Space for attention: clues from the deep history of mankind
Our world today is characterised by a culture of attention. We need it to communicate our con-cerns, sell our products or distract from our activities. Artists, service and manufacturing indus-tries, teachers, politicians, influencers, scientists - they all try to attract our attention. In the digi-tal world, algorithms also come to our aid, but the basis lies in our biologically and culturally shaped sensory perception. How did the culture of attention beyond biological signals and simple gestures begin? What role do spatial arrangements and even architecture play? Are musical in-struments, ivory figurines and cave paintings simply beautiful art or do they have a deeper func-tion?
The contribution by prehistorian and palaeoanthropologist PD Dr Miriam Noël Haidle is dedicated to the development of attention culture in interaction with subsistence culture and cognition in the course of human evolution, the linking of spaces and communication through to the beginnings of auditory and visual culture/art as part of attention culture.
Note: Free places can also be filled spontaneously.
Our world today is characterised by a culture of attention. We need it to communicate our con-cerns, sell our products or distract from our activities. Artists, service and manufacturing indus-tries, teachers, politicians, influencers, scientists - they all try to attract our attention. In the digi-tal world, algorithms also come to our aid, but the basis lies in our biologically and culturally shaped sensory perception. How did the culture of attention beyond biological signals and simple gestures begin? What role do spatial arrangements and even architecture play? Are musical in-struments, ivory figurines and cave paintings simply beautiful art or do they have a deeper func-tion?
The contribution by prehistorian and palaeoanthropologist PD Dr Miriam Noël Haidle is dedicated to the development of attention culture in interaction with subsistence culture and cognition in the course of human evolution, the linking of spaces and communication through to the beginnings of auditory and visual culture/art as part of attention culture.
Note: Free places can also be filled spontaneously.
