[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: reminder: Technology & the Home Area

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Rett Lorance <llorance at earthlink.net>

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: "Computing Technologies in the Home: Future
Opportunities and Challenges"; "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";
"Dysfunctional Household"; "Dymaxion Redux: Rem Koolhaas Cribs Bucky
Fuller"; "Happiness Minutes: Technology and the Psychology of the Home";
"TV Houses"; "Technology: A Social Placebo"; "Ties Home: Early Iron
Construction and Identity";"Showing Off: The Billiard Room in
Nineteenth-Century France"; 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 2006 conference is from October 27-29, 2006 at the Wyndham Hotel in
lovely Baltimore, MD. Registration fees apply. For more information,
please go to <http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/>.

Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2006

Send 1-page proposal,  CV & AV needs via snail mail to:

Rett Lorance
School of Visual Arts
P.O. Box 461
Inwood Station
New York, NY 10034-0461
USA



Rett Lorance
<llorance at earthlink.net>