gif – Aisha Beya

Gifs with an agenda

This is a continuation of the type of format I wished to use but instead of it being random images without meaning. This time I’m going to find a way to comment about topics that find interest in. The goal here is to incorporate text and imagery.

For my first gif, I had the instant idea to go back and look at previous idea for survival. My initial ideas for “Survival” were to look at female rage. I decided to revisit this topic with images from Halsey’s Nightmare music video. Which literally a massive ‘Fuck You’ to the patriarchy.

The initial idea for this one was to look at objectifying the female body but not like in a disgusting way. But I don’t think that executed right and I tried to add text but its look more as an after thought than something that was supposed to be there.

Still had the idea of looking at the figure, instead of using tv screens for the background. I used polaroids instead because I came across this photoshoot for Calvin Klein. The colour palette for this shot its a lot warmer than the previous. Went onto decided that the images on the polaroids were not going to be moving this time only the text.

This one has a clear message behind. Women’s rights: through history. Wanted to continue on using different backgrounds, resulting in a film. Went for text that was kind of obvious to the image just to ‘hit the nail on the head’ even more.

This gif is like a variation on the second gif. I definitely had more of an idea of what imagery I wanted to have and the text that would be alongside it. Like the women’s right gif I wanted to be ‘now vs then’ type of look to it. So I chose greek statues of women and women of now. Using text from ‘Sex Pistols’ to plaster over these women’s bodies.

Hypno pixilation

The idea behind these photomontages is that I took Douglas Couplands love for pixels and combined them with the idea that the internet is feeding into reality.

This is quite a literally. What I was trying to say with this photomontage, tv brainwashing the youth. But doesn’t effect the adults. Went for more iconic tv screens on the kids cause you get a clear understanding of whats its about with the black and white spiral background. Its makes it obvious thats its about hypnotising the young.

The concept is the same, still touches on the hypnotic side of the internet but I wanted to showcase like the internet glitching into our world. If that make sense. Thats why there different colour blocks but there all pixelated. The

With this on I wanted to be more literally with my message. But this time, i wanted to use iconic game characters but in the context of my concept. Throughout the photomontages I use vintage images cause there such a contrast between the Black & White images to the solid colour blocks throughout the piece.

For the last three images are standstill and I remember talking to Jason & Becky about how I was going to make my work. Jason said something about how my previous photomontages were static and whether I would want to work on movement.

So just to experiment, I used an image of Bella Hadid and put the same elements as the last images but with a Kirby sticker. Added that cause it reminded me of those “sticker drugs” with different characters.

Similar to the last one, I just wanted to explore more on making GIF’s. This piece I would stay is recreation of some kind. To the work of Nam June Paik especially his “TV Garden” which was featured in the Tate Modern.

What I took inspiration from is that throughout the “garden” the tv’s were just playing multiple of images/ videos some where just the news whilst others were provocative. I lean more towards using “more out” imagery but layered on top of it is the Pacman starting screen.