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

• Chat Thread
• Poetic Cacophony
• A Reading of Concrete Poetry
• Concrete Poems, from Women in Concrete Poetry, 1959 – 1979
• Rosemarie Waldrop, “A Basis of Concrete Poetry”

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.

• Quarantine Check-In
• Adam Philips, Attention Seeking

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