A couple of notes on this reading: I got hung up for a while looking at "Hummingbird" by Uri Dotan. The thought I ultimately came away with was, "I don't get it." Granted, I say that about a lot of art, because I'm coarse and uncultured, I guess, but at the same time I felt that if this were a "real" (3D) art installation, I could move around it and peruse it in different ways. As is, I was left thinking, "Huh?" What's the train doing there, for instance? It doesn't interact with any of the other parts. In that way, and in this case, I think the remediation of modernist European art lost something in the translation.
Regarding the chapter about film, that was a fun read. It set me to thinking, for some reason, about the music videos of Tom Petty -- "Runnin' Down a Dream" in particular, in which the video remediates a book, which turns into an animated fantasy with Petty as a starring character. The video, in all its strangeness, remediates other pop culture references, including classic cartoons, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and "Bedknobs & Broomsticks." I think animation represents the perfect merger of digital art and film, and it's fun to think of all the ways animation has changed since its early days -- a subject I had a chance to ponder while working on our "politics in cartoons" class project.
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