GIF Bodies
GIF Bodies are a series of 4 multi gif animations made from ink on paper drawings which model or simulate the artist’s embodied experiences of neurological malfunction.
Pain Time is a series of drawings/diagrams of pain over time created by stacking the frames from animations created to simulate physical pain. Each piece was an attempt to map pain time and communicate the way pain smears and stacks standard time.
As both a transgender and Autistic person M Eifler frequently experiences being “clocked” in social situations. These drawing explore and represent that ongoing othering.
In Earth Works “screenshots of a standardized simulation of our world, Google Earth, are equipped with gif-footage of natural phenomenon, such as cloud movements, thunderstorms or hurricanes, sunsets, the starry sky, and in this case a whale splashing into the ocean. By adding digital images that imply an innocently romantic character, Eifler intervenes in the creation of a calculated paradise and returns content which had been rejected or not mapped at all by Google."
- EXAESSENTIALS 2017 Curator
Like Clockwork are a series of gifs modeling biological processes and embodied sensations made of a combination of ink on paper drawings, digital scans, and new and found photographs.
These ink on paper drawings with digital color are maps of the ways that pain effects attention both in the physical and digital worlds. Each drawing, made in bed, was an early experiment in combining digital and physical making.