[spectre] CONF: Tele Visions: Technologies of Ubiquity in the Visual Arts, 19th-21st centuries (Paris, 3-4 Oct 23)

Sun Aug 6 12:33:10 CEST 2023

From: Pierre-Jacques Pernuit
Date: Jul 31, 2023
Subject: CONF: Tele→ Visions: Technologies of Ubiquity in the Visual 
Arts, 19th-21st centuries (Paris, 3-4 Oct 23)

Paris, France, Oct 3–04, 2023

Tele→ Visions: Technologies of Ubiquity in the Visual Arts, 19th-21st 
centuries (Paris, 3–4 Oct 23).

This event is convened by the research group IMAGO-Cultures Visuelles 
(Dr. Pascal Rousseau, Professor of Contemporary Art History, Dr. 
Pierre-Jacques Pernuit, and Ph.D. candidates Léa Dreyer, Evgenii Kozlof 
and Clara M. Royer) from the Centre de recherche Histoire Culturelle et 
Sociale de l’Art (HiCSA), with its generous support as well as that of 
the École Doctorale 441 d’Histoire de l’art, the Collège des écoles 
doctorales de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Laboratoire 
International de Recherches en Art (LIRA EA7343, Université Paris 3 
Sorbonne Nouvelle).

The international symposium Télé—Visions brings together a body of 
recent work on the influence of emission, transmission and reception 
technologies in the visual arts and visual culture, from the 19th 
century to the present. Beyond the medium of television itself, the 
plural “tele-visions” refers to the variety of remote viewing and image 
transmission techniques which, from semaphores to wireless telegraphy 
and up to fiber optics and contemporary networks, have configured new 
models for the circulation and transmission of images. Dialoguing with 
the history of science and technology as well as with media archaeology, 
the contributors to the conference will explore broad topics such as the 
joint evolution of perceptual regimes and remote transmission 
techniques, the modalities of “prosthetic vision,” the material effects 
of image transmission and the spatio-temporal issues inherent to network 
dynamics.

This conference takes as its core hypothesis that the “conquest of 
ubiquity” by the transport of images at any time and in any place 
described by Paul Valéry in 1928 anticipated the contemporary society of 
globalized exchanges and, as such, marks a turning point in the history 
of art. The association IMAGO—Cultures Visuelles proposes to study this 
turning point, placing it within the historical panorama of the great 
artistic changes brought about by technology, in the spirit of the 
importance respectively given to reproduction and storage technologies 
by Walter Benjamin and Friedrich A. Kittler. Recent research in media 
studies shows a growing interest in visual telecommunication 
technologies through such key concepts of “circulation,” “flow” and 
“network.” Télé—Visions proposes to broaden the scope of this new 
conceptual understanding of images by exploring the social factors, 
cultural strategies and technical-aesthetic concerns that have shaped 
the history of transmitted images and the artistic use of 
telecommunications.

This event is free and open to the public without reservation. The 
conference will be live-streamed via zoom. It will be held in French and 
English.

Venue: Auditorium Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Institut national d’histoire 
de l’art (INHA), 2 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris, France.

Program  TUESDAY, October 3
  2 p.m. Introduction
2:15 pm Pascal Rousseau (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), 
Psychométrie. La fantaisie de la rétrovision
2:45 pm André Lange (histv.net), L’invention littéraire de la vision à 
distance
  3:15 pm Coffee break
  3:30 pm Evgenii Kozlov (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), 
Carrying the Sign into the Distance: Aerial Telegraphy, or 
Writing/Reading Images in the Landscape
4:00 pm Doron Galili (University of Gothenburg/Stockholm University), 
Recording and Transmitting Electrical Images in the Fin-de-siecle
  4:30 pm Coffee break
  4:45 pm Antonio Somaini (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle), Transparency, 
Dissolution, Wireless Transmission: László Moholy-Nagy’s 
Dematerialization of Technical Media
5:15 pm Pierre-Jacques Pernuit (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), 
Distant Lights: Avant-garde TV Experiments in the Interwar  WEDNESDAY, 
October 4
  9:30 am Gillian Young (Wofford College), Archaeologies of Telepresence 
in the Early Work of Joan Jonas
10:00 am Léa Dreyer (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), “Some 
Circumstances that Separate Us”: Implicit Sonicity in Lars Fredrikson’s 
Fax Art
10:30 am Beatriz Escribano Belmar (Universidad de Salamanca), 
Reproduction, Transmission, and Distance: Revealing the Aesthetics of 
Poor Images in Artistic Fax Exchanges
  11:00 am Coffee break
  11:15 am Francesco Spampinato (Università di Bologna), Access to 
Tools: Guerrilla Television, Media Art and the late 1960s Counterculture
11:45 am Jean-Paul Fourmentraux (Aix-Marseille Université), 
SOUSVEILLANCE: L’œil du contre-pouvoir
  12:15 am Lunch break
  2:00 pm Anne-Katrin Weber (UNIL Lausanne), Televisual Mission Control, 
ca.1969
2:30 pm Brooke Belisle (Stony Brook University), Mediating the Moon: 
Imaging as Observation and Simulation
  3:00 pm Coffee break

3:15 pm Clara M. Royer (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), 
Communicationsphere: Sarah Dickinson and Aldo Tambellini’s geopolitics 
of telepresence
3:45 pm Kris Paulsen (Ohio State University), Martian Time Slips: 
Telepresent Views of a Future Mars

4:15 pm Discussion and closing remarks.
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Contact: imago.tele.visions at gmail.com
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Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: Tele→ Visions: Technologies of Ubiquity in the Visual Arts, 
19th-21st centuries (Paris, 3–4 Oct 23). In: ArtHist.net, Jul 31, 2023. 
<https://arthist.net/archive/39938>.

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