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

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.

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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