Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 14/08/2025More info here: static1.squarespace.com/static/647e2...static1.squarespace.com 000
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 14/08/2025WE’RE HIRING! 📡 Our team is accepting applications for the position of ACADEMIC DEAN. 📚 The Dean will oversee SoRA’s academic seminar programming. 110
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 11/08/2025www.schoolofattention.org/enroll/p/pea...schoolofattention.orgThe Strother School of Radical AttentionBeing attentive is — literally — the beginning of peace. The cacophony of power struggles and the clamor of endless action distract many from the responsibility to find, share and protect peace. In th... 000
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 11/08/2025🕊️ What does it take to make peace? Join us for PEACEMAKING — a deep dive into the history and practice of attention in conflict resolution, led by Andrea Bartoli, President of the Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue. 120
Reposted by Strother School of Radical AttentionJUNO! @junotdraws.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Hey guys! Really excited to announce that I will be part of n upcoming exhibition happening at the SoRA Sanctuary! You can find more info through @schoolofattention.bsky.social ! 101
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 10/07/2025🎧 What does it mean to be a "FAN" in a time of streaming and algorithmic music taste? 🎧 Join us for for our seminar on POP FANDOMS, where we’re diving into music, celebrities, and the communities that form around them! Enroll now: www.schoolofattention.org/enroll/p/fan... 010
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 08/07/2025New from The Empty Cup: we're collecting meditations on the political valence(s) of slowing down open.substack.com/pub/schoolof...open.substack.comHurry Up and LingerWeighing the politics of slowness 000
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 30/04/2025New! We're exploring ambient media over at The Empty Cup. Hope you'll join us... schoolofattention.substack.com 000
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Will the humanities survive artificial intelligence? SoRA co-founder D. Graham Burnett grapples with teaching and learning in the age of AI in @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comWill the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring. 011
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Seats: Limited to 12 (darkroom capacity) Led by NYC photographer G. Giraldo, whose work explores 🔗 Sign up here: shorturl.at/DpyHs #AnalogPhotography #MindfulCreativity #Workshop #NYCEvents #Éducation #Filmisnotdead #attentioneconomy #darkroom #criticaltheoryshorturl.atLONG-FORM CAPTURE (4/28 - 5/12)At its inception, photography was a slow and technical effort. Making an image required attention to physical, chemical, and mechanical processes that unfolded on various timescales. This seminar will... 000
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/04/2025🗓 So! Let's get to the details: Dates: April 28th-May 12, 6:45–9:15 PM ET Location: SoRA Sanctuary Investment: Pay what you can ($200 *subsidized*/$250 base /$280 supporter) Scholarship opportunities & payment plans are also offered. We believe in accessible high-quality education for everyone. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/04/2025🔹 Rebel against instant gratification: Discover how time shapes creativity. 🔹 Tangible learning: Build, shoot, and develop your own analog images (!!!) 🔹 Discussions: How does slowing down change what (and why) we capture? how does this all deeply affect our muddled attention span? 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Over 3 Monday evenings, you’ll experience what it means to make an image slowly - as every shot demands attention, patience, and intention. Why join? 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/04/2025📸 Slow Photography Workshop: Relearn How to See (ONLY 3 Mondays, NYC) 🔗 Sign up here: shorturl.at/DpyHs We take thousands of photos—but how many do we truly see? In this hands-on workshop, we’re stripping photography back to its roots: pinhole cameras, paper negatives, and chemical processing.shorturl.atLONG-FORM CAPTURE (4/28 - 5/12)At its inception, photography was a slow and technical effort. Making an image required attention to physical, chemical, and mechanical processes that unfolded on various timescales. This seminar will... 140
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 14/04/2025drawing attention to the connection between personal interspecies bonds and larger symbolic, cosmological systems…. 000
