notation is an ongoing web-based project that constructs a spatial-temporal system for investigating the cultural preconditions of circulating images.

notation organizes a spatial-temporal system for investigating the cultural preconditions of circulating 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 within the image to the image itself:
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.

AI operates within notation not as a generative tool, but as an operative memory system and dialogical structure.

notation translates these processes into spatial and temporal relations,
constructing a digital environment in which image conditions can be organized, tested, and transformed.