A grid of GIFs provides a perpetual-motion montage for today’s Art Basel Miami Beach exclusive, specially curated by NOWNESS from responses to an open call from virtual auction house Paddle8 and microblogging giant Tumblr. The images are among a selection that will be displayed at Moving the Still, an exhibition taking place this week in the Floridian paradise, devoted to fresh examples of the digital art form and the first effort of its kind. This follows Oxford Dictionaries USA’s recent decision to name “GIF” their Word of the Year, and for many observers 2012 has seen the quirky, now 25-year-old file type transform itself from the preserve of dancing baby animations into a nuanced, serious creative tool. “GIFs are now becoming huge because this is officially the Share Generation,” says Moving the Still’s Chief Council Member and The New York Times’ T Magazine columnist Johnny Misheff. The open call's 3,500 submissions were whittled down by luminary judges including Roselee Goldberg, Michael Stipe and Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Misheff predicts a healthy future for the cross-disciplinary GIF, chiming with our quest for ever-faster returns: “They have got to be amazing in the first 1.5 seconds, or people are going to keep moving on to the next thing.”