Intertextuality

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The way ideas or meanings can be planted in the mind of the viewer by inspiring a particular memory or state of mind either intentionally or unintentionally by means of an implied reference or allusion. The context in which an idea or meaning is intertextualized is important to its meaning, as It can be a look at the way a work is interpreted by different groups of people with different expectation prior experiences or understandings or it can be the way in which the artists experiences and enviroments influence their own work.

The first reference I think of actually are the cyborgs in Ghost in the Shell, I always had this weird perception of the synthetic bodies known in the fiction as 'prosthetics' they always seemed uncannily real but at the same time clearly an imitation of reality,

I think its the way they are drawn to look like prosthetics we see in the real world as so inspire our own memories and experiences relating to prosthetics in their real-life application.

Ghost in the Shell would have actually made a pretty good reference for the discussion of realism and its effects on people, and its relation to the visual arts.

Pixar are always referencing their own franchises ('Toy Story' dolls in 'Monsters Inc.' for one), but here’s a nod to another corporation.

The toolbox that Buzz Lightyear heaves off the milk crate is labeled Binford Tools which is the name of the company that sponsors the Tool Time segment in Tim (Buzz Lightyear) Allen’s TV sitcom 'Home Improvement'.

I post the above video because while watching (reading?) it I was reminded of one of the topics discussed in the lecture which most interested me, which is the idea that no work can be truly original because everything that comes out of the mind is only really a spiralled and processed interpretation of all the visual, emotional and physical experience we have to draw on.

I'm not sure if someone born in an empty nothingness would ever create anything but either way I believe that provided the information has been spliced and processed thoroughly enough that no sentient thought process and back trace it through the artists original thought processes then the work could be considered original.

Or perhaps nature is the only true creator and we as a species have forever just been perverting and amalgamating our impression of nature into something... different