by The AFC Staff on July 3, 2015
Our 2015 Fourth of July GIF Commission recipient, artist and designer Carrie Rennolds, hails from Baltimore. She’s making a red and blue state have some sort of sexual relations. This is a lesson for us all: No matter where you live, no matter if you swing left or right (or top or bottom), if you find a hot dude at a grill-out this weekend, don’t let his politics sway you into going home alone. Just do him.
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by Corinna Kirsch on December 10, 2014
For her “Further Abstract” series, Alma Alloro drafted a series of lines and shapes on grid paper, then turned those shapes into GIFs that spin, dart, and roll around. These GIFs move in ways the human hand can’t. And for Alloro, the works are about contradiction. In her own words:
This subject works meticulously for hours and hours on a seemingly pointless mission. This meticulous process is contradicted by the extremely short duration of the animation itself.
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