I’m going to be at Princeton next week, doing a more academic-than-usual talk on contemplative computing and The Distraction Addiction.

I'm appearing there as part of the “Pay Attention: The Art of Here and Now” course, taught by director Marianne Weems.

The undergraduate course taught by Weems questions whether our sense of the present — to which we are meant to be attentive — has changed, and the impact of Twitter, Instagram and the “selfie” on making art. The course draws upon various perspectives with guest speakers, of which Pang is one, focusing on spirituality, neuroscience, ontology, psychology, and gaming to investigate these questions of modern consciousness.

The Princeton Atelier is an interesting project: started by Toni Morrison, it "brings together professional artists from different disciplines to create new work in the context of a semester-long course.”

I haven’t been in Princeton in ages, so it’ll be great to visit again.