Artists Create a 1000-Year GIF Loop

jovius writes: Finnish artists Juha van Ingen and Janne Särkelä have developed a monumental GIF called AS Long As Possible, which loops once per 1000 years. The 12 gigabyte GIF is made of 48,140,288 numbered frames, that change about every 10 minutes. They plan to start the loop in 2017, when GIF turns 30 years old. "If nurturing a GIF loop even for 100 — let alone 3,000 years — seems an unbelievable task, how much remains of our present digital culture after that time?", van Ingen said. The artists plan to store a mother file somewhere and create many iterations of the loop in various locations — and if one fails, it may be easily synchronized with, and replaced by, another. Maybe they should use FLIF instead.

Comments

Let me be the first to point out

[Anonymous Coward]

BFD. Displays of sequential numbers, or randomly generated pixels that have no interest except to "contemporary ahhtists".

Re:Let me be the first to point out

[Joce640k]

...and once every ten minutes? Jeez.

I've got some funny cat GIFs that would play for a million years if I only change the image once per millennium. Can I have my prize for being clever?

So...

[minkowski76]

Was there a contest somewhere for 'Wasting Your Time In the Least Meaningful Way'? If so, these people win first place.