New Unities: Transatlantic Conversations in Art, Design, and Technology in Europe and America, 1890-1933

The turn of the twentieth century witnessed unequivocal changes in sociopolitical, economic, and cultural spheres across Europe and America. This panel focuses on the compelling intersection of technology with art, architecture, and design in the age of the machine. The central role played by technology in this era is unique, demonstrating unprecedented use of mechanized techniques and motifs in art and design via discursive and visual conversations, a range of responses to a world undergoing immense upheaval. In order to mirror this diversity of visual interpretation characteristic of the period, we encourage papers that critically approach these transatlantic conversations from interdisciplinary perspectives such as art history, material culture, architectural history, or social history. We welcome the views of historians as well as those of artists, architects, and designers to open the panel up to a truly interdisciplinary dialogue.

Papers may address (but are not limited to): Modernism and the machine, British/American Arts & Crafts, European Secessionism, the Bauhaus, the interplay/overlap of traditional craft and mass manufacture, worlds fairs, new vs. old materials, Revivalism. Amidst
the instability of the era and its influx of change and innovation, how were new stabilities—'new unities'—formed across art and design disciplines?

Session Co-Chairs: Christina Jurasek, Neue Galerie New York and Michelle Jackson, Neue Galerie New York. Contact:
christinajurasekneuegalerie.org.

Please use SECAC's online form and submit your abstract (maximum of 200 words) and CV no later than midnight EDT on April 20, 2014.
http://www.secollegeart.org/conference