notations / tenth lecture / July 2nd / 2018

1. Topos / Object
2. Structural Analysis
    (Impulses / Coordinates /
     Volume)
3. Intention / Theme
    and related Core-Question
4. Manifestation /
    Objectivization
5. Method
6. Result
–
about
the six basic editing
fields
to realize a work of
art / design which will
be perceived
by the extraordinary
quality
of being an existential
notation
–
which says
that it’s a narration
based on
and taken from the vivid
aesthetic tension
between the author and
the reality
by which he is
surrounded

Featured

1.1
Topos / Object
(= the object of the artistic exploration)
=
/ object of daily use
/ space (or place)
/ person(s)
the interacting of those
–
or already narratively manifested /
notated in a cultural media:
picture / literature / movie /
theatre / music / dance
and so on
–
both – the Topos / Object or its
narrative manifestation / notation –
are derived from a Meta-Theme;
a question about a phenomenon /
a process (of a social, political,
economic, ecological, philosophical,
religious or educational
aspect / demand / problem)

noli me tangere

1.2
in relation to this lecture
–
/ the Topos / Object is:
„The constellation / composition
of the object’s elements
(of the topology) in general
and how the user / viewer interacts
with them / constitutes itself!“
–
which – regarding to the existential
conditions of each of us –
can be shown very clearly
by the tension between the text /
depicting of
„the dead christ“ and
„noli me tangere“ and the narrative / poetical
constellations (for example by Garcia Lorca)
which deconvolve in between

1.3

1.4

1.5
–
/ the Meta-Theme is the question
„How to teach art + design
in an appropriate way
according to the demands of our time!“

2.1
Structural Analysis
(of the respective object / topos)
/ Impulses / will be fixed as
/ Coordinates / within which the
/ Volume (movement, colour, material)
/ will expand
–
the Structural Analysis delivers
the elements for the design-process
and the clues for
the methodical proceeding
to using the elements

2.3

2.4

reveal the grammatical structure:

2.5

2.6
in relation to this lecture
–
/ the Structural Analysis shows
„There are only two possibilities
to reveal the grammatical structure:
–
1. extracting the coordinates
from the two or three-dimensional
object / topology by
segmenting the angleand
anchor-points and intersections
and connecting them anew
according the physiological or
technical construction of the
formation process
of the object / the topos

turne into so called „word-fields"

2.7
–
2. extracting the coordinates
and their already given connections
from the grammatical construction
of the written language
/ turned into so called „word-fields" /
i.e. from the gestures and movements
related to the grammatical structure of
the human body as
the primary language-tool“

2.8

2.9

movements / colours / materials

3.1
Intention
= can only be defined
by executing the process from
exploring the grammatical
coordinates
in order to fill it with suitable volumes
(movements, colours, materials)
which leads involuntarily
to the intentionality of the narrative

3.2
–
so we must distinguish between
/ the collective intention and
/ the individual intention
and by the same time we have to define
/ how both fields of intention
are connected to the
generally valid references and relations
/ how both types of intentions interact
in the design process

3.3
–
from this now we are able to derive
our individual
/ Theme
/ Core-Question

3.4

in order to be able to write notations

3.5
in relation to this lecture
–
„my intention
(as the one who is giving this lecture)
is divided into three aspects
1. to show you how the process of
creating design or art works
and by this
2. to show it to myself
in order to be able
3. to write notations / narrative
/ text which are parts of the whole texture
of inter-related events /
adventures
(in sense of the definition Giorgio Agamben
has given to the term)

iteration and recursion

3.6
–
notations / narrative / text
are not only interwoven
into the different structures of time
but also brings forth
the notated time-structure again and
again by which we are able
– within the linear readable time –
to participate again at the events /
the adventures in repetitions
and differentiations
effected by the re-occurrence
of the physically shifted iteration
and recursion“

how the objectivization should be manifested

4.1
Manifestation / Objectivization
now we posses all the needed elements
and informations
to describe precisely
how the objectivization should be manifested
i.e. which object / topology
(in its two or three-dimensional form
/ in its presentation within
space and time)
should be realized
and how this has to be done
–
the object may be
graphic-design,
drawing, painting, photography,
movies, interior-design,
fashion-design and so on

4.2
–
the object may be
graphic-design,
drawing, painting, photography,
movies, interior-design,
fashion-design and so on

4.3

I refer both to Structuralism as well as to Mannerism

4.4
in relation to this lecture
–
„What I am called upon to do because
of my history (as part of
the common history on all the different
social, political and cultural levels)
are so called panel paintings.
–
I refer both to Structuralism as well
as to the Age of Mannerism
– in its wide range of architecture /
interior-design / fashion-design /
sculpturing / drawing and painting.“

4.5

Method

5.1
Method
= how the intention
by using of the results of
the structural analysis
is to be manifested / to transform
into an object / topos

5.2
–
in order to use the visual /
material elements
which are the result of defining,
separating and re-connecting
the structural coordinates
(i.e. to in order to realize the
object / topos)
a suitable method must be
found individually

5.3
–
/ the methodical proceeding has to be
derived from the exploration
– of the grammar (construction of the shape)
– of the volume bound in it
– of materiality
/ by focussing on the instructions
which are given by the
performative dimension of the verbs
and the descriptive
material dimension of the adjectives

5.4
–
by a method which is individually developed
the possibilities of an individual
language / expression is becoming more
and more noticeable

all measurement-systems we are used to work with

5.5
in relation to this lecture
–
„The method I started to elaborate
eight years ago
is based on circle matrix which
includes and combines
all measurement-systems we are
used to work with
/ average body dimension 180 to 180 cm
(with sideways outstretched arms) /
/ constellations of the stars
(for example Orion at the winter sky) /
/ space (cardinal directions / longitude and latitude) /
/ time (morning, midday, evening, night /
hours of the day) /
/ 24 basic letters of the alphabet /
/ musical structure of the twelve tone system /
/ different colour-circles
(for example according to Itten) /… “

5.6

Tomaso Carnetto2 July 2018