All aesthetic venues share a meta-attentional engagement structure

Evidence

At the level of individual attention, museums, cinemas, fictional narratives, classrooms and performance venues are characterized by the same structure of META-ATTENTIONAL ENGAGEMENT: the spectator’s attention is found to be plugged into the attentional experience of another more or less strongly subjectivized perception of the world, through which a certain reality is revisited. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 459

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘meta-attentional engagement’: one attention plugged into another’s perception of the world.
• XREF: connects to: Aesthetic experience succeeds or fails on attentional quality, not object traits — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 431; Aesthetic laboratories protect attention by suspending communicational pressures — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 454; Art can function as attention-holding architecture against distraction — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 58 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Art can function as attention-holding architecture against distraction #corroborates (0.85) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 58
• Great art creates attentional situations, not just artifacts #corroborates (0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 383
• Artworks function as training apparatuses for deliberately directing attention #corroborates (0.78) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 387
• Everyday moments of attention can be framed and shared as art experiences #exemplifies (0.75) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 372
• Attention creates a shared space beyond both instrumental logic and endless suspension #expands (0.75) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 75