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GMU:Patterns

2026-05-11T21:45:44Z

Marleenkoe: /* Syllabus */

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=Patterns. Acting in complex environments=
Prof. Ursula Damm, Mindaugas Gapševičius

A pattern describes a regularity in the world that repeats over time or across space, enabling recognition, prediction, and the emergence of order. Patterns in data corpora gained with sensors can only be observed through processes of analysis. However, patterns are not just something that we can recognise or derive from data. Addressing patterns of behavior can be a way of bringing things together, enabling understanding between human, non-human and non-machinic actors.

The use of patterns can bridge the gap between different actors by referring to a known framework through which interaction may happen. By addressing mutually recognisable behaviors, patterns enable forms of understanding, even in matters that are yet unknown.

Gregory Bateson uses the term “pattern which connects” to refer to the interconnectedness and underlying structures that exist within complex systems, whether in nature, society, or mind. He describes these patterns as blueprints that enable exchange, comprehension, and continuity.

One way to understand how patterns can be incorporated into our artistic practice is through the example of dance. When two people dance together, their interaction is shaped by the dances they know, have learned, and how they danced before. Dancing always exceeds what has already been learned before. One might try to understand the other's movements in the context of 'dancing' as an inherited habit. While "reading" the other, one draws on knowledge that has established itself as a mode of social custom. For interacting, it is important to respond directly to the behavior of the other, even when it means departing from the known patterns of dancing. By recognizing the pattern one can even modify it.

The project module welcomes participants to work on self-defined projects. The projects can correspond to their own areas of focus and can move freely within the context of the subject “Patterns.” The module offers literature and a thematic framework to sharpen and intensify the respective artistic practice. Students are expected to be able and willing to work in a self-organized manner and to actively engage in the discourses of the module.

Prerequisites include prior enrollment in a specialized module with the co-workers of GMU or the Interface Design Professorship. An accompanying course of the modules of the professorship is recommended.

To get your credits at the end of the module, you need to deliver an artwork, the media are your choice.

During the first sessions, you are asked to deliver

* a text describing your project (5-10 sentences) (example)
* a picture related to the possible outcome
* a diagram, showing what kind of impressions/data/inputs you will use, how they will be transformed and what should be the outcome. Exampes of artists working with diagrams: [https://www.gansterer.org/ Nicolaus Gansterer,] [https://www.pierogi2000.com/artists/ward-shelley/ Ward Shelly], [https://adelheidmers.org/ Adelheid Mers]
You will be asekd to contextualize your project or to define a context in which your work should resonate. About this context you should make a presentation from about 20-30 minutes during the semester. '''Please let us know on what you will do this small lecture and when it should happen.'''

==Syllabus==
*14.04 [[/Introduction of topic]], presentation of students, presentation of the semester plan, Patterns I
*20.04 [[/Democratisation of Art]] / Vortrag
*21.04 Presentation of portfolios of students, short introduction of idea/project for the module
*27.04 [[/Non-human performances]] / Vortrag
*28.04 Definitive Presentation of the students projects
*04.05 [[/Change of perspectives]] / Vortrag
*05.05 Contextualising presentations of the students (Seoyeon, ...)
*11.05 Patterns IV / Vortrag
*12.05 Contextualising presentations of the students (Moritz, Öykü, Daria, Berkin - on Deleuze, Özge...)
*18.05 Vortrag Michael Fischer
*19.05 Contextualising presentations of the students (Melisa, Marleen...)
*25.05 Whit Monday / Pfingstmontag
*26.05 Mid term presentations of the students
*01.06
*02.06 Mid term presentations of the students
*08.06
*09.06
*15.06
*16.06
*22.06 Vortrag Kathrin Meyer
*23.06 Michael Rudolph & Ursula Damm - Dusseldof Projekt
*29.06
*30.06
*06.07 preparation Summaery Exhibition/Presentation
*07.07 preparation Summaery Exhibition/Presentation

==Students==

* [[/Salma Ali]]
* [[/Lilas Almalla]]
* [[/Melisa Aslan]]
* [[/Tim Auzinger]]
* [[/Özge Börekci]]
* [[/Lidya Colak]]
* [[/Öykü Didinir]]
* [[/Aysenur Eryilmaz]]
* [[/Xenia Günther]]
* [[/Bilge Isguzar]]
* [[/Serap Kacmaz]]
* [[/Marleen Kölmel]]
* [[/Julian Kreller]]
* [[/Moritz Lang]]
* [[/Seoyeon Lee]]
* [[/Daria Lukianchuk]]
* [[User:Hannah Uhlmann|/Hannah Uhlmann]]
* [[/Berkin Yesil]]

==Possible Topics for Presentations: ==

* William Whythe
* [https://magazin.tu-braunschweig.de/en/m-post/picture-of-the-month-chladni-figures/ Chladi Figures]
* Do Ho Suh
* [https://www.haineshinterding.net/ Haines Hinterdinger]
* [https://www.walidraad.com/ Walid Raad]
* [https://tranxxenolab.net/people/adriana_knouf/ Adriana Knouf]
* [https://www.martharosler.net/ Martha Rosler]

