
Pandemic Lockdown
2020
X. Final Quarantine Gathering
June 19, 2020

Presented by: Adam Jasper & Steveanne Knauss
- Chat Thread
- Collective Annotation
- Friends of Attention, The Twelve Theses
- Friends of Attention, The Twelve Theses Film
IX. Concrete Poetry
June 12, 2020

Presented by: Alex Balgiu & Jeff Dolven
VIII. Ekphrasis as an Attentional Mode
June 5, 2020

Presented by: Leonard Nalencz & Anna Riley
- Chat Thread
- Ekphrastic Exercise
- Homer, “Shield of Achilles”, from the Iliad
- Virgil, “Shield of Aeneas”, from the Aeneid
- Linda Nochlin, excerpt from “Sophie Calle: Word, Image, and the End of Ekphrasis”
VII. Attentional Spelunking
May 29, 2020

Presented by: Justin E.H. Smith – Pareidolia Exercise
- Chat Thread
- Gaston Bachelard, La terre et les rêveries du repos. (English) (French)
- Immanuel Kant, “Critique of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment”, from Critique of Judgment
- G.W. Leibniz, “§20 Fish…” from Protogaea
VI. Attention and Will
May 22, 2020

Part I, Attentional De-Pruning, presented by: Marcos Luytens – Hypnotic Attention Drawings
Part II, presented by: Catherine Hansen
- Chat Thread
- Interview with neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran
- Friends of Attention, Manifesto for the Freedom of Attention
- Simone Weil, “Attention and Will”, from Gravity and Grace
V. Attention and the Camera
May 15, 2020

Presented by: Lane Stroud – Paying Attention with the Camera
W/ special guest Hal Foster.
- Chat Thread
- Steven Jacobs, “Galleries of the Gaze: The Museum in Rossellini’s Viaggio and Hitchcock’s Vertigo“
- Hal Foster, Return of the Real
- Film compilation here
IV. Libidinal Stimulus Package
May 8, 2020

Presented by: Dominic Pettman
W/ special guest Helen Singh-Miller, and kinetic portraiture.
- Chat Thread
- Roland Barthes, How to Live Together
- Vilém Flusser, Natural:Mind
- Paul Rubin, “Freeing the Neck” from Torino II Feldenkrais Training
III. Acting and Politics
May 1, 2020

Presented by: Sonali Chakravarti
With special guest David Richardson, and a listening exercise!
- Chat Thread
- Dennis Longwell, “Building a Foundation: The Reality of Doing”, from Sanford Meisner on Acting
II. Attention and Attention Seeking
April 24, 2020

Presented by: Jeff Dolven
With special guests Stevie Knauss & Grace Caiazza, a Quarantine Check-In.
I. Inauguration
April 17, 2020

Presented by: D. Graham Burnett
- E. Colin Cherry, “Some Experiments on the Recognition of Speech, with One and with Two Ears”
- James Elkins, “How to Look at Nothing”, from How to Use Your Eyes
- Bernard Stiegler, Taking Care of the Youth, and the Generations