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Gif-making: an exercise in digital media archeology

The gif is ubiquitous. And it’s a mess. A relic from the dial-up web, it was one of the first image formats on the web. It’s become an essential part of the language of online communication, and  it’s become a form of art it own right, it’s even bleeding into other forms of media (see PBS Idea’s Read More