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.visi...@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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