Arti Journal Issue #3: NOTATION

The third issue of the ARTI Journal RTRSRCH will be devoted to the topic of [NOTATION]. ARTI (Artistic Research, Theory and Innovation) is a research group at the Amsterdam School of the Arts actively engaged in practice-based research processes and chaired by Marijke Hoogenboom, professor of Art Practice cheap secured loans & Development and Henk Borgdorff, professor of Art Theory & Research. The issue will feature several contributions from Inside Movement Knowledge as well as material from other ARTI group members. The full contents list will be posted here later. This post is to speculate on the title [NOTATION] which is in brackets on purpose to indicate a freedom from context. Most domains have some form of notation that is useful for recoverable gestures, recording for future transactions, problem-solving and communicative shared action. Notations have properties that afford this range of use-functions. But if notations are a type of information artefact, other artefacts have similar properties: models, documents, classification systems, indexes, diagrams and graphs. So, this issue of the ARTI journal is not singularly concerned with notation as it might loans 100 be used in the context of, e.g. dance, music, mathematics, morse code or programming languages. [NOTATION] resists the idea that there needs to be a comprehensive ‘system’ for notation to function as such; notations may even support interoperabiliity between systems.

(Some inspiration for these ideas comes from the cognitive sciences and in particular the work of Thomas Green and Alan Blackwell on the cognitive dimensions of notation systems; but also from Nelson Goodman’s seminal Languages of Art).