#johnkarborn

#JohnKarborn

As it stands today, Karborn feels the graffiti scene is "boring, dead, sold out, gone." According to the artist, GIFs and self-made digital creations have taken the place of street art. "GIFs are more real, more honest, homemade," Karborn says. "They are a new kind of VHS tape [...] even though the format is 30 years old now. And of course, they are used to rip parts of films, overlaid with subversive new typography or edits to shift meaning. They capture all the imagination of the bootlegger and artist simultaneously. The GIF might be the most prolific and significant single digital format of social and artistic expression."