Baking Bread

Baking bread addresses the cultural issue of Iran and reflects early method of baking bread. Two rural women are baking bread in a traditional oven. The GIF created from   a painting of  Fakhraddin Mokhberi  and manipulate it with fire flame footage. The painting reminds me my grandmother who baked bread for us when I was a child. Hence, I decided to add fire flame to it and bring my memory near to the life.  The inspiration of the using painting comes from Scorpion Dagger works.  The gif is created by using mask tool, changing the opacity and changing the blending mode for the layers. 

Sorces :

Mokhberi, Fakhraddin. Life. 2009. Iran. Fakhraddin Mokhberi.Web. 29 Sep,2015.

"Fire 63 - 45s - 4k res - FREE STOCK FOOTAGE" Vimeo.Web.  29 Sep,2015.

Inside Ariana's Mind

Ariana is my three years old daughter who spends most of her time in imaginary play. My influence on this work is from the time when Ariana talks about her painting and storybooks. I realize that she considers the characters of her paintings and stories are real. The gif is a collage made with a photo and Photoshop painting. My work is also inspired by Milos Rajkovic, Sholim, and gifs. 

Searching Web

The gif is a kind of pun I create for searching web. The idea is from my experience of learning new language. The concept is a misunderstanding of the real meaning of the English phrases and words which I face with it almost every day. The gif is a collage made by photos from my eye and a geometric drawing, by Illustrator. It is a spider web and an eye that tries to search the web.  I inspired this type of collage from Greta Larkins’s gif.

Ideas

making salad:

Ariana's mind:

GIF 3:

Graphic animated gif 2:

Graphic animated gif:

Research for Animated GIF Project

Links:
https://www.yatzer.com/Animated-Narratives-RRRRRRRRoll
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/a-guide-to-enjoying-and-making-your-own-gif-art
http://www.gifart.org/archive
http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/trol/trolna.pdf
http://giphy.com/
http://www.lynda.com/





Favourit GIFs:

Exercise Week 1

Contemporary Artists:

·  James Kerr (Scorpion Dagger): There are several interesting points in artist's GIFs. His works are made by collage from Renaissance paintings. He creates new meaning of the old scenes by mixing it with new culture and contemporary style of life. He mainly focuses on culture, technology and progress. It is also interesting that the artist’s work put commentary on critiques of both modernity and religion in a comedic way.
http://scorpiondagger.tumblr.com

·  Greta Larkins: the artist uses two dimensional images of fashion and clothing and brings them to the comic life. As the fashion photos are unlimited and have wide range of styles, the artist innovation and creation is widespread.  Her work has subtle element of surrealism.
http://fashgif.tumblr.com

Comment on Tom Moody Animated GIF:

Tom Moody’s OptiDisc is created a hypotonic effect in its audience trough colors and movement, and the audiences are engaged with different motion when the loops of GIF are changed.  He also makes the audience to consider the impact of technology in art regard from the traditional mediums of creating art. The GIF is a tool to prompt the creating process for the artist’s expression on the screen. Moody’s looping animation has small frame and file size, hence it easily can be distributed socially. The GIF is easy to produce and does not require specific software to access to it.  However, such an easily animated image is controversial to consider as an art, it is an easy way to get out a message from its creator. The GIF is the artist response to poor photographed painting which is accessible via Internet.

Favorite GIF:

The GIF allows the spectator to become part of art work. The viewer can play with different colors. It is like splashing paint on canvas and creating your own piece.

       Manetas Miltonos. Super Art Modern Musee. Spamm.fr.Web. 16 September, 2015.
       http://spamm.fr/
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