Under the head line Taking the Time to Study Speed the Stanford site has a good little piece up on our Speed Limits project:

“Life in the fast lane” is a contemporary phrase we often use to describe exciting, action-packed events in our lives, but just what is the human obsession with speed?  Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford professor of Italian and of Comparative Literature, explores this very question in an exhibit titled, Speed Limits, at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA).

Not coincidentally, Speed Limits, an exploration of speed and its evolution is taking place during the one-hundredth anniversary of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s foundation of the Italian Futurist movement. Futurism dismissed the past and its old political and artistic traditions, admiring among other things, speed, industry, and technology’s conquest of nature.  As its founder, Marinetti stated in his Manifesto of Futurism, “The world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.”

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 t

Wired magazine has a nice little bit called Art of Participation Connects Viewers, Artists. This is written about our Life Squared project currently on display at SFMOMA:

A $1 million project financed by the autonomous region of the Trentino-Alto Adige during the summer of 2008, the Memory Tunnels are a collaborative project between the Stanford Humanities Lab, Filmwork (Trento), and Studio Terragni (Como and New York), developed with the support of the Fondazione Museo Storico di Trento.

 SHL is collaborating with The Tech Museum of Innovation to organize an exhibition - provisionally titled 'The Creative Engines of the Silicon Valley' - focusing on creativity as exemplified by the entertainment industries in this Californian region. This will be a contribution to the Tech Museum’s “The Spirit of Silicon Valley” gallery renewal series.

SPEED limits is a mixed reality exhibition project concerned with themes of speed and slowness in modern culture that will: a) pioneer a participatory approach to museum-based informal learning, targeted at youth, with the aim of transforming infrequent museum-goers into active content producers and curators; and b) contribute to the implementation and launch of a new virtual world platform.

CROWDS II is the continuation of a large-scale collaborative research project initiated in 2000 dedicated to examining the importance of multitudes in the modern era. The project's first cycle was completed in 2005 and involved: