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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.

Please send a short letter of motivation to Ursula.damm “at” uni-weimar.de before inscribing in the module.

==Syllabus==
*14.04 Introduction of topic, presentation of students, presentation of the semester plan
*21.04 Presentation of portfolios of students, short introdution of idea/project for the module
*28.04 Reading Discussion Text Sollfrank Stalder
*05.05 Lecture by Michael Fischer, Insights into Esoteric Currents of Might and Magic and exercises for your prospective practices and ontologies
*12.05
*19.05
*26.05
*02.06
*09.06
*16.06
*23.06
*30.06
*01.07
*14.07 Summaery Exhibition/Presentation

==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
*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/

==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

2026-04-01T04:43:29Z

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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.

Please send a short letter of motivation to Ursula.damm “at” uni-weimar.de before inscribing in the module.

==Syllabus==
*14.04 Introduction of topic, presentation of students, presentation of the semester plan
*21.04 Presentation of portfolios of students, short introdution of idea/project for the module
*28.04 Reading Discussion Text Sollfrank Stalder
*05.05 Lecture by Michael Fischer, Insights into Esoteric Currents of Might and Magic and exercises for your prospective practices and ontologies
*12.05
*19.05
*26.05
*02.06
*09.06
*16.06
*23.06
*30.06
*01.07
*14.07 Summaery Exhibition/Presentation

==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
*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/

==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/

GMU:Patterns

2026-04-01T04:42:27Z

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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.

Please send a short letter of motivation to Ursula.damm “at” uni-weimar.de before inscribing in the module.

==Syllabus==
*14.04 Introduction of topic, presentation of students, presentation of the semester plan
*21.04 Presentation of portfolios of students, short introdution of idea/project for the module
*28.04 Reading Discussion Text Sollfrank Stalder
*05.05 Lecture by Michael Fischer, Insights into Esoteric Currents of Might and Magic and exercises for your prospective practices and ontologies
*12.05
*19.05
*26.05
*02.06
*09.06
*16.06
*23.06
*30.06
*01.07
*14.07 Summaery Exhibition/Presentation

==Inserts==
*Kathi Glas: Chicks on Speed
*Kathrin Meyer zu Besuch (Sinclair House Bad Homburg)
*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
*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/

==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/