This Make is opportunity to learn how to make an animated GIF from one of the Screening Surveillance short films using the Giphy Gifmaker. The process of choosing a segment of less than 10 seconds makes you focus on a key scene. The captions you add can add commentary or suggest an alternative narrative. In more… »
Digital Art Makes
Makes that use digital tools, media to generate new forms of familiar kinds of art and also ones only possible in the digital space.
GIF A Scene in the Digital Alchemists Coffee Shop






Created by Rebeg Maestro (@rebegmaestro) • 435 views • 4 responses
This Make is opportunity to learn how to make an animated GIF from any YouTube video using the Giphy Gifmaker. As an experiment it’s interesting to see what portion of the same clips people will isolate from the source video to create a message in a GIF. In #NetNarr we seek out wisdom from the best more… »
A Meme To Counter the Internet Darkness






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 365 views
This mission is part of the activity for a 2019 NetNarr class where we will be looking at meme images to maybe be more than just for laughs, that we might be able to craft a message to counter some of the internet darkness. Start at the imgflip Meme Generator. This site provides along the more… »
GIF It All Together: Digital Art / Digital Life






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 260 views • 6 responses
As one more twist on making animated GIFs from photos, the same Gifmaker tool can let you mix together animated GIFs and photos into a single final GIF. As a mini capstone to our #NetNarr segment on Digital Art, first assemble together a collection of images on your computer (perhaps photos you took or used more… »
GIF a Process






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 278 views • 5 responses
This Make builds on a previous Photograph a Process Make which asked you to collect a series of images showing something you do/create by hand (e.g. cooking, making analog art, demonstrating a skill). Now you can bring it to life as an animated GIF. We again use the Giphy Gifmaker tool, but this time we more… »
Photograph a Process






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 197 views • 4 responses
In a series of photographs show the steps in making or creating something you are good at doing. Think of it as a way to demonstrate it to an unknown audience, show all the steps in photos, and do not rely on captions. Post the photos any place (your blog, a photo collection, tagged in more… »
This GIFfed Digital Life






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 280 views • 7 responses
After you have practiced the GIF making process on a clip of a western movie you like do not care about, now you get to make a similar set using a YouTube clip you select. But the topic for this one has to make a statement or represent metaphorically the NetNarr course theme of This more… »
Many GIFs From One [Western] Video






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 357 views • 10 responses
This Make is opportunity to learn how to make an animated GIF from any YouTube video using the Giphy Gifmaker. As an experiment it’s interesting to see what portion of the same clip people will isolate from the source video. To practice making GIFs, all responses will use this same clip of Blanco Canyon Sequence more… »
Where is the New Media Art Now?






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 196 views
This Make is a research exercise into early examples of web-based or Net Art that was part of a class activity for Week 4 of the 2018 version of Networked Narratives. Published in 2006 New Media Art by Mark Tribe and Renna Jana profiled a collection of the forms of digital art that took advantage more… »
#SelfieUnselfie






Created by Mia Zamora (@miazamoraphd) • 923 views • 11 responses
The act of identity construction performed online is at once a private and individual performance… but it is also a communal and public activity. A major question comes out of this: What layers of our true selves can be shared in a selfie? What are ways to share an authentic version of the self online? more… »