Week 5: Attention and Ways of Looking
February 23
Claire Bishop, “Introduction” in Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (2024)
Jenny Odell, “Introduction” and “The Case for Nothing” in How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (2019)
February 25
Read these very short prompts/guides to modes of looking & listening:
**Please write one prompt related to attention or forms of looking/listening we might try experiment with in class. This can take place anywhere on campus (the museum, outside, the library). Email this to me by 9am Wednesday. In class, we will leave the classroom to try out different exercises in attention.
** By Friday, February 27 at 12pm, please fill out this form with your selected readings for the midterm:
Claire Bishop, “Introduction” in Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (2024)
Jenny Odell, “Introduction” and “The Case for Nothing” in How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (2019)
February 25
Read these very short prompts/guides to modes of looking & listening:
**Please write one prompt related to attention or forms of looking/listening we might try experiment with in class. This can take place anywhere on campus (the museum, outside, the library). Email this to me by 9am Wednesday. In class, we will leave the classroom to try out different exercises in attention.
** By Friday, February 27 at 12pm, please fill out this form with your selected readings for the midterm: