{"id":3586,"date":"2020-10-19T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2020-10-30T10:25:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T09:25:21","slug":"what-is-a-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/what-is-a-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a pattern?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>IMPORTANT NOTE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Due to COVID the course starts online via video-conference. To register please send an email to Prof. Matteo Pasquinelli: mpasquinelli [\u2202] hfg-karlsruhe.de.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section class=\"block block-text\">\n<div class=\"text default\">\n<p>The course offers an introduction to media theory with a focus on the notion of <strong>pattern<\/strong> (or <em>Gestalt<\/em>). During the 20th century, the notion of pattern has gradually taken on features that traditionally belonged, on the one hand, to abstract ideas (domain of philosophy) and, on the other, to image and form (domain of art and design, or aesthetics in general). In the last years, it happened that the notion of pattern cannibalised also information and data. With social media and data analytics (also used in military operations), the pattern becomes a multi-dimensional construct that describes large social phenomena (see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefunambulist.net\/history\/the-funambulist-papers-57-schematic-bodies-notes-on-a-patterns-genealogy-by-gregoire-chamayou\"><strong>pattern-of-life analysis<\/strong><\/a>). Originally a perceptual form, the pattern has become social.<\/p>\n<p>The course follows the history of the notion in the disciplines of neuroscience, psychology, economics, computer science, art theory and design, spanning from the German school of <a href=\"https:\/\/uxknowledgebase.com\/gestalt-principles-part-1-d021e23de553\"><strong>Gestalttheorie<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(and its <em>Pr\u00e4gnanz<\/em> principles) to the techniques of pattern recognition and pattern generation in artificial intelligence.\u00a0The course is also recommended to first-year students.\u00a0In preparation students are invited to read William Gibson&#8217;s novel\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pattern_Recognition_(novel)\">Pattern Recognition<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A certificate (<em>Schein<\/em>) is possible with credit in Media Philosophy. Students can a) make a project or a presentation in class and write a short essay of ca. 10 pages, or b) write an extensive essay of ca. 20 pages.\u00a0All materials will be shared via Dropbox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"block block-text\">\n<div class=\"text one-column\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Prof. Dr. Matteo Pasquinelli<br \/>\nmpasquinelli [\u2202] hfg-karlsruhe.de<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Mondays and Tuesday, 15:00 \u2013 18:00 \/ online<br \/>\nFortnightly.\u00a0First class: <strong>27 October \u00a02020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Due to electrical maintenance\u00a0works at HfG<br \/>\nthe course starts on Tuesday, 27 October.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"text one-column\">\n<p class=\"pre ng-binding ng-scope\">\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Winter Semester 2020-2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[20,46,18,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions\/3812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}