Terminology: Transcription (visual)

transcription (visual)

/tran•scrip•tion/

noun

The act of producing marks through continuation rather than composition, where execution replaces creativity and correctness replaces expression.

Terminology: Abstract Transcriptionism

 abstract transcriptionism

/ab•stract tran•scrip•tion•ism/

noun

A post-autonomous form of transcriptionism in which abstraction is not invented but impressed through repetitive, regulated mark-making, governed by legal and theological limits. The image is not sought. The process is the site of meaning.

see also: Transcription (visual), Transcriptionism

Terminology: Transcriptionism

 transcriptionism

/tran•scrip•tion•ism/

noun

1. A procedural visual practice in which marks are produced through continuation under constraint, without planning, depiction, narration, or expressive intent.
2. A method of making in which the hand functions as an instrument of execution, not expression, and form emerges only as a byproduct of sustained compliance.
3. In Islamic legal context, a mode of abstraction structured by submission, restraint, and aniconism, rejecting mimesis, imagination, and autonomous invention.

see also: Transcription (visual), Abstract Transcriptionism