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See This Tonight: John Belknap’s Bathroom Interiors

by Michael Anthony Farley on April 27, 2017
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John Belknap: Bathroom Interiors
Special Special
44 East 1st Street
New York, NY
Opens Thursday, April 27th, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Event Page

We’re happy to announce that AFC’s awesome intern John Belknap has a month-long solo show that opens tonight at Special Special. Even if John weren’t part of the AFC fam, we’d recommend his work. Special Special is gallery/retail space inspired by museum stores that produces functional editions with artists. For this project, John is considering the most intimate of spaces: the bathroom.

Works include a self-portrait based on a childhood photo, printed on a shower curtain (what would our childhood selves think watching adult us shower?), limited edition postcards of bathroom interiors, and of course, GIFs. All of these components will be installed in dialogue with the architecture of the space, alongside collage and photographs.

Pics after the jump!

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To Do: Annotate The PBS Animated GIF Transcript

by Paddy Johnson on March 14, 2012
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“America’s largest classroom” needs to redo its GIF lesson plan. Produced by PBS, the short “Off Book: Animated GIFs” charts an error-ridden history of the animated GIF, and offers unquestioning belief in the mythology that new technology and new art necessarily represents progress. Two artist collaborative teams using the file format are invited to talk: Pamela Reed and Mathew Rader of Reed+Rader, and Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg. They present little more than cliches. Patrick Davison and TopherChris of Memefactory and Tumblr, respectively, also offer their perspective, though TopherChris is the only one who offers any insight at all.

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A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art | The Creators Project

by Paddy Johnson on May 3, 2011

A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art | The Creators Project – This post makes me wonder how important dating a GIF is since none of the GIFs have a creation date. In fact, the only date mentioned in the post is 2012, the year of a forthcoming GIF biennial. 

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The World’s Greatest GIF!

by Paddy Johnson on April 8, 2011
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May this GIF make your morning as happy as it made mine.  Via: The Tomorrow Museum.

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IMG MGMT: Psychotronic GIFs

by Tom Moody on August 5, 2008

Today’s invited artist Tom Moody shows at artMovingProjects in New York, maintains the blog tommoody.us, and recently exhibited videos in the Dallas Video Festival.

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