Resumen de Seizing attention: devices and desires
Whatever else early modern technological devices did, they artfuly vied for our undivided attention. Mirrors, cameras obscura, microscpes, telescopes, Claude glasses, kaleidoscopes, clockwork automata as well as the optical telegraph and the pinhole camera, perceptually and cognitively focused our selective attention. This coda prompts us to ask what such diverse devices can teach us about the hard-wired and culturally modified operations of human attention -in both the past and the present. It argues for the deep interfusion of historical studies with contemporary art and technology research initiatives, in order to make a serious start on defining higher-order image investigations that take into account the basis of all cognitive activity.
