I recently came across a description of a graduate seminar offered by Christina Bertoni at RISD called "Slow Gaze" that I LOVE. It begins with this great quote:
Some of the course description:
"What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn't merely sensational, that doesn't get its message across in ten seconds, that isn't falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures." Robert Hughes at the Royal Academy Annual Dinner, June 2004.
Some of the course description:
"[...] In an institutional environment the pace accelerates with rapid and constant accumulation of information, stimulation, deadlines, feedback, production and presentation. Technology provides an array of simultaneous sensory experiences. There are other models of creative practice, which engage the prolonged gaze, reduced motion, slow accumulation of perception and experience, single focus. The [...] Slow Art movement challenges the frenzied pace of life and experience in the 21st century and promotes an attention to detail, ritual of production, [and] the inclusion of pleasure..."