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Over the last century, human attention has been re-defined as the ability to sit still, monitor screens, and select for a task. This seminar explores how that transformation was developed in laboratories, and how attention activists today are breaking open the frame. We will work across two parallel spaces over six weeks: SoRA's seminar room, and a studio at Pioneer Works.
At SoRA, we will trace the entanglement of lab and art practices from the late nineteenth century to the present, through test subjects, apparatuses, experimental choreographies, reenactment, and the aesthetics of objectivity. We will examine the history of psychological "attention studies" across research programs including Edward B. Titchener's psychometrics and Wilhelm Wundt's reaction-time rigs.
At Pioneer Works, we will create a full-scale reconstruction of Titchener's 1890s acoustic experiments from the Cornell laboratory as a site for our own hands-on thinking about attention.
Across both spaces, we will make and think about and reimagine human-machine relationships — their histories, critiques, and afterlives in art.
Led by Julian Chehirian, multimedia artist, historian of science, and current Visual Arts Resident at Pioneer Works.
Note: This special six-week Studio Seminar will meet at SoRA’s Sanctuary Gallery on Saturdays June 20th, July 11th, and July 25th, and at Pioneer Works on June 27th, July 18th, and August 1st.
Saturdays, 2:00-4:30pm
June 20th - August 1st (no class on July 4th)
Our courses cost $250, with an Advanced rate for students with an income above 100k. We also offer a Discounted rate for students with constraining circumstances.
Please see our Refund Policy HERE.
Additionally, we offer three tuition-waiver scholarships per course. To apply for a scholarship, click HERE.
Over the last century, human attention has been re-defined as the ability to sit still, monitor screens, and select for a task. This seminar explores how that transformation was developed in laboratories, and how attention activists today are breaking open the frame. We will work across two parallel spaces over six weeks: SoRA's seminar room, and a studio at Pioneer Works.
At SoRA, we will trace the entanglement of lab and art practices from the late nineteenth century to the present, through test subjects, apparatuses, experimental choreographies, reenactment, and the aesthetics of objectivity. We will examine the history of psychological "attention studies" across research programs including Edward B. Titchener's psychometrics and Wilhelm Wundt's reaction-time rigs.
At Pioneer Works, we will create a full-scale reconstruction of Titchener's 1890s acoustic experiments from the Cornell laboratory as a site for our own hands-on thinking about attention.
Across both spaces, we will make and think about and reimagine human-machine relationships — their histories, critiques, and afterlives in art.
Led by Julian Chehirian, multimedia artist, historian of science, and current Visual Arts Resident at Pioneer Works.
Note: This special six-week Studio Seminar will meet at SoRA’s Sanctuary Gallery on Saturdays June 20th, July 11th, and July 25th, and at Pioneer Works on June 27th, July 18th, and August 1st.
Saturdays, 2:00-4:30pm
June 20th - August 1st (no class on July 4th)
Our courses cost $250, with an Advanced rate for students with an income above 100k. We also offer a Discounted rate for students with constraining circumstances.
Please see our Refund Policy HERE.
Additionally, we offer three tuition-waiver scholarships per course. To apply for a scholarship, click HERE.