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# 9 Squares captures the wonderful dialogue of gif culture
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/9-squares/
- Published: 2015-04-21T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T17:21:57.000Z
- Description: Remember Hollywood Squares, the 1990s American quiz show in which panelists—including a definitely-not-high Whoopi Goldberg—were seated in three stacked tiers, each of which contained 3 boxes? There were audience participants, sure, but Hollywood Squares was really about the interaction between the
- Author: David Rudin
- Tags: News, Art, collaboration, digital art, gif, tumblr, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Remember *Hollywood Squares*, the 1990s American quiz show in which panelists—including a definitely-not-high Whoopi Goldberg—were seated in three stacked tiers, each of which contained 3 boxes? There were audience participants, sure, but *Hollywood Squares* was really about the interaction between the boxes in its 3×3 grid.

an ongoing dialogue about creativity

If Whoopi and her eight aged colleagues had been replaced with animated gifs, it would have looked something like *[9 Squares](http://9-squares.tumblr.com/?ref=killscreen.com)*, a bimonthly digital art project currently being hosted on Tumblr. Every two weeks, nine designers / animators are given a four-color palette and asked to create a three-second-long animated square gif. The end results are then arranged in a 3×3 grid on *9 Squares*’ Tumblr.

Like *Hollywood Squares*, *9 Squares’* discussion is as much between the boxes in the grid as it is with the viewer. Each grid offers a reminder of how artists can reach dramatically different results when starting from the same raw materials. Despite these differences, patterns can be spotted in each grid: one week it may be a circular shape, another it may be an opening-and-closing motion that resembles an abstracted clamshell.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/tumblr_nmnf2ezghs1uojhbvo1_1280.gif "9 Squares")

*9 Squares* is an ongoing dialogue about creativity that, even in the absence of a television show’s carefully produced structure, produces stunningly revelatory moments.

*[Check out 9 Squares to see more of their work](http://9-squares.tumblr.com/?ref=killscreen.com).*