notation is an ongoing web-based project that emerged from an investigation of collective visual memory and the cultural circulation of images.

It does not work on images as isolated objects, but on the conditions of their appearance:
their sedimentation, coupling, and condensation within collective visual memory.

The work shifts the site of investigation from the image itself to the conditions of its appearance:
from composition and surface toward the structures that prefigure how images emerge, persist, and return.

Its material is not the singular image.

Images appear here as culturally preconditioned forms:
shaped by repetition, memory, affect, and inherited visual structures.

Rather than investigating individual images, notation examines the conditions under which images, memories, and forms of attention become coupled. These relations are neither fixed nor stable. They emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure over time, producing temporary constellations rather than permanent structures.

notation translates these questions into a spatial-temporal behavioural field.

Different temporal scales coexist within the field. Short-lived events disappear, while longer-term changes gradually alter its disposition. Memory does not appear as a fixed archive of objects, but as an ongoing process of sedimentation and erosion in which relations remain subject to change.

The work investigates how conditions of appearance, memory, and perception are continuously shaped through processes of coupling, transformation, and reconfiguration.