Francoise Gamma

Francoise Gamma is a Barcelona-based digital artist known for creating animated GIFs built from single-pixel lines, contorted bodies, and glitch aesthetics. A member of the influential online collective Computers Club, Gamma has been a prominent figure in internet art since the early 2000s, working professionally on the web since 1995 and creating some of the earliest GIF artworks on Hell.com, a private and elusive platform for net art experimentation.

With formal training in fine arts starting in 2003, Gamma studied anatomy and technical drawing, skills that continue to inform his pixel-level precision and fascination with the human form. His work navigates tensions between flat and three-dimensional space, smoothness and disruption, using obsolete software and formats not out of nostalgia, but to reawaken a lost digital language.

Gamma’s GIFs pulse, twitch, and unravel. Built from single-pixel lines, his animated figures feel more like living code than drawn bodies. They glitch and bend, hover between form and collapse, holding tension between the digital and the human. There’s no interest in polish or perfection here, Gamma works with the limits of old tools and short loops, not in spite of their constraints but because of them. Every flicker, every frame, is intentional. His practice pulls from deep corners of the internet, abandonware, experimental cinema, art history, and visual debris scattered across time. It’s less about nostalgia and more about reactivating a digital language that’s still evolving. 

His work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, BOZAR in Belgium, and Museo Soumaya in Mexico City, among others. He also had a solo show at American Fantasy Classics and was once featured on Kanye West’s blog. Whether on a gallery wall or embedded in a browser window, his work continues to shift the boundaries of where digital art can live.