“Balázs Varju Tóth’s work and research investigates modes of attention, what it means to concentrate, to focus-in on, and to stay with, and how this contributes to, or undoes, understanding. He is particularly fascinated with the question of agency in attention: what conditions do we need to stay focused, and what control do we have in actively perceiving as subjects whose perceptive apparatus and curiosity are entangled with the changing "world around us? And, is unintended falling away or distraction necessarily a bad thing?” Excerpt from an essay on Balázs Varju Tóth by Anik Fournier