Vigils and Vigilance

Subtitled ‘Attention, Duration, Subjectivity’, Vigils and Vigilance was a panel discussion with artists and researchers working on problems of sustained attention.

Departing from the pioneering research of Norman H. Mackworth, whose discovery of the ‘vigilance decrement’ marked the origins of Cold War investigations into durational visual experience, the session featured presentations by art historian Joanna Fiduccia (Yale), anthropologist and artist Hermione Spriggs (UCL/Slade), and artist/researcher K MacBride (University of the Arts, London). The discussion was moderated by D. Graham Burnett.

Supported by Glasgow International