Since 2023, this seminar has continued the Tele-Visions program’s exploration of the transformative impact of remote vision technologies in art history and visual culture at large. Held monthly—either via Zoom or in person at the Institut National d’Histoire—these sessions bring together a vibrant community of art historians, media scholars, artists, critics, and curators. Together, we examine how visual technologies from the 19th century to the present have shaped our understanding of art and perception across distances.
The TELE-VISION project is supported by the Sorb’Rising program of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
We are thrilled to share the 2025-2026 program of IMAGO-Cultures Visuelles research seminar on Télé-Visions!
November 18, 2025, 18h15–20h, online
Launch event for the latest issue of VIEW – Journal of European Television History and Culture: “Echoes and Frequencies: Tele-Visions and Wireless Technologies, 19th–21st Centuries.”
December 16, 2025, 18h30–20h, salle Vasari, INHA and online
Kathrin Maurer (University of Southern Denmark) — The Sensorium of the Drone: Rethinking Aerial Perception of the Earth beyond the Scopic Regime
January 6, 2026, 18h–20h, Auditorium Jacqueline Lichtenstein, INHA
Annie Abrahams and Alice Lenay (Université Paris 8) — Nous faire réfléchir à ce qui nous réfléchit (talk and performance)
January 27, 2026, 18h30–20h, online
Nina Wexelblatt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) — Tomorrow’s Problems: Remote Control Art and Labor at Automation House (1970–1972)
February 24, 2026, 18h15–20h, salle Walter Benjamin, INHA and online
Emma Canali (Sorbonne Université–University of Siena) — Televisual Proliferation: Displaying Multiple Temporalities in the French Video Art Festivals of the Early Eighties
Stefanie Bräuer (Hochschule Luzern ; Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel) — Screens Unbound: Media and Net Art Entering Swiss Video Festivals in Lucerne and Basel in the 1990s
March 31, 2026, 18h30–20h, online
Erica Levin (Ohio State University) — Restless Media: Mobile Live Streaming as Atmosphere in Tiffany Sia’s Never Rest/Unrest
May 5, 2026, 18h30–20h, salle Jullian, INHA and online
Lindsay Caplan (Brown University) — Video Installation between Cybernetics and Psychoanalysis

