The Tate’s 1840’s GIF Party

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“The 1840s GIFParty invites you to transform artworks from the 1840s room at Tate Britain into animated GIFs.” That’s tight, you have right to take a piece of museum art work, animate it as a GIF, and submit it back to the Tate. Tag your work for ds106 and share it with the museum.

“Submit your  GIF to us via the  Tate Collectives Tumblr or by emailing: [email protected]” — doing so before February 2, 2014 enters your GIF for potential museum exhibition, learn more…

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If you complete this assignment, share it! If you are signed up with a blog that feeds the main DS106 site, to have your example added below just add the following tags (or labels if you use Blogger) when writing the post on your own blog (You must use BOTH!):

If your blog is not connected to ds106, you can add your example directly.

Submissions So Far

“Oh Sheep! This is gonna look bad.” – The directors cut.   (Created by Rochelle Lockridge  for the JCVD #GIFFight)

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A few gifs

1870 Rehearsing the Service: Picard Variation” animated GIF by aforgrave

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“1870 Rehearsing the Service: No dona eis Requiem” animated GIF by aforgrave

The original image is <a title='"1870 Rehearsing the Service" by Alphonse Legros on

Everyone loves a good 1840s GIF party.

There’s an amazing collection of them growing as part of this DS106 assignment, at the GIFfight

Portrait of Sidney Wells and Older Sister Silent Tatiana Wells” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina

Well, you know that I am not one to talky about

I’ve come across a couple of interesting projects this week involving animated gifs.
1840s GIF party: call for submissions | Tate and
The GIF

Click the little kicker to see her kick bigger

Don't Rage around Miss Cicely Alexander! This is a response to the Tate’s call for