Three years in the making, Speed Limits was inaugurated at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal on May 19. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-FIU in Miami, addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement and is curated by SHL's founder Jeffrey T. Schnapp who worked with the noted Los Angeles-based architect Michael Maltzan on the exhibition's design. The show contains an installation of video game captures coordinated by SHL's own Matteo Bittanti and will be integrated in a longer term Sirikata-based initiative also involving SHL's partner, the Bornholms Kunstmuseum. 

The show runs through October 12 at the CCA. It will reopen in the fall of 2010 in Miami.

Of the show, Montreal's leading daily newspaper, Le Devoir wrote: "Le commissaire de l'exposition, l'Américain Jeffrey T. Schnapp, professeur de littérature et penseur éclectique, aidé de concepteurs hors pair, a produit une exposition vivante, originale, bourrée d'audaces et franchement passionante." (May 21, 2009).