Visible Sounds, Auditory Images, Haptic Broadcasting: A Para-Tele-Visual Imaginary in German Modernism
This essay examines the avant-garde televisual experiments of the ‘G Group’ in relation to the sociotechnical imagination of experimental television in German modernism. Inspired by the physiology of synaesthesia and the possibilities of the ‘electric eye’, or photocell, avant-garde artists working...
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| description | This essay examines the avant-garde televisual experiments of the ‘G Group’ in relation to the sociotechnical imagination of experimental television in German modernism. Inspired by the physiology of synaesthesia and the possibilities of the ‘electric eye’, or photocell, avant-garde artists working in multiple media experimented with frequencies outside the perceptible spectrum in their attempts to convert light into sound and vice versa. By shifting attention from ‘visual music’ to ‘optical media,’ this essay contributes to avant-garde studies, modernism studies, and media archaeology, especially recent scholarship connecting the pre- and post-history of national television broadcasting. The ‘para-tele-visual’ here complements senses of television as distant vision with that of haptic broadcasting and the creation of visible sounds and auditory images. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a5a00a553ef24d8dabd794801fd3daef2025-08-20T03:40:30ZengNetherlands Institute for Sound and VisionVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture2213-09692025-08-011427223810.18146/view.352329Visible Sounds, Auditory Images, Haptic Broadcasting: A Para-Tele-Visual Imaginary in German ModernismErik Born0https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7782-9700Cornell UniversityThis essay examines the avant-garde televisual experiments of the ‘G Group’ in relation to the sociotechnical imagination of experimental television in German modernism. Inspired by the physiology of synaesthesia and the possibilities of the ‘electric eye’, or photocell, avant-garde artists working in multiple media experimented with frequencies outside the perceptible spectrum in their attempts to convert light into sound and vice versa. By shifting attention from ‘visual music’ to ‘optical media,’ this essay contributes to avant-garde studies, modernism studies, and media archaeology, especially recent scholarship connecting the pre- and post-history of national television broadcasting. The ‘para-tele-visual’ here complements senses of television as distant vision with that of haptic broadcasting and the creation of visible sounds and auditory images.https://account.viewjournal.eu/index.php/up-j-viewjethc/article/view/352electrophysiologyg groupoptophoneparatelevisualsonificationsynaesthesiavisual music |
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| title | Visible Sounds, Auditory Images, Haptic Broadcasting: A Para-Tele-Visual Imaginary in German Modernism |
| title_full | Visible Sounds, Auditory Images, Haptic Broadcasting: A Para-Tele-Visual Imaginary in German Modernism |
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| title_short | Visible Sounds, Auditory Images, Haptic Broadcasting: A Para-Tele-Visual Imaginary in German Modernism |
| title_sort | visible sounds auditory images haptic broadcasting a para tele visual imaginary in german modernism |
| topic | electrophysiology g group optophone paratelevisual sonification synaesthesia visual music |
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