Animation = Artforms?

Norman McLaren is most often cited for his motto: "Animation is not the art of drawings that move, but the art of movements that are drawn. What happens between each frame is much more important than what exists on each frame. Animation is therefore the art of manipulating the invisible interstices that lie between the frames."

Animation is the art of the in-between of the interval.

Could it be acceptable to consider Martin Creed's work No 227, 2001 as a form of expanded animation?

(To view Work No 227 please go to the following- website http://www.martincreed.com/works/workno227.html)

Marcel Duchamp The Large Glass, 1913 to mentally animate the suggested movement. Duchamp also cultivated the notion of the in-between.