Few of the animated artworks have anything to do with Iran, or even politics. Anthony Antonellis, Photoshop Skillz (2014). Courtesy the artist, via "GIFbites." The online portion of the exhibition ...

Massive social blogging site Tumblr is known to many as the birthplace of the modern GIF. Of course, I’m not talking about those annoying, flashy animations all over GeoCities, or even looping images ...

SAN FRANCISCO — I’ve often called internet ephemera, like visual memes and animated GIFs, the street art of the social web. But as with physical street art, the ability to make a masterpiece requires ...

An installation in the New York Museum of the Moving Image presents contemporary art GIFs in their original format, on the computers used to build them. Reading time 4 minutes There’s something about ...

More than LOLCat, more than Doge, the reaction GIF has become the lingua franca of the internet. It's a perfect, economical expression—and next month, it gets its own exhibit at the Museum of the ...