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# Project Description Am I Still Paying Attention? Benjamin Schonken Summary Final work Benjamin Schonken (he/him) is a moving image scholar and filmmaker. He doesn't have a Scottish accent, spends too much of his time inside, and would like to apologise to his friends and family for never replying to their texts. Benjamin Schonken (he/him) is a moving image scholar and filmmaker. He doesn't have a Scott... College Central Saint Martins Course MRes Art: Moving Image Graduation year 2025 My research is entitled Am I Still Paying Attention? Overlapping Media Consumption in the Post-Internet Age, and combines methods of autoethnography with practice to explore how audiences consume media simultaneously and sporadically. I aim to deconstruct the myth of normative attention in both academia and film-watching, and explore how technology has affected the perceived artistic value, exhibition and popularity of various cultural objects. Since starting my dissertation last October, I have downloaded every film, Instagram post, song and TikTok that I have seen or liked. My final film installation presents this digital archive using over 800 synchronous screen-segments - alongside screen recordings and audio transcripts of my own writing - to literally overlap my work with that which distracted me while researching it. Final work AM I STILL PAYING ATTENTION? 15 minutes, 2:1, Colour with sound. Share this project My research is entitled Am I Still Paying Attention? Overlapping Media Consumption in the Post-Internet Age, and combines methods of autoethnography with practice to explore how audiences consume media simultaneously and sporadically. I aim to deconstruct the myth of normative... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard
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