Bit OT, but the library has a huge role in technology in the home.
CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE 6-15-04: Technology and the Home Sessions, a permanent area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Annual Conference. Technology and the Home seeks papers that explore various interactions between the technology and the domestic environment. The discussion may focus on real or imagined or speculative homes and technology. There is no limit on the time frame nor upon the methodology.
Previous papers include: “Wired Houses”; “Technical Innovation and Domestic Display in Late Republican Rome”; “‘Humor’ in Home Technology”; “The Yeoman Oven Mitt”; “Burn, Baby Burn (Kitchen Inferno): New Images of Domesticity in Contemporary Art”: “The Air-Conditioned Life”; “The Most Expensive Popcorn Popper: A History of the Microwave Oven”: “Happiness Minutes: Technology and the Psychology of the Home”; “TV Houses”; “Technology: A Social Placebo”; and “Tools for the Making of a Happy Home”.
Appropriate topics include but are not limited to: appliances, automobiles, building materials, communications, computers, construction, entertaining, flooring, furniture, health, hearth, hvac systems, insulation, kitchens, laundries, lighting, mobility, pets, preservation, recreation, sanitation, security, television, and wall/window/floor treatments.
The 2004 conference is from November 5-7 in beautiful Buffalo, NY. Registration fees apply. For more information, please go to http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/.
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2004
Send 1-page proposal, CV & AV needs via snail mail to:
Loretta Lorance
School of Visual Arts
P.O. Box 461
Inwood Station
New York, NY 10034-046161
Loretta Lorance
llorance@earthlink.net
