I am an artist working across media, with a sustained interest in code, communication, notation, translation, and conceptual systems.
My work explores the fragile space between shared structures and actual understanding. I am interested in how an image, an idea, or a meaning may move between different forms — visual, symbolic, linguistic, and procedural — and how that movement produces shifts, distortions, gaps, and incomplete readings.
Again and again, I return to the fact that a common code does not guarantee understanding. Even where a structure appears shared, meaning remains unstable, displaced, or only partially received. This instability is central to my practice.
I am drawn not only to systems of order, but also to their aberrations: the moments when translation falters, when communication remains unresolved, and when form carries more than it can fully disclose. In this sense, the visible is often only one state of something that begins earlier — in relation, notation, or conceptual form.
Note Painting | Tom Lietzau | Articles
From notation to image — a visual system in development.
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Note Painting
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- [EN] Painting as Transfer, Image as NotationA short reflection on Note Painting through a thought by Mieczysław Porębski The complete article published on Substack “Generally speaking, a painting is nothing else but a projective…
- Malevich’s “Black Square.”
I’m working on an app for Note Painting (NP): an editor for “score-based” notation on a staff, plus a decoder that executes the notation and outputs a clean… - AI & Note Painting
AI tested an NP (Note Painting) decode: took an NP score in SVG and generated a first PNG render using our current IRON/CANON rules. The result still has… - Photography
I starting experimental photography series. These are photographs, not computer graphics. I don’t use a computer to process the photos, just minimal correction. - Protected: datamatrix-np002-23
This content is password protected. - Note Painting vs Code Picture
I started a new version of the language encoding images using the analogue method. I called it “code picture”. Below is the difference between the two coding types,… - “The Song for Itself”
An encoded image that links to its code. - Wonderful & Liked
W&L was a visual-musical, anti-artistic collective active between the years 1990 – 1994, comprised of Hassan, Cyrul Duhe, Lietzau and various guests. It did not have a precise… - Open Studio Weekend 5th-6th October 2019
I will be opening my studio again this year as part of Art on the Hill: The Windmill Hill and Victoria Park Arts Trail. You are invited to…