就形式的律動而言，文化傳統可以描述為在内含反饋迴 路之網絡運作下的文化傳輸累積過程中的缓慢出現。此一形式律動 也同樣掌控藝術傳統的誕生、發展與消亡。本文作者論述的問題有 三點：一、任何傳輸都會涉及傳輸内容：以藝術傳輸的情境而言， 其所傳輸的内容性質尤其獨特，作者在文中探討並分析此一特質。 二、傳輸的形式，動態且多樣：根據主導傳輸的形式——垂直的傳 輸、傾斜的傳輸、橫向的傳輸、或逆向的傳輸----傳統也按不同路 徑得以被建構。三、傳統作為一種新興的現實，不可簡單化約為形 構傳統的因素（傳輸行動），即使傳統的更生根本上取決於此因素 (傳輸的鎖鏈一旦被打斷，傳統就會消失）。

Looked at from the standpoint of their formative dynamics, cultural traditions can be described as emerging from the accumulation of transmission processes organized as networks with built-in feedback loops. The same dynamics governs the birth, development and death of artistic traditions. I will address three questions: a) A transmission always involves a transmitted content: in the case of artistic transmission, the contents are of a particular nature, which I will try to analyze. b) Transmission dynamics comes in several forms. Depending on the dominant form — vertical transmission, oblique transmission, horizontal transmission or retrograding transmission — the construction of tradition will follow different lines. c) As an emerging reality, tradition cannot be reduced to its constituent elements (the acts of transmission), even though it is radically dependent on them (a tradition dies out when the chain of transmission is interrupted).