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 14/04/2025As horses and humans grow together, horses also become a measure of time and mark the milestone events of a person’s life. While the mutual human-horse bond was shared by the community overall, tattoos mark skin, or the very “interface” between individual bodies and the world, 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 14/04/2025horse riding was seen as an apprenticeship in learning the language of horses, and experienced horses continue to be seen in Eurasian equestrianism as “schoolmasters” that bring their individualized techniques to train riders. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 14/04/2025the vulnerable ritual of receiving the tattoo, new attitudes and beliefs that it imbues on the individual, and its intentional preservation long after other body parts have disintegrated. In “Inked: Human-Horse Apprenticeship, Tattoos, and Time in the Pazyryk World,”Gala Argent emphasizes that 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 14/04/2025This may be surprising considering that they almost never revealed skin in public. As something literally carved into the skin, these elaborate designs suggest the relationships that can be created through embodied attention even when they are not intended to be appreciated in public: 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 14/04/2025A tribe that inhabited the Altai Mountains of Siberia, the Pazyryks maintained a lifelong bond to horses that was crucial to their nomadic lifestyle and trading — so much that horses are found on tattooed mummies dated to the Iron Age (6th to 3rd centuries BC). 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 14/04/2025🐎 VoA 007 👁️🗨️ Pazyryk Horse Tattoos Credit: The State Hermitage Museum, via Archaeology Magazine @state_hermitage_museum @archaeologymagazine #attentionspan #horsetattoos #altaimountains #attentionactivism 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Like the phrase “SILENCE=DEATH,” the symbol is also at once specific and universal, originating from the pink triangle gay prisoners in Nazi camps were forced to wear and later reappropriated by gay activists in the 1970s. #pridenyc #posterdesign #attentionspan #artessay 000
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Through a collaborative process lasting nine months, the artists came to the consensus that an abstract symbol would be more inclusive than the depiction of specific places and figures. 110
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The bold, urgent, color contrast between black, white, and dark pink would have jumped out from a sea of wheat-pasted posters in NY. The simplicity and directness of the design is key to its ability to both grab attention from afar and sustain it by drawing viewers closer to read the fine print. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 03/04/2025While the impact of grassroots initiatives in raising awareness and changing public policy on HIV/AIDS is now widely recognized, posters like this one were crucial in converting attention into action by catalyzing the formation of groups like AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 03/04/2025VoA 006 ⚜️ SILENCE=DEATH, 1987 The SILENCE=DEATH project was founded in 1985 by Avram Finkelstein, Brian Howard, Oliver Johnston, Charles Kreloff, Chris Lione, and Jorge Socarrás. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 27/03/2025#educationmatters #attentionactivism #attentionattention #activelistening #sonicexperience #nyc 000
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 27/03/2025www.schoolofattention.org/enroll/p/sou... ℹ️ Take SoRA’s SOUNDSCAPING Class On Monday the 31st, for 3 weeks, You will start in the beautiful studio space , then make way to the streets of NYC A curated mix of electronic music, everyday sounds, headphone tours, and contour drawings …schoolofattention.orgHow to actively listen? — The Strother School of Radical AttentionDrawing inspiration from artists such as Francisco López, and Christina Kubisch, we will expand auditory awareness through durational exercises that incorporate drawing, movement, sounding, and learni... 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 26/03/2025#adhdawareness #arthistory101 #thevillageschool #jansteen #neurodivergentartist #17thcenturyart 000
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The Village School invites us to reflect upon the historical contingency of different modes of attention — and to wonder exactly how much has changed in the ways that we give our minds and senses to the world. What is to be found, or lost, in the reinterpretation of such a work? 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Can we say the work depicts a neurological condition, or is it simply a lively day in the relatively less-structured environment of a 17th century classroom? 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 26/03/2025While symptoms of ADHD vary considerably and a formal diagnosis did not emerge until the late 1960s, the painting – which predates the formal field of psychology itself by over two centuries – invites nuanced interpretation. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The children depicted in Steen’s painting exhibit behaviors that meet many of the criteria designated by psychologists for ADHD, including leaving their seat, fidgeting, running around, difficulty playing quietly, and excessive talking. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 26/03/2025VoA 005 📒 The Village School by Jan Steen c. 1670 Jan Steen’s 17th-century painting The Village School has intrigued historians and psychologists alike as perhaps the earliest portrayal of modern day Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 20/03/2025The upshot? A vision of spaces with “Freedom from the forces poised to exploit and compromise our attention. Freedom to explore, experiment, and play with practices of attention…” Learn more about ATTENTION ACTIVISM and SANCTUARIES at our website! 010
