ShanghArt

Great Internet Format — reality mix No.2

18 - 25 Dec 2011

GREAT INTERNET FORMAT — REALITY MIX NO.2
18 - 25 December, 2011

Dec. 18 17:30 performace: Xu Cheng and Hong Qiyue, Shen Ligong, Wang Changchun, Ji Mu and Shi Chuan
Dec. 19-25th presented artist: Guo Xi, Wang Changchun, Hua Zi, Hu Jia, Shen Ligong, Shi Chuan

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a bitmap image format which supports up to 8 bits per pixel(256 distinct colors) to refer to true color image.

Great Internet Format (GIF) was first launched by imagokinetics lab with a series of art activities that based on GIF(Graphics Interchange Format) , in which the part[reality mix] is to exist as an useable art work in reality instead of living in the internet circumstance .

[reality mix No.2] is carried out to realize the concept that GIF animation evenly divides time in another medium, including an update of [reality mix No.1] which considers GIF as the material of impulse video, and to create sound&video with these material by a software run by HTML/Javascript (at the openning only). The DVD set of selected GIF works are also available for purchase during the exhibition.