Jessie Wender takes a look at “Moving the Still: A Festival of GIFs,” which opens tomorrow at Art Basel Miami Beach.

The exhibition coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Graphics Interchange Format, a compressed-image technique that has proven diabolically useful for the online presentation of quick-and-dirty animated loops.

To assemble their GIFs, the show’s selection committee—headed by Johnny Misheff, along with Nicola Formichetti, James Frey, RoseLee Goldberg, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Richard Phillips, the Rodarte sisters, Michael Stipe, and Ryan Trecartin—both commissioned new GIFs from established artists and chose from GIFs that had been submitted in response to an open call from Paddle8 and Tumblr. “GIFs can be funny, sad, profound, psychedelic, whimsical, mind-blowing, mind-numbing, narrative, and completely bonkers,” Misheff told me. “My favorite GIFs tell a story or make me LOL. It’s a truly democratic medium.”

Here’s a selection of the curators’ favorite GIFs from the open call: http://nyr.kr/11OizqO

A look at the British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge’s recent images.

Aldridge’s subjects for The New Yorker include Louboutin shoes, Zaha Hadid, and 3-D movies—and, this week, Jean Paul Gaultier, for Susan Orlean’s profile. A selection of Aldridge’s work for Vogue Italia will be on view at Casa Tua during Art Basel Miami Beach in early December.