GIFBOX.TV, through a curated collection of the finest GIFS in the world, re-contextualises the medium (GIFS) in order to provide a living breathing commentary on mass culture and the art it engenders. GIFBOX.TV - SAMPLING THE INTERNET
A curated collection of gifs
Created by DAFFY LONDON
Developed by RANGI ROBINSON
Modern cultural consciousness demands a new visual identity. As well an au
tomated stream playing from www.gifbox.tv, bespoke tools to control the work allow creator DAFFY LONDON to form a total artistic experience for nightclubs, festivals, gaming events and large event spaces. GIFBOX.TV constantly shifts and mutates depending on the real life and real-time contributions of artists around the globe in combination with a seamless interactivity that democratises global watching. As well as the thousands of curated GIFs borrowed from the web, GIFBOX.TV also collaborates with major visual artists, illustrators, animators and photographers whose contribution over time lifts the bar in terms of accessible art - bringing the single channel to millions of communal screens worldwide. As an artpiece presented by Freefolk, GIFBOX.TV plays nightly on a large prominent screen on Wardour Street, Soho. It has been seen at the Newness Premiere at Sundance, the Tom of Finland Art Fair in Los Angeles, Electrogasm at East Bloc, London, the Ritual of Cholafication at Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco and Stephanie Sian Smiths’ PussZine at Exposure, London. Institutions such as the Royal College of Art also participate; where fashion designers contribute weekly and present their work on this new platform for global art. Additionally, GIFBOX.TV invites musical artists to share track rejects destined to remain on the “cutting room floor” to accompany the visual spectrum. Simply put, GIFBOX.TV is a live stream that can be brought to any event space that is a unique collection of thousands of gifs engineered in a player that creates an inter-connected commentary between the GIFS and allows total control from the viewers watching without any app to download. This reinvents event spaces and injects them with a totally live, totally controllable collection of art that ranges from the sublime to the saccharine, from the silly to the seductive. GIFBOX.TV takes the viewer on a journey across the visual landscape of modern society. GIFBOX.TV is the closest thing we have to an representation of the visual identity of the internet: wild in its variety and fast, slick and global in its reach.
[Words by CONNOR DOYLE]
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GIFBOX.TV CREDIT LIST
CREATOR
DAFFY LONDON
DEVELOPER
RANGI ROBINSON
CREATIVE CONSULTANTS
NEHA AMIN
EMZ ESPECIAL
WRITER / WEB DEVELOPER
CONNOR DOYLE
WEBAPP BY 90up
PRODUCER
JOSHUA FELDBERG
DEVELOPER
FACUNDA ARIAS
STREAMING HOSTS
SOON_
SHOWS
, WARDOUR STREET
FREEFOLK,
LONDON, 2015 -
THE RITUAL OF CHOLAFICATION
ARTISTS’ TELEVISION ACCESS,
SAN FRANCISCO 2016
STEPHANIE SIAN SMITHS’ PUSSZINE
EXPOSURE,
LONDON 2016
TOM OF FINLAND ART FAIR
TOM HOUSE,
LOS ANGELES 2016
ELECTROGASM
EAST BLOC
LONDON 2017
GIF CONTRIBUTORS
RCA - FASHION
STEPHANIE SIAN SMITH
NATALIE STUYK
SIMON BRONSON
MANNY MUCH MORE
ACULT LONDON
MAINFRAME
REMCO
AUDIO CONTIBUTORS
VAPOREON
AD
