The Finnish Museum will display GIF files with a record length of 1,000 years

The 1,000-year GIF artwork by Finnish artist Juha van Ingen will be on display at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art.

Art always contains interesting and new things. Today, in the technological age, artists always want to integrate modern technologies into their work.

Recently, Finland has found an impressive way to put GIF files into art. Last month, the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Finland began displaying a 1,000-year- old GIF image by Finnish artist Juha van Ingen.

Juha van Ingen's As Long As Possible.

Van Ingen's work is called As Long As Possible (ASLAP) and is on display to celebrate 100 years of Finnish independence and 30 years of GIF birth.

This GIF image has 48,140,288 frames with white digits on a black background. ASLAP will count from one and display each frame for about ten minutes until it ends in 3017. This is an extremely thrilling and exotic art piece.

Van Ingen is really optimistic about his work, he hopes that the work will be exhibited within 1,000 years and preserved by future generations.

Video interviews with artist Juha van Ingen.

The Kiasma Museum has a specific plan to do so by acquiring Van Ingen's work and pledging its work. After the exhibition is over, it will be stored in the archive for as long as possible. However, Van Ingen did not want to put all the eggs in one basket.

ASLAP files will be synchronized and run simultaneously in different locations. In addition, if a display is destroyed in a major disaster such as war or natural disaster, a new display will be built and synchronized with other places. In the case of all exhibits being destroyed, there is a backup copy containing the original ASLAP GIF file in formats, and even encrypted copies to create a new GIF. Therefore, this work may actually work until 3017.