First Fridays
2024
IX. Teaching Attention
December 2024
Expanding the Attention Curriculum with the Strother School’s “Attention Activist” teachers.
Special warm-up with Sasha Wizansky and Pencil magazine
VIII. Sanctuary Guidelines Working Group Update
November 2024
Presented by Strother School facilitator Eve Mitchell
And a warm-up exercise with Jahony Germosen, Conjuring Sanctuary
VII. Attention, Emojis, and Climate
October 2024
Thinking on new strategies for networked collective action, with special guest Etienne Turpin.
VI. Attention and the Law: A Report on Politics of Attention VI
September 2024
People are evidently inclined to grant legitimacy to anything that is or seems inevitable no matter how painful it may be. Otherwise, the pain might be intolerable. The conquest of this sense of inevitability is essential to the development of politically effective moral outrage. For this to happen, people must perceive and define their situation as the consequence of human injustice.
Barrington Moore
A report on the 2024 Politics of Attention VI residency, Attention and the Law.
V. Attention, Relevance, and Irrelevance
May 2024
A conversation with Elisa Tamarkin on attention, relevance, and irrelevance, and an exercise in “Silence as Speech.”
Plus, a special report from Friend of Attention Julian Chehirian on the “searchlight” attention-effects in his collaborative installation at this year’s Venice Biennial.
IV. Photography, Stillness, Attention
April 2024
A conversation with special guest Professor Carolin Duttlinger on her book Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture.
III. Attention, Music, and Immersion
March 2024
A conversation with musicologist Natalie Miller on immersive soundscapes.
And, an exercise in listening and looking, along with the video for the exercise.
II. Attention and the Group Chat
February 2024
A conversation with critic and journalist Sophie Haigney on How Group Chats Rule the World!
An exercise in Mapping the Chat. And the Maps of the Chat!
I. Rhetorics of Attention
January 2024
Reflections on the Rhetorics of Attention with friend of attention, David Landes!
And, an exercise in Alethic Attention.