VISIONS OF ATTENTION

Coming at you every week is SoRA's Visions of Attention (VoA) initiative, a growing archive of images and miniature essays that seeks to constellate, from lightning-quick glances and the lingering gazes alike, the fullness of attention's near-magical powers. Think of it as a friendly show-and-tell, an enlivening pinch, a reminder to rise from the observer’s armchair and venture into the world with all senses on the qui vive — alive and at attention!

The prevailing spirit of Visions of Attention is a commitment to — no, a celebration of —  the endless plurality of vision (experimental, speculative, collective) beyond the dominant ways of seeing imposed by regimes of digital control. Can we cast our imagination beyond the horizon of manipulative technologies from within those technologies themselves? Only time will tell. Until then, we invite you in these essays to look upon the world with new eyes — and maybe find some newness in it.