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The CCS Bard Method Camp symposium at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College was conceived as a space for reflection on method rather than outcome and is dedicated to examining the foundational practices that shape curatorial work and its adjacent fields.
For this second annual symposium, CCS Bard Method Camp: Attention begins from the intuition that attention has become one of the defining questions of our time. We are constantly told that our attention is under threat, fragmented by technological platforms, information overload, and competing demands. Rather than focusing exclusively on the crisis of attention, we hope to explore attention as a method: how we learn to listen, to observe, to focus, to remain present, and to perceive what might otherwise go unnoticed. We are particularly interested in personal accounts of practice: reflections on habits, protocols, exercises, rituals, doubts, discoveries, and forms of discipline that shape how attention operates in our work.
This one-day symposium, organized by Mariano López Seoane, consists of two 90-minute panels bringing together a small group of invited participants, followed by conversation and exchange among the speakers and the public. The program foregrounds case-based reflections on process, offering insight into the intellectual, material, and affective dimensions of attention across fields.
Schedule:
11:20am
Introductory remarks by Mariano López Seoane (Director of the Graduate Program and ISLAA Fellow in Latin American Art, CCS Bard)
11:30am - 1pm
First Panel: Technologies of Attention
Moderator: Lara Fresko Madra (Assistant Professor and Luma Fellow, CCS Bard)
D. Graham Burnett (Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University)
Julian Chehirian (Princeton University)
Xiaoyu Weng (Writer and curator)
1pm - 2pm
Lunch Break
2pm-3:30pm
Second Panel: Attention and its Discontents
Moderator: Alex Kitnick (Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, Bard College)
Gabriel Giorgi (Professor at New York University)
Ariana Reines (Poet, playwright, performing artist, and translator)
Robert Sember (Member of Ultra-red, Interdisciplinary Arts Faculty at Eugene Lang College)