Article: Berlin and Karlsruhe: Notation: Calculus and Form in the Arts: Akademie der Kunste and ZKM Center for Art and Media.

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AT LEAST SINCE the late 19th century, notation and notational systems have been crucial to the arts. While their importance in music is the most obvious, their gradually increasing prominence in the other arts has meant, as John Rajchman writes in an essay for this show's exhibition catalogue, a profound change in "the idea of art itself, the ways it is made, talked about, or received." To trace the role of notation in the visual arts, dance, theater, architecture and literature as well as music--and to address the question of what an art of notation might be--was the focus of the thoughtfully selected and beautifully installed exhibition ...

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