The 1,000-Year GIF
Found on Hyperallergic on Saturday, 03 October 2015
Artists in Helsinki will hit play on a 1000-year-long animated GIF loop in an homage to Cage’s piece. Titled “AS Long As Possible,” the work features 48,140,288 frames, and unlike Cage’s it has a designated speed and no end: each frame will last for about 10 minutes, so the file will reach its end only in the year 3017 — until it loops back to frame number one.
No matter its display method, however, the artists will 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.
On some days, you read the news, frown, read it again and ask yourself when "art" went the wrong way. Most of what today's hipsters consider to be "art" or "artistic installations" are nothing but a waste of space. The only positive thing about it is that you can sell a bunch of junk to someone with too much money.