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As contemporary updates to early Northern Renaissance paintings and ukiyo-e woodblock prints have shown, GIFs have become a popular way for artists to revisit and reinterpret art history. The latest works to join this burgeoning genre of remixed animations, created by the German-based illustrator Raphaëlle Martin, were inspired by René Magritte, himself a master of altering the familiar. Martin released her first collection of Magritte-inspired animations last year, but she has just published a new set that demonstrates how much more bizarre the Surrealist’s paintings can be when brought to life and played on a loop.

Ceci N’Est Pas un Gif: Animating Magritte

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Right now, a single church organ in Halberstadt, Germany, is playing a rendition of John Cage’s “As Slow as Possible,” a score with no specific length as its composer chose to exclude a designated tempo. Notes fill the instrument’s home in the old St. Burchardi church, sounding from the same keys that have been held since October 2013 and will continue to be through September 2020. The notes of Cage’s composition will keep on flowing, slowly, for the next 625 years.

The 1,000-Year GIF

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For motion designers with clients demanding flashy movement that is in fact total nonsense, Vancouver-based art director and motion designer Peter Quinn created a handy set of 100 pre-made fake user interface (UI) animations.

Flickery Nonsense for the Overworked Motion Designer

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GIFs That Bring Street Art to Life

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Liberia occupies a gloomy place in the Western imagination. Ask the average American what they picture when they think of the country, and they might say child soldiers, the murderous dictator Charles Taylor, or Ebola.

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Yuanyuan Yang, “New opening” [nd]

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Vedran Mišić, “emoji mandala no.2” (2014) animated gif 
featured on tumblr radar (8/17) generating over 3K reblogs.

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(via Remixing the Renaissance as GIFs)

By now it’s become a familiar trope: Photoshop or GIF something historical, say, Old Masters or old photographs. But just because it’s been done doesn’t mean it’s finished. And the elaborate GIFs that James Kerr makes from early Northern Renaissance paintings are a hilariously new take on the idea of remixing antique art.

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HILAIRIOUS! (via Remixing the Renaissance into GIFs)

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(via Glitch Expectations: A Conversation with Jon Cates)

Describing the world of new media/glitch artist Jon Cates is a labyrinthine task. You might begin with his spontaneous and inventive word-language actions reminiscent of William Burroughs cut-ups; or the hypnotic .gif animations made from seemingly incongruous, discarded fragments of media; or perhaps his “dirty new media” aesthetic that brings to the surface the aberrations and raw imperfections that are typically verboten in “high-end” digital circles.

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