VIEW – Journal of European Television History and Culture
Launch Event — Echoes and Frequencies: Tele-Visions and Wireless Technologies, 19th–21st Centuries

We are pleased to invite you to the online launch event for the latest issue of VIEW – Journal of European Television History and Culture!
The new issue, “Echoes and Frequencies: Tele-Visions and Wireless Technologies, 19th–21st Centuries” (Volume 14, Issue 27, 2025), investigates the layered temporalities, shifting modalities, and evolving infrastructures of tele-visions – a plural, hyphenated term designating the spectrum of remote viewing technologies that have shaped, and continually reshape, how images travel and appear across distances.
📅 Date: November 18, 2025, 18:15–20:00 (CEST), Online
📍 Join us online – via Zoom
Zoom link: https://pantheonsorbonne.zoom.us/j/97397387247?pwd=E9enffbSD64f5ATm2FEwcClBMGz0b7.1
The programme will feature a collective presentation of the issue by the editorial team, followed by short interventions from the contributing authors, who will discuss key ideas from their articles. The session will also include an open discussion and an online screening of Matt Parker’s film Do Sheep Dream of Electric Ruins? , presented as part of the launch.
This issue examines the long arc of tele-visual experimentation, from early optical telegraphs and nineteenth-century electromagnetic signal relays to today’s ubiquitous digital environments. One element emerges as a particularly fruitful entry point into the archaeology of tele-visions: the wireless. In many ways, the integration of Hertzian waves into telecommunications at the close of the nineteenth century marked an epistemic shift – a profound reordering of the technical, perceptual, and conceptual frameworks through which reality is organised and understood. The contributions gathered in this issue explore the historical, technical, and artistic dimensions of that transformation, which, beyond the mere absence of cables, ushered in a new media paradigm whose political, philosophical, and environmental ramifications continue to be redefined with each successive wave of wireless innovation.
Authors : Erik Born, Anna Luigia De Simone, Simone Dotto, Lori Emerson, Nicolas Holt, Lila Lee-Morrison, Matt Parker, Mikhel Proulx, Peppino Ortoleva, Nina Wexelblatt.
Edited by: Léa Dreyer, Evgenii Kozlov, Pierre J. Pernuit, Clara M. Royer & Anne-Katrin Weber.
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