Strother School of Radical Attention

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WE’RE HIRING!

📡 Our team is accepting applications for the position of ACADEMIC DEAN.

📚 The Dean will oversee SoRA’s academic seminar programming.

The Strother School of Radical Attention Being 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...

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🕊️ 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.

A graphic poster promoting the upcoming EYES UP! Poster Art For Attention Activism exhibition at Strother School of Radical Attention. In the center is a light green box with two green (left is warm, right is cool) semi circles with a photographed eye in the middle. The backdrop is blue. In yellow text, the poster states: EYES UP! Poster Art for Attention Activism Opening Reception at the SoRA Sanctuary Gallery 55 Washington Street, Ste. 736, Brooklyn, NY 07.24 6:30-8:30

Hey 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 !

🎧 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!

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Hurry Up and Linger Weighing the politics of slowness

New from The Empty Cup: we're collecting meditations on the political valence(s) of slowing down
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Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

Will 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-...

LONG-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...

Seats: Limited to 12 (darkroom capacity)

Led by NYC photographer G. Giraldo, whose work explores

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#AnalogPhotography
#MindfulCreativity
#Workshop
#NYCEvents
#Éducation #Filmisnotdead #attentioneconomy #darkroom #criticaltheory

🗓 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.

🔹 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?

Over 3 Monday evenings, you’ll experience what it means to make an image slowly - as every shot demands attention, patience, and intention.

Why join?

LONG-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...

📸 Slow Photography Workshop: Relearn How to See (ONLY 3 Mondays, NYC)

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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.

drawing attention to the connection between personal interspecies bonds and larger symbolic, cosmological systems….

As 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,

horse 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.

the 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

This 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:

A 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).

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Pazyryk Horse Tattoos

Credit: The State Hermitage Museum, via Archaeology Magazine @state_hermitage_museum @archaeologymagazine

#attentionspan #horsetattoos #altaimountains #attentionactivism

Like 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

Through 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.

The 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.

While 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).

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The SILENCE=DEATH project was founded in 1985 by Avram Finkelstein, Brian Howard, Oliver Johnston, Charles Kreloff, Chris Lione, and Jorge Socarrás.

#educationmatters #attentionactivism #attentionattention #activelistening #sonicexperience #nyc

How to actively listen? — The Strother School of Radical Attention Drawing 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...

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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 …

#adhdawareness #arthistory101 #thevillageschool #jansteen #neurodivergentartist #17thcenturyart

The 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?