The document outlines a series of lectures and exercises focused on the concepts of individual identity and digital presence over a week-long program in crossmedia design. It mixes ideas of animism and technology, referencing notable thinkers such as Richard Buckminster Fuller and includes reflections on the intersection of nature and digital culture. The program culminates in a final assignment inviting contributions that capture participants' digital selves.

1. POWERS OF SCALE 4:
Our Universal Domain, Our Digital Self
FROM THE SELF
TO THE PUBLIC
Four Lectures and Four Excersises for AKI Crossmedia Design

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

3. Richard Buckminster Fuller - Man on Earth: Transport Species

4. Richard Buckminster Fuller - Man on Earth: Transport Species

5. Richard Buckminster Fuller - Man on Earth: Transport Species

10. THE COSMIC WEB

11. WEBVERSE

15. LO AND BEHOLD

24. Lawrence Maxwell Krauss

25. PAUZE /
INTERMISSION

27. techno-animism
&
the internet of things

28. The world is full of people, only some of whom are human.
Ojibwe Saying
Irving Hallowell, anthropologist (18992-1974)

29. Animism: a worldview that does not discriminate
between living and non-living matter but believes
in universal animation of nature.
Edward Burnett Tylor
Primitive Culture (1871)

31. ! ‫پاییز‬ ،‫سنگی‬ ‫
باغ‬
The Stone Garden / Baq-i Sangi
Darvish Khan Esfandiarpoor

34. dispersion
∞
serendipity
condensation
∞
proximity
oblique strategies
∞
oblique communication

35. dispersion
∞
serendipity

46. condensation
∞
proximity

47. ‫תפילין‬

50. oblique strategies
∞
oblique communication

53. The Well.
“ The town may be changed but the well cannot be
changed. It neither decreases nor increases. They
come and go and draw from the well. If one gets
down almost to the water and the rope does not go
all the way, or the jug breaks, it brings misfurtune.”
I Ching Hexagram 48 - Ching / The Well

55. οἶδα δ'ἐγὼ ψάμμου τ᾽ ἀριθμὸν καὶ μέτρα θαλάσσης,
καὶ κωφοῦ συνίημι, καὶ οὐ φωνεῦντος ἀκούω. ὀδμή
μ᾽ ἐς φρένας ἦλθε κραταιρίνοιο χελώνης ἑψομένης
ἐν χαλκῷ ἅμ᾽ ἀρνείοισι κρέεσσιν, ᾗ χαλκὸς μὲν
ὑπέστρωται, χαλκὸν δ᾽ ἐπιέσται.
✱
I count the grains of sand on the beach and measure the
sea; I understand the speech of the dumb and hear the
voiceless. The smell has come to my sense of a hard
shelled tortoise boiling and bubbling with a lamb's flesh
in a bronze pot: the cauldron underneath it is of bronze,
and bronze is the lid.

57. “Give way to your worst impulse”.
Brian Eno/Peter Schmidt
Oblique Strategies/Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas Card Deck (1975)

59. dispersion
∞
serendipity
condensation
∞
proximity
oblique strategies
∞
oblique communication

60. Animism is the flip side of rationalism and the belief
in techno-scientific progress. Here, animism acquires
another layer of meaning — one that does not point to
a strange form of religion but to the paradoxical and
animating effects of endorsed technological and
scientific practices.”
Cornelius Borck
E-flux - Journal #36 - July 2012

62. E here kau mai te Awa nui
Mai i te Kahui Maunga ki Tangaroa
Ko au te Awn, ko te Awa ko au
The Great River flows from the Mountains to the Sea
I am the River, and the River is me.

63. Ruruku Whakatupua Te Mana o te Awn Tupua
✱
(upholding the Mana of the Whanganui River)

64. The hallucinatory effect derives
from the extraordinary clarity
and not from mystery or mist.
Nothing is more fantastic ultimately than precision.
André Robbe-Grillet

65. DAG 8
ENDGAME:
utopia/dystopia/heterotopia

68. assignment / opdracht - 29 Mei/May
your / jouw contribution
Our Universal Domain - Our Digital Self
Ons Universele Domein - Ons Digitale Zelf
ONE IMAGE/SOUND/FILM CLIP - MAX 5 SECONDS
ÉÉN AFBEELDING/GELUID/FILM - MAX 5 SECONDEN
OUR DIGITAL SELF
deadline zondag/sunday 26 mei/May naar/to
tien@xs4all.nl of/or R.vanTienhoven@ArtEZ.nl