==Inserts==
*Kathi Glas: Chicks on Speed
*Michael Fischer: Lecture and Workshop on Tarot as an epistemic system

==Materials==
* Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, p. 470
* Andrew Pickering, “The Cybernetic Brain – Sketches of another future”, The University of Chicago Press. 2011, p. 19 f
* Sacha Kagan, Art and Sustainability. Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity. Transcript 2011. [[File:Sacha Kagan on Bateson.pdf|thumb]]
*Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder: Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices https://researchportal.lsbu.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/13860170/TCC_20_Sollfrank_and_Stalder_15_converted.pdf
*Ursula Damm: Non-Machines Meet Art [[File:Non-Machines Meet Art-m.pdf]]
*Team Scott Gilbert: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be in Microhabitable, edited by Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti [[File:Scott Gilbert.pdf]]
*Andrew Pickering: Mangle of Practice [[File:10-AP-mangle of practice.pdf]]
*Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity. “From Batesons’s Sensibility to the pattern which connects, to a sensibility to patterns that connect” page 225 ff
*[[Cities and Complexity|Michael Batty: Cities and Complexity]] <nowiki>ISBN 9780262524797</nowiki>
*Yvonne Volkart: Plant Intelligence - Towards a Vegetal Aesthetics https://insert.art/ausgaben/plant-intelligence/editorial/
*Ursula Damm Michaela Ott: Individual Interweavements https://insert.art/ausgaben/plant-intelligence/dividual-interweavements/
*[https://archive.org/details/cityshapedurbanp0000kost/mode/2up Spiro Kostof: The city shaped]
*William Whythe: Social Life of Small urban Spaces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QkJkT3M-Us
*Lizan Freijsen: The Living Surface ISBN 978-9490322779

==Artists List==
*Lygia Clark https://portal.lygiaclark.org.br/en/archive
*Artist Talk by Nathalie Jeremijenko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT_ZjbaRw30
*Dawn Corous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF1uihdcZmY
*Tuur van Balen Revital Cohen https://www.cohenvanbalen.com/
*Martha de Menezes https://martademenezes.com/
*David Bowen https://www.dwbowen.com/
*William H White: Social Life of Small Urban Spaces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QkJkT3M-Us
*Granular Synthesis Artists https://granularsynthesis.info/Artists-1
*Ryu Furusawa https://ryufurusawa.com/
*Auger-Loizeau https://vimeo.com/user1914604
*Thomas Thwaites https://www.thomasthwaites.com/
*Hyunkoo Lee https://hyungkoolee.kr
*Alan Wexler http://www.allanwexlerstudio.com/
*Lozano Hemmer https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/
*Disnovation https://disnovation.org/
Ursula Damm's works on patterns:

* [https://ursuladamm.de/spiegeln-drehen-1993 Spiegeln & Drehen]
* [https://ursuladamm.de/trace-pattern-ii-1998 Trace Pattern]
* [https://vimeo.com/5040654 Doves]
* [https://ursuladamm.de/memory-of-space-2002 Memory of Space]
* [https://ursuladamm.de/zeitraum-2005 Timescape]
* [https://ursuladamm.de/598 598]
* [https://ursuladamm.de/transits-2012 Transits]
* [https://ursuladamm.de/u-bahnhof-schadowstrasse Turnstile - Metro Station Schadowstraße]
* [https://ursuladamm.de/membrane-2019 Membrane]
* [https://ursuladamm.de/kontinuum-2020 Kontinuum]
* [https://ursuladamm.de/lichen Lichen Intelligence]

GMU:Patterns/Marleen Kölmel

2026-04-29T14:17:45Z

Marleenkoe:

For my project, I want to explore oil shale, specifically its extraction as well as the renaturation afterwards in my hometown in in the Swabian Alb. Through my photographic practice, I aim to start engaging with the site spatially and visually, identifying traces, patterns as well as structures, and uncovering connections and interrelationships within the landscape, the mining area, the surrounding village, and the restoration zones. During this process I want to delve into the subject matter of oil shale, ecologies, and ecosystems to gain an understanding of the interconnections and patterns. I want to understand the idea of an idyll and the feeling of untouched nature (which is not what there is at all) and how that comes together in the industrial aesthetic of the mining area.

This will hopefully come from the artistic and theoretical input I hope to gain from the course as well as from and with local people I want to connect with to gain a broader understanding of the place and the organisms that inhabit it.

