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

Your GIF on The Wall

As part of the exhibition: Born in 1987: The Animated GIF we are inviting the public to respond to their show by creating and submitting their own GIFs. 

We will be featuring the public submissions on this website, plus an edited selection will be shown on The Wall (a 2.7 x 3m screen) in the main foyer of The Photographers’ Gallery in the final weeks.

Because all GIFs featured on The Wall will be visible to both visitors to the building plus all passersby on Ramillies St through glass windows, your submissions will have to meet some editorial guidelines. For example, we won’t be able to exhibit GIFs on The Wall which are not suitable for a general audience, or GIFs which may have rapid flashing or changes in luminosity which may have a negative impact on members of the public with photosensitive epilepsy. As a guideline, no more than 3 rapid changes to the image per second should appear.

To submit your work, you will need to create a Tumblr Account, and upload your GIF. For us to discover it, you will need to TAG your gif with #bornin1987. Please note that Tumblr has a size restriction of 500px wide and under 1MB in size. We will start reblogging the public submissions and uploading them to The Wall from 18th June - 7th July. We will accept submissions until the 7th July.

Presently we are showing gifs from the following contributors:

jantka, jkscatena, v5mt, barrylewis, boombangbam, chrystal-lattice, da-guy, dowjonesbrotherhood, engramination, fichtrefichtre, fivis, gifriends, glitchee, haydiroket, jamopi, janicemclaren, letmedrive, lexplex, manuel-fernandez, martinboisvert, maxcapacity, msfranklin, nathanwhitham, neasaterry, petercmarquez, pizelnoizz, russellkenny, samantha harvey, sergeykolesov, slimeslut, smelliott, tatiweb, tracekaiser, tsnobiggie, vanja von sek, vvissionnairre, where-the-art-is, wilasj, willyumbeck, yanucatebajasporno.

Tags The Photographers' Gallery gif bornin1987

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.

Tags Marie Josiane Agossou bornin1987 gif The Photographers' Gallery

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.

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.

Tags Yoshi Sodeoka bornin1987 gif The Photographers' Gallery

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.

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.

Tags Nooshin Farhid bornin1987 gif The Photographers' Gallery

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)

Tags Nicholas Boillot bornin1987 gif The Photographers' Gallery