‘looking backward // moving forward’ by hara katsiki, 2011 all images courtesy iheartberlin
iheartberlin and media partner smart urban stage have created ‘GIF. me. berlin’, a photographic exhibition of animated GIFs on exhibition for one day at HBC kino and now displayed online in the iheartberlin virtual gallery. the GIF, developed in 1987 as the first digital file format for saving color images, was made popular as an artistic medium on the internet in the past year. the show features the collective animated works of eleven berlin-based artists including raphaela anouk, crystal mafia, arne grugel, katja hentschel, hara katsiki, floran kolmer, clemens poloczek, oliver rath, voin de voin, carolin weinkopf, iheartberlin and malte jäger.
“die zukunft ist ein heller raum ohne wände” by raphaela anouk, 2011
‘zeitreise’ by oliver rath, 2001
‘future body’ by arne grugel, 2011
‘the future is glamorous’ by katja hentschel, 2011
‘smoking won’t be banned’ by florian kolmer, 2011
‘back to the future’ by malte jäger, 2011
‘self portrait’ by crystal mafia, 2011
‘it’s alive’ by iheartberlin, 2011
‘dead hipster’ by clemens poloczek, 2011
via iGNANT
