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日本語訳は下方にあります。 --- METHOD NO. 22 (MAY 1, 2003) Email-Bulletin "METHOD" is a free monthly on "Method Painting, Method Poem, Method Music (Methodicist Manifesto)." Publishers are three Japanese artists, Hideki Nakazawa, a (visual) artist, Shigeru Matsui, a poet, and Masahiro Miwa, a composer. You can read the manifestos of Methodicism at http://aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/method/ This issue, METHOD NO. 22, carries a text by Hideki Nakazawa and a web piece by Shigeru Matsui, and word and info by the three Methodicists. >>>METHODICIST'S TEXT OF THIS MONTH: Two Types of Method Paintings: Coordinates And a Set by Hideki Nakazawa, artist Method paintings can be broadly divided into two types; the type of coordinates and the type of a set. This classification will involve an argument about where the paintings to be reduced. As I wrote before, a painting is an accumulation of color dots, while a method painting is an accumulation of signs (*1). A reduction has taken place when I used signs instead of color dots, that is, the reduction (or the discard) of physiology, the actual sense of sight. The next matter is how to place signs. One way is to place them in their respective fixed places like in a grid, which means to give a certain coordinates value to each sign. That way is of the type of coordinates, whose examples made by Japanese letters and pieces for a board game, "go," are at: aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/method/work016.html The other way is to place signs into a certain region but not in any fixed places, which means that each sign is movable, or, merely an element of a certain set determined by "{," at the left end, and "}," at the right end. That way is of the type of a set. An example of a set of numbers is at: aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/method/work012.html and coins in a plastic bag which means a certain region like "{}" is at: aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/portfolio/jpg/op101moneyamount26.html From one reductionistic point of view, the type of a set is superior because it succeeded in discarding even a coordinates system, which means that a painting is no longer required to be a static plane. However, from another reductionistic point of view, only the reduction of physiology is sufficient for being method paintings; the discard of a coordinates system is unnecessary. Therefore, I just say there are two types in method paintings; the type of coordinates and the type of a set. Let me introduce a further example of the type of coordinates. All the signs are basically of the same
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