I am a designer, media artist, and educator based in New York and Berlin.
I am currently full-time faculty at Parsons School of Design and co-director of the Observational Practices Lab at The New School University. Since 2013, I have also co-directed the 45 Symbols Project.
My research is specifically concerned with the merging of the natural, the artificial, and the speculative, bringing together people across disciplines and cultural backgrounds. This work manifests in publications on paper and screen, as well as in spatial installations.
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Object America
Atlas of Looking at Water
electronic-life-forms
Soil to Signal

Teaching
Radical Records of Nature
The Visual Archive
fridayfonts

Texts, Research, & Records
(Selection)

Forthcoming: Arcioli, Olivier, Pascal Glissmann, and Andreas Henrich, eds. 45 Symbols—Clay to Code: Visual Language as Cultural Record. Karlsruhe: Slanted Publishers.

Forthcoming: Glissmann, Pascal. A Landscape Inside a Tent—On Embodied Learning with José Clemente Orozco. Public Seminar, The New School.

Glissmann, Pascal. “The Atlas of Speculative Mineralogy." Photomedia: Photographic Practice & Artistic Research, Aalto University School of Arts, Helsinki, Finland.

Glissmann, Pascal, and Selena Kimball. “Atlas of Everyday Objects—In the Age of Global Social Isolation.” Design and Culture 13, no. 1 (March): COVID-19 Dispatches.

Brewer, Jenny. “Parsons School of Design Wants to Document the Objects of Our Collective Isolation.” It’s Nice That.

Cuadrado, Alberto, and Pascal Glissmann. “Speak Music Speak Design—Peer-to-Peer Learning across Disciplines.” In Collaboration in Design Education. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

Glissmann, Pascal, and Selena Kimball. An Interdisciplinary Reimagining of America. Public Seminar, The New School.

Arcioli, Olivier, Pascal Glissmann, and Andreas Henrich. The Phaistos Project—Forty-five Symbols. Online Circulation, IEEE VISAP 2018 Conference “Data and Identities,” Berlin.

Glissmann, Pascal, and Selena Kimball. “Object America: Observational Practices and the Everyday.” In To Get There: Designing Together,
Proceedings of the Cumulus Conference Paris.

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