We’re excited to introduce you to WNW Member Atlas Acopian, who did us proud and won the Grand Prize at the GIPHY Film Fest for his microfilm “Washed Up.”
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Do you want $10k? Our friends at Dark Igloo are helping GIPHY produce its first ever micro-film festival. Film submissions must be 18 seconds or less, and Dark Igloo thinks many of their fellow WNW Members, from advertisers to animators to filmmakers, could create something enduring in that loopable timeframe. We happen to agree.
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Read MoreGIPHY Presents "Loop Dreams" - An Exhibition of GIF Art IRL
GIPHY PRESENTS "LOOP DREAMS" - AN EXHIBITION OF GIF ART IRL
Join GIPHY in New York City this Sunday for LOOP DREAMS: An IRL exhibition of GIF Art. You can experience the work of 25 GIF artists through holographic posters, projections, VR, and interactive installations, with additional curation by Rhizome. Branding by WNW Members Mark Richard Miller & Dave Franzese of Dark Igloo.
12-3PM: Come explore inside the first ever Virtual Reality GIF Museum! The team behind the Mona VR headset will be giving demos of the soon-to-be-released MoGA and will be available to answer all your VR questions.
4-5PM: Join us for a panel discussion on the GIF led by RHIZOME. This panel discussion—featuring artist Laura Brothers, curator Jason Eppink, and GIPHY founder Alex Chung—will explore the GIF's usage as vernacular communication and artistic medium as parallel trajectories in the history of the file format.
October 2nd, 2016 / 10am-6pm / 201 Mulberry Street / New York, NY 10002
Hope to see you there! Scroll for the full list of featured artists.
Featuring art from:
Jacob Ciocci
Yung Jake
Nicolas Sassoon
Ann Hirsch
Laura Brothers
WNW Member Mattis Dovier
Stuart Wade
Eno Swinnen
Phyllis Ma
Scorpion Dagger
Zach Scott
WNW Member Julian Glander
Sam Rolfes
Winston Duke
WNW Member Karan Singh
Katri Tikkanen
LaTurbo Avedon
Dina Kelberman
David Berrebi
John Fogarty
Lauren Pelc McArthur
Jess Mac
Daniel Berman
Leon Denise
Nicole Ginelli
Martin Onassis