“Make Pictures” Exhibition

Bitforms Gallery

poster for “Make Pictures” Exhibition
[Image: GIF created using Sketch Machine by Casey Reas]

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bitforms gallery presents Make Pictures, featuring four web-based drawing and animation tools commissioned by GIPHY Arts and curated by artist Jeffrey Alan Scudder. Works on view and available to use include Boopy by Andrew Benson, Sketch Machine by Casey Reas, Extinctr by Harm van den Dorpel, and Eyemall by Withering Systems. Pictures created by gallery visitors using the tools will be displayed in the gallery for the duration of the show.

Boopy is a drawing tool by Andrew Benson developed in response to the question “What would it be like if, as you are drawing, the canvas was looping?” Boopy allows the user to build complex, layered, repeating patterns from different textured brushes. It also includes a webcam feature that allows a user to reveal their image by erasing a layer with animated strokes.

Sketch Machine by Casey Reas is an open source software for creating freehand animations in real time or frame by frame. The user can draw with different colored points, lines, and planes and modify qualities of the animation such as jitter, speed, and playback. Animations can be exported as GIFs and circulated online. Sketch Machine is created within the tradition of direct animation works by Len Lye and Stan Brakhage and exploratory drawing software like Kid Pix and TURUX.

Extinctr is a pixel sorting algorithm and web tool by Harm van den Dorpel that accepts any image as input, and outputs an animated vertical decomposition of that image into a pixelated mound. The user can control the speed of the dismantling procedure (scatter) and record any duration of the process to export as a GIF.

The Eyemall is a toy by Withering Systems for creating an exquisite corpse from a curated, tagged selection of human body-part GIFs in GIPHY’s database. Hands, eyes, noses, sweaters, shorts, knees, lips, and other body parts come together to form an interactive marionette-like figure; a single body made from disparate GIF parts.

GIPHY Arts is a subsidiary of GIPHY, the GIF search engine. GIPHY Arts expands the prominence of the GIF as an artistic medium and format by directly engaging and commissioning artists, creating new distribution possibilities, and pioneering new technology. You can learn more by following @giphyarts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Schedule

from March 21, 2018 to March 25, 2018
Casey Reas & Jeffrey Alan Scudder in Conversation: Saturday March 24, 2:30 pm. Requires RSVP

Opening Reception on 2018-03-21 from 18:00 to 20:00

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