The document outlines a mixed media course consisting of four lectures and exercises centered on the theme of intimacy and self-exposure. It discusses personal identity, human-machine relationships, and features various philosophical quotes and references to films and artworks. Assignments include a presentation focusing on the tension between intimacy and public appearance, to be submitted by a specified date.

1. POWERS OF SCALE 1:
FROM THE SELF
TO THE PUBLIC
four lectures and four exercises for AKI Mixed Media #2

2. INTIMACY
➡
SELF-EXPOSURE
LECTURE 1:

3. Day One:
Our Inside, Our Self
Day Two: Student’s reactions and appendixes
Day Three:
Our Covers, Our Protheses
Day Four: Student’s reactions and appendixes
Day Five:
Our Habitat, Our Biotope
Day Six: Student’s reactions and appendixes
Day Seven:
Our Universal Domain, Our Digital Self
Day Eight: Endgame.

4. INSIDE THE SELF:
20
WATTS

5. 20
WATTS

8. N E U R O N S

9. N E U R O N S

10. Buckminster Fuller / Mankind as transport species
Against Forces Transition Natural

13. “By attributing human qualities to
machines, especially computers, we
loose sense of what is human, have
less understanding of how humans
differ from machines, and construct
an image of powerful machines and
frail humans.”
Raymond Gozzi

17. “If the doors of perception were cleansed
every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all
things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
William Blake

18. The Lawnmower Man (1992)
Brett Leonard
Holy Motors (2012)
Leos Carax

23. “The hallucinatory effect derives
from extraordinary clarity
and not from mystery or mist.
Nothing is more fantastic ultimately than precision”
Alain Robbe-Grillet

37. Mothlight (1962)
Stan Brakhage

38. The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (1971)
Stan Brakhage

39. Assignment for Wednesday, February 27th
Your appendix about
Our Inside, Ourselves - lecture #1
(the tension between
Intimacy and public appearance)
deliverable: a Keynote- or Powerpoint presentation
(film, visuals, tects, animations)
No PDF!
Maximum 5 minuten
Submit before Monday, February 25th to:
tien@xs4all.nl