Defining Terms/Introduction to GIFs

Permeable Categories: Digital Art, Computational Art, New Media Art:

What do each of these terms mean? Which category do the following artworks belong to:

• Robert Lazzarini - payphone (2002) http://www.robertlazzarini.com/ 
• Ben Rubin in collaboration with Mark Hansen and Jer Thorp - And Thats the Way It Is (2012)
• Jesse McLean - Climbing (2009)
• Ben Benjamin - www.superbad.com (1997)
• Feng Mengbo - Long March Restart (2008)

Toward the Advanced Study of Graphics Interchange Format:

• Benj Edwards - [Retro GIF of the Week] from Vintage Computing and Gaming
• Eric Fleischauer and Jason Lazarus - twohundredfiftysixcolors
• Jon Cates - Institvte for the Animated GIF