At the moment, I envision a conceptual presentation of a sort of cartography made from my photography series I’m attempting to create this semester. The visual and conceptual presentation should be informed and shaped by the research I will be doing.
[[File:PATTERNS2 MarleenKölmel.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:PATTERNS MarleenKölmel.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:PATTERNS3 MarleenKölmel.jpg|thumb]]

Artistic references I find interesting (coming a lot from photography but also mixing it with other media/Media Art):

[https://susannekriemann.info/hey-monte-schlacko-dear-slagorg/ Susanne Kriemann], [https://eric-meier.com/selected-photographs Eric Meier], Alina Schmuch

GMU:Patterns/Marleen Kölmel

2026-04-29T14:16:04Z

Marleenkoe:

For my project, I want to explore oil shale, specifically its extraction as well as the renaturation afterwards in my hometown in in the Swabian Alb. Through my photographic practice, I aim to start engaging with the site spatially and visually, identifying traces, patterns as well as structures, and uncovering connections and interrelationships within the landscape, the mining area, the surrounding village, and the restoration zones. During this process I want to delve into the subject matter of oil shale, ecologies, and ecosystems to gain an understanding of the interconnections and patterns. I want to understand the idea of an idyll and the feeling of untouched nature (which is not what there is at all) and how that comes together in the industrial aesthetic of the mining area.

This will hopefully come from the artistic and theoretical input I hope to gain from the course as well as from and with local people I want to connect with to gain a broader understanding of the place and the organisms that inhabit it.

At the moment, I envision a conceptual presentation of a sort of cartography made from my photography series I’m attempting to create this semester. The visual and conceptual presentation should be informed and shaped by the research I will be doing.
[[File:PATTERNS2 MarleenKölmel.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:PATTERNS MarleenKölmel.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:PATTERNS3 MarleenKölmel.jpg|thumb]]

Artistic references I find interesting (coming a lot from photography but also mixing it with other media):

[https://susannekriemann.info/hey-monte-schlacko-dear-slagorg/ Susanne Kriemann], [https://eric-meier.com/selected-photographs Eric Meier], Alina Schmuch

GMU:Patterns/Marleen Kölmel

2026-04-29T14:14:28Z

Marleenkoe:

For my project, I want to explore oil shale, specifically its extraction as well as the renaturation afterwards in my hometown. Through my photographic practice, I aim to start engaging with the site spatially and visually, identifying traces, patterns as well as structures, and uncovering connections and interrelationships within the landscape, the mining area, the surrounding village, and the restoration zones. During this process I want to delve into the subject matter of oil shale, ecologies, and ecosystems to gain an understanding of the interconnections and patterns. I want to understand the idea of an idyll and the feeling of untouched nature (which is not what there is at all) and how that comes together in the industrial aesthetic of the mining area.

This will hopefully come from the artistic and theoretical input I hope to gain from the course as well as from and with local people I want to connect with to gain a broader understanding of the place and the organisms that inhabit it.

At the moment, I envision a conceptual presentation of a sort of cartography made from my photography series I’m attempting to create this semester. The visual and conceptual presentation should be informed and shaped by the research I will be doing.
[[File:PATTERNS2 MarleenKölmel.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:PATTERNS MarleenKölmel.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:PATTERNS3 MarleenKölmel.jpg|thumb]]

Artistic references I find interesting (coming a lot from photography but also mixing it with other media):

[https://susannekriemann.info/hey-monte-schlacko-dear-slagorg/ Susanne Kriemann], [https://eric-meier.com/selected-photographs Eric Meier], Alina Schmuch

File:PATTERNS3 MarleenKölmel.jpg

2026-04-29T14:14:02Z

Marleenkoe:

Patterns in the renaturation area

File:PATTERNS2 MarleenKölmel.jpg

2026-04-29T14:12:31Z

Marleenkoe:

Oil Shale Mining site

File:PATTERNS MarleenKölmel.jpg

2026-04-29T14:10:54Z

Marleenkoe:

Plastic Dinosaurs in Oil Shale

GMU:Patterns/Marleen Kölmel

2026-04-29T14:09:09Z

Marleenkoe: Created page with "For my project, I want to explore oil shale, specifically its extraction as well as the renaturation afterwards in my hometown. Through my photographic practice, I aim to start engaging with the site spatially and visually, identifying traces, patterns as well as structures, and uncovering connections and interrelationships within the landscape, the mining area, the surrounding village, and the restoration zones. During this process I want to delve into the subject matte..."

For my project, I want to explore oil shale, specifically its extraction as well as the renaturation afterwards in my hometown. Through my photographic practice, I aim to start engaging with the site spatially and visually, identifying traces, patterns as well as structures, and uncovering connections and interrelationships within the landscape, the mining area, the surrounding village, and the restoration zones. During this process I want to delve into the subject matter of oil shale, ecologies, and ecosystems to gain an understanding of the interconnections and patterns. I want to understand the idea of an idyll and the feeling of untouched nature (which is not what there is at all) and how that comes together in the industrial aesthetic of the mining area.

This will hopefully come from the artistic and theoretical input I hope to gain from the course as well as from and with local people I want to connect with to gain a broader understanding of the place and the organisms that inhabit it.

At the moment, I envision a conceptual presentation of a sort of cartography made from my photography series I’m attempting to create this semester. The visual and conceptual presentation should be informed and shaped by the research I will be doing.

Artistic references I find interesting (coming a lot from photography but also mixing it with other media):

[https://susannekriemann.info/hey-monte-schlacko-dear-slagorg/ Susanne Kriemann], [https://eric-meier.com/selected-photographs Eric Meier], Alina Schmuch