Pernah mendengar format GIF? Atau sering menyimpan gambar dalam format GIF? Yup, GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) menjadi salah satu format yang popular di internet untuk menyimpan atau memformat sebuah image. Sebenarnya banyak sekali format gambar yang tersedia untuk dibuka di komputer atau internet seperti JPG, JPEG, dan tentu saja GIF. Namun keunggulan format GIF ini biasanya dipakai untuk menyimpan animasi atau gambar bergerak bukan foto biasa. Nah, bagaimana sejarah awal GIF dan penggunaannya di bidang teknologi informasi dan komunikasi? Mari simak ulasan dari sumber-sumber internet terpercaya tentang GIF.
Animated GIF (Graphics Interchange Format ) are the emblem of a vintage aesthetic applied to the net. A retro and nostalgic aesthetic, built with natural forms, a poor palette, the pixel grid in view. One of the first format to allow the insertion of animated elements inside web pages, in use since the dawning of the Internet.
It has never truly disappeared, even if outclassed by more advanced format such as Flash, most of all talking about the banner. The GIF is now protagonist of a recovery and revaluation movement. Movement that includes a huge complex of forms and format considered obsolete, such as frames, three-dimensional fonts, midi files, buttons and the austere aspect of home pages 1994 style . That amateur vocabulary, far from the contemporary web design, that the Russian artist Olia Lialina has effectively defined “grubby ”.
Today an exhibition, simply intituled The Gif Show (from 3rd May to 3rd June at Rx Gallery of San Francisco) celebrate the return of animated GIF. They are proposed as creative platform, thanks to their lightness, their “open source” characteristic, both on the technical and conceptual side (there's no need of owner software, broad band, particular technical abilities). A page of Myspace , the popular US social networking service, presents the event, that impress for its hyper-kinetic aspect, introducing the spectator into the exhibition mood.
A group of 12 artists investigates on this graphic format through simple GIFs, but also videos, animations, prints and sculptures. It's lead by Marisa S. Olson , artist herself more than editor and editor of Rhizome.org. Interpreting with an ironic manner all the low-tech charm of the GIF graphic language, described by Tom Moody, one of the participant, that writes on his blog: “GIFs have a special charm, minimal as the garage rock”.
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