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  • On Not Defining Drawing: David Griffin
  • This paper examines music notations using the comparative analysis of a taxonomical model, grounded in theories of practice from John Willats, and Nelson Goodman. In other classifications that include the robust Western staff notation, for an example, such drawings have been insufficiently explained, sometimes subsumed into categories of diagram, or at best thrown down as a kind of hub, vaguely associated with an unwieldy number of relations. In this paper, conclusive assessments will made of the relationship between music notations and other drawing systems, in which the reader will see that they are hybrid representation systems, mapping to and from a conjunctive space-time of performance, with characteristics of all of writing, pictorial and denotative drawing.

    Drawing Taxonomy

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    Biographical information

    David Griffin (born in Kingston, Jamaica) is a visual artist and researcher, with a PhD from The Glasgow School of Art in the UK. Currently a member of the Faculty of Art at OCAD University in Toronto, the author has produced a taxonomical analysis of drawing, exploring drawing systems and their potential for exchange, and presented his research at the Music, Image and Silence Colloquium, Brock University in 2012; at the Drawing Research Network 2010 conference at University of Brighton; at the Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference 2010 at Cambridge, UK; and Drawing Out 2010, RMIT, in Melbourne, and has shown his paintings and drawings nationally and abroad.

    David Griffin
    Artist, Educator
    OCAD University, Toronto
    davidgriffin@rogers.com

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