Workshop conceived by EXA within the show Curto Circuito Festival – SESC Palladium.
The autonomous playback power generated by Gifs on various websites reinforces the memetic conception for this mode of expression in animation cycles. We can draw similarities to the same processes that exist in the animation cycles created by the Thaumatropium, Phenakistoscope, Zootropium, Praxinoscope, Optical Theater, and Thomas Edison’s Nickelodeons. The GIF, therefore, is a nano-narrative, it is silent miniature cinema!
The course aims to explore the language of GIF as art by teaching the basic steps of how to create and publish a GIF, as well as extrapolate the mechanical exercise by bringing provocations like Glitch to compose the image!