Ambient commons: attention in the age of embodied information

In this work, McCullough explores the workings of attention though a rediscovery of surroundings.

Not all that informs has been written and sent; not all attention involves deliberate thought.

The intrinsic structure of space - the layout of a studio, for example, or a plaza - becomes part of any mental engagement with it.

McCullough describes what he calls the Ambient: an increasing tendency to perceive information superabundance whole, where individual signals matter less and at least some mediation assumes inhabitable form.