Summary: Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin, presents Speeding Toward Stasis: Rethinking the Paradox of Streamlining. Speaking as a cultural historian, Meikle identifies an ambiguity at the centre of streamlining, where the design style offered both a euphoric celebration of speed and an antidote to its frightening pace. With an introduction by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. Speed and its Limits explores 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. A colloquium organised by the CCA in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab. Featured speakers include: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Lab Pierre Merlin, Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin Robert Levine, California State University Tamar Zinguer, The Cooper Union Stephen Kern, Ohio State University Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College Guy Nordenson, Princeton University and Guy Nordenson & Associates From 20 May to 12 October 2009, the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, presents Speed Limits. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed "that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed." Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 21 June 2008
