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.”

The 2.0 version of the Digital Humanities manifesto, a collaborative project of the 2009 UCLA Mellon Seminar on the Digital Humanities, has now been released for commentary and debate.

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

How can knowledge, research, and pedagogical practice in the arts and humanities drive the design and development of emerging digital media (and vice versa)?

Just posted the following on the Metaverse U Conference website:

I am very happy to announce that the next Metaverse U Conference also will take place at Stanford University. We have booked a great that holds about 150 people so we are aiming for something more focused for this second iteration of the conference.

Please join us as we discuss liminal spaces, Afghan culture, the role of artists, and the future of South Asia:

Sunday, March 29, 2009 
3:00 pm film screening - 3:30 pm discussion

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Screening Room
701 Mission St @ 3rd
San Francisco, CA 94103

$7 General Admission

Organized by the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, the Stanford Humanities Lab and the Preserving Virtual Worlds project of the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information ResourcesPlay-Machinima-Law, is a two-day conference to be held at Stanford University on Friday and Saturday, April 24th-25th, 2009.

The How They Got Game Project at Stanford University is currently seeking papers that explore the connections between mapping, cartographic practices, and electronic gaming for an illustrated book that will be published in 2010. 

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism was published exactly one hundred years ago on the front page of the Parisian daily Le Figaro. It famously celebrated "the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.. feverish sleeplessness, the perilous leap, the slap and the punch" and proclaimed the beauty of

Another little nice snippet about our Life Squared  project being shown at the SF Moma. Linden Lab's VP Marketing & Community Development, Robin (Linden) Harper, shares her thoughts: