps.com 

Kennard Phillipps

kennardphillipps is the collaboration between artists Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps established in 2002 in opposition to the ensuing invasion and occupation of Iraq. Intended both as objects of dissent and as tools for political change kennardphillipps’ work spans multiple practices made for various art audiences, public and commercial galleries and museums, street protests, newspapers and magazines and the internet’s blogosphere. 

http://www.kennardphillipps.com 

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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. JocJonJosch is the Anglo-Swiss-Slovakian collective of Joc Marchington, Jonathan Brantschen and Joschi Herczeg.Through their work JocJonJosch attempt to heighten their understanding of human identity and existence. By addressing the dynamic of their own collective, previous work looked at the motivations and symptoms for collaboration and considered the state of the individual within a group existence.Recent projects have extended their interest to the unknown and intangible fears that exist outside of our protective structures. Querying the purpose of containment, they question what this is and what might happen when such anxieties are released.Using their collaboration as a testing ground these ideas are often expressed through performance-type work resulting in a photograph, video or performance. Their recent Existere performance in Testbed 1, Battersea confronted this habit / process of production as well as traditional views of documentation, asking when and how to best represent temporal work.Current projects confront this habit and process of production as well as traditional views of documentation, encouraging a responsibility in the artist to consider how work should be suitably documented and represented.

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JocJonJosch is the Anglo-Swiss-Slovakian collective of Joc Marchington, Jonathan Brantschen and Joschi Herczeg.

Through their work JocJonJosch attempt to heighten their understanding of human identity and existence. By addressing the dynamic of their own collective, previous work looked at the motivations and symptoms for collaboration and considered the state of the individual within a group existence.

Recent projects have extended their interest to the unknown and intangible fears that exist outside of our protective structures. Querying the purpose of containment, they question what this is and what might happen when such anxieties are released.

Using their collaboration as a testing ground these ideas are often expressed through performance-type work resulting in a photograph, video or performance. Their recent Existere performance in Testbed 1, Battersea confronted this habit / process of production as well as traditional views of documentation, asking when and how to best represent temporal work.

Current projects confront this habit and process of production as well as traditional views of documentation, encouraging a responsibility in the artist to consider how work should be suitably documented and represented.

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