Gif-animation in the Context of Problems of Contemporary Visual Arts
The article is devoted gif-animation, one of the types of contemporary digitalart. The problemof the bases of art criticismof gif-animation is investigated. These bases are defined according to the mathematically-programnature of digitalart also are considered in the tideway of the modern theories of screen art which are based on a recognition of discrete (quantum) nature of a screen image and on a related conception of metadiscourse. In this paper descript pixeland photographic gif-animation as two variants of appearance of the basic properties of digitalimages.