Animatrix
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A female animator (one who animates something, brings something to life). rare
"With Foucault, Goldhill assumes that “the desiring subject” (p. 45) is male; in his learned disquisition on the importance of the act of reading (p. 45), Goldhill never addresses the gender of the reader, that curious creature who is at once the target of the text and its reanimator—or animatrix."
- 2 A female animator (one who creates an animation or cartoon). rare
"Video Video, organized by Marien Lewis, video artist and ex-animatrix of A Space, and Monumenta, organized by Stan Denniston, Dave Clarkson and Bernie Miller, two photographers and a sculptor and presently directors of YYZ, are only further proof that such centres have been the seedbeds and forums for advanced art in Canada over the past decade either feeding the commercial or establishment systems or fulfilling the responsibilities such systems have abrogated."
Example
More examples"With Foucault, Goldhill assumes that “the desiring subject” (p. 45) is male; in his learned disquisition on the importance of the act of reading (p. 45), Goldhill never addresses the gender of the reader, that curious creature who is at once the target of the text and its reanimator—or animatrix."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin animātrīx. By surface analysis, animate + -trix.
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