Inquiry

Who decides what we look at, and what are their motivations? As our screens become increasingly singular and atomized, how might we resist this fragmentation in order to see systemically? How are our digital relationships tracked, commodified, and marketized by pervasive social media and content-sharing platforms? We ask these questions in order to reckon with the increasing challenges of information literacy, of fact-checking and mis- and dis-information, and of parsing and discerning multiple truths. We find possibilities in practices that modulate attention, invite interventions into data, reconfigure assumptions about participation, and explore the contours of spectatorship, sensing, and knowledge.