CALL FOR PAPERS: 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
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