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 20/03/2025🔔 Hear that? That’s the sound of PEER REVIEW! A new paper from D. Graham Burnett and Eve Mitchell, published today by the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (@nyasciences) nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 110
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 18/03/2025🎨 Artifacts is curated by Federica Soletta (@fs2363) and supported by the exhibition committee: Raya Hazell, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Joanna Fiduccia, and Claudia Claremi. The gallery is open by appointment only ✨ #nycartgallery #freenyc #dumborat #exhibitionart #attentionspan #attentioneconomy 000
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 18/03/2025🗓️If you missed the opening, stay tuned for an update on Art in DUMBO’s Open Studios (April 26–27, 1–6 PM), where you’ll have the chance to experience Artifacts alongside SoRA’s signature participatory workshop, Attention Labs. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 18/03/2025🖼️ We were delighted to engage in conversations—both with old friends and new faces—during @art_dumbo’s First Thursday Gallery Walk. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 18/03/2025👩🎨👩🚀✍️Featuring works by artist Anna Von Mertens (@annavonmertens) and art historian Jennifer L. Roberts, Artifacts draws inspiration from the legacy of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, bridging art and science in compelling ways. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 18/03/2025⚡️An artist, an astronomer, and an art historian walk into a room… That spirit of dynamic dialogue filled the Sanctuary Gallery at the opening of Artifacts, our current exhibition on view through May 8. www.schoolofattention.org/sanctuary-ga... 110
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/03/2025❓ ❓What does this tell us about our attention — and about the peculiar power exerted upon us by the unknown? #Zeuxis #Parrhasius #NaturalisHistoria #JacquesLacan 000
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/03/2025This desire is what prompted onlookers to “buy into” Parrhasius’ visual trick. The act of uncovering the illusion itself was the source of their fascination. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/03/2025If some see Parrhasius as the clear victor, is it simply because he managed to persuade human beings instead of birds? Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan used this parable to point out a supposedly unique characteristic of human attention: the desire to uncover the hidden. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Zeuxis painted an image of grapes so lifelike that hungry birds flew into it — an impressive feat of realism. Parrhasius countered with a painting obscured by a veil. Only when onlookers approached to uncover the image within did they realize the veil itself was painted. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/03/2025According to Pliny’s chronicle Naturalis Historia, the ancient Greek painters Zeuxis and Parrhasius were so skillful at rendering reality that one day they decided to test their abilities with a contest. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/03/2025VoA 004 🍇 Zeuxis and Parrhasius, 4th Century B.C. Zeuxis painting the portrait of Juno from the features of five different women; (below) Parrhasius deceives onlookers with a painting of a veil over a painting, and birds with a painting of grapes. 100
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Gracias @telemundo.bsky.social! We loved having you at the school. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CFH...youtube.comEl lado oscuro de la tecnología: expertos explican por qué usuarios pasan horas viendo el celularYouTube video by Al Rojo Vivo 000
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 21/02/2025🎧 Listen here! 🎧 SoRA's Program Director Peter Schmidt joins Gwen Olton and Alexandria Hoang to talk ATTENTION ACTIVISM with @wxxirochester.bsky.social's Evan Dawson. www.wxxinews.org/show/connect...wxxinews.orgHow to regain our attention span and resist "attention fracking"In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 2/19/25, our guests explain how technology has led to "attention fracking," and what experts recommend we do to rebuild our attention span. 010
Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/02/2025#attentionactivism #attentionspan #education #politicalscience #activisteducation 000