First Fridays
(Current)
A conversation with former Google-strategist, philosopher and author James Williams.
Plus, a warm up exercise w/ special guest Jac Mullen,
A conversation hosted by Jeff Dolven and Matthew Spellberg on the Strother School of Radical Attention.
Warm-up exercise led by Ana Marques.
And, a toolkit exercise.
A discussion with Caleb Smith on his new book Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture.
W/ special guest Jared Rankin, an exercise in drifting with the clouds ...
Material:
Caleb Smith, excerpt from Thoreau's Axe
Henry David Thoreau, excerpt from Journal
Micro-documentary film-screenings on diverse practices of attention, with shorts from filmmaker and FoA intern Dylan Liu, and a conversation on the Friends of Attention coalition-building effort.
Plus, a filmic warm-up from Claudia Claremi!
A discussion with Jamie Kreiner on her new book The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction.
Plus, a Centripetal ASMR exercise with Ana Marques, and David B. Landes on The Attention Trove ...
Material:
John Cassian, Collationes excerpt
Professor Kreiner's "ANGEL WING MNEMONIC MEDITATION EXERCISE"
The Centripetal ASMR Spirographic Centering Meditation:
Courtesy of the 2020 ESTAR(SER) residency at the Watermill Center - "Wondergraphic Distraction"
Wondergraphic Distraction, Part I:
Wondergraphic Distraction, Part II:
A discussion with Stefanie Hessler on the forthcoming Attention, Algorithms, and Social Justice exhibition.
W/ special guest Stevie Knauss, and a January intervention protocol.
Presented by: Chris Mole
W/ special guest Jeff Dolven, and an exercise in attending to a philosophical problem.
Material:
Presentation on Attention and Attentiveness
Christopher Mole, On Attention and Adverbialism
Presented by: Eva Nagao
Material:
Excerpt from an interview with Mariame Kaba
Attention as the Discipline of Care
Presented by: Sal Randolph
W/ special guest David Richardson, and an exercise in mutual dreaming.
Material:
Sal Randolph, an excerpt from The Uses of Art
Presented by special guest: Silvia Caprioglio Panizza
W/ special guest Daphne Barile, and an August exercise.
A conversation with artist Lex Brown about love, politics, art, education, and her participation in the "Gramsci Monument" project.
Material:
Lex Brown, "Monument Time"
A screening of Statues Hardly Ever Smile (1971).
Followed by Q&A with producer: Kent Garrett, author of The Last Negroes at Harvard (2020), and a founding member of Black Journal (1968) and "Chamba Productions" (1971).
Material:
Exercise of the Zoom Buddha (in the spirit of Nam June Paik)
A collaborative conversation on curriculum for the upcoming Spring 2022 Attention Labs.
Facilitated by: Lane Stroud and Kristin Lawler
Material:
A collaborative conversation on curriculum for the upcoming Spring 2022 Attention Labs.
Facilitated by: Marcus Ryan
W/ special guest Diego Zamalloa-Chion and "Scenes of Attention."
Presented by special guest: Wayne Wu
Material:
Wayne Wu, "Action always involves attention"
Wayne Wu, "Good Technique in Attention"
Presented by: Sonali Chakravarti and Lane Stroud
Material:
Rachel Syme "On the Nose" from The New Yorker, Vol. XCVI, Iss. 46
A collaborative conversation on the "Handbook for the Attention Liberation Movements" working text drafted as part of the ongoing work of the Politics of Attention Workshops.
Materials:
Friends of Attention, working text of "The Handbook for the Attention Liberation Movements"
Presented by: Aaron E. Hirsh
W/ special guest Jared Rankin, and an exercise in practical nephomancy.
Material:
Allora & Calzadilla, Ted Chiang, "The Great Silence" from e-flux journal #65 SUPERCOMMUNITY
Presented by: Adam Jasper
W/ special guest: Penumbra Knauss, and her reflections on shadows.
Material:
Joseph Rykwert, "The Sciotherum" from The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy, and the Ancient World
Presented by: Carlos Montemayor & Jesse Prinz
W/ special guest: Helen Singh-Miller, and an Action of Joint Attention.
Material:
Carlos Montemayor, some ideas from Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention