Dear All, Attention and Perception in XR A hybrid symposium King’s College London, 20-21 June 2024 The XR and Attention Research Group and the Centre for Attention Studies at King’s College London have the pleasure to invite you to a symposium on Attention and Perception in XR. (XR stands for Extended Reality, encompassing Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality – and different forms of AI used to design those realities). The symposium combines presentations, discussions, immersive project showcases and networking activities across two days. It brings together scholars and creatives to discuss the problem of attention and perception in XR, and explore what XR means for us at this present historical and technical moment. The symposium seeks to open up discussion into: • the physiological and socio-cultural mechanisms of making and shaping attention in and with XR • how we might use those mechanisms to make XR spaces more body-caring and human-centred, and how performing arts might inform the design of those spaces • how we might reshape the knowledge of cultural heritage and create new centres of attention across disciplinary boundaries. The event is hybrid (in-person and streamed online) and is free to attend, but registration is needed. For more information, please visit this page: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/centreforattentionstudies/1285267 Best wishes, Joanna -- Joanna Zylinska Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice Director (Interim) of the [1]Centre for Attention Studies King's College London Department of Digital Humanities NEW BOOK: [2]The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI (MIT Press, open access) NEW ARTICLE: [3]Diffused Seeing: The Epistemological Challenge of Generative AI (Media Theory, open access) [4]Website [5]IG research notebook References 1. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/centre-attention-studies 2. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546836/the-perception-machine/ 3. https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/1075... 4. http://www.joannazylinska.net/ 5. https://www.instagram.com/joanna.zylinska/