[ecrea] CfP: Archaeologies of Tele-Visions and -Realities

VIEW Journal Call for Papers
Archaeologies of Tele-Visions and -Realities:
Untold Histories and Forgotten Practices

Over the last decade the label “media archaeology” has brought together 
a growing number of heterogeneous scholarship investigating new forms of 
historical research and narratives. While the field resists a coherent 
methodology, media archaeological explorations are generally 
characterized by their refusal of linear periodization, an emphasis on 
disregarded objects and historical episodes, and a playful approach of 
media as hybrid, non-fixed, and unstable material, cultural, discursive 
and imaginary artifacts.

This issue of VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture 
invites archeological inquiries into the multiple pasts of tele-visions. 
Since late nineteenth century imaginations of “seeing by electricity”, 
the phenomenon of “seeing at a distance” has known multiple futures and 
pasts, deaths and revivals. The aim of this issue is to assess the many 
lives of television in its different technological stages 
(electro-mechanical, electrical, electronic and digital) and to 
highlight the complexity practices, programs and discourses that have 
shaped television as a technical infrastructure, political and social 
institution, cultural phenomenon and business model from both diachronic 
and synchronic perspectives.

The theme of the 7th issue of VIEW (Vol. 4, spring 2015) seeks to shine 
a light on the multiple histories of television and welcomes 
contributions that propose archeological excavations from different 
disciplinary and thematic points of view.

Proposals are invited on (but not limited to):

    Object biographies and hybrid technologies: description of obsolete 
or forgotten technologies and/or apparatuses; hybridity of emerging 
audio/visual technologies;
    Archaeology of TV spectatorship: problematizing historical 
audiences of television beyond domestic consumption;
    Politics of television: gendering TV before its integration of 
domestic space; archeology of television’s military uses; shaping 
television as a consumer object;
    Questioning televisual paradigms: liveness, simultaneity, ubiquity, 
participation, etc.
    Symbolic engineering: imagined and configured uses in both 
fictional and factional sources
    Archaeology of televisual programs and formats: intermedial links 
of early televisual texts;
    Experimental media archaeology: reenactments and reconstitutions of 
television technologies and practices;
    Non-conformist histories of tv: histories of guerilla TV, 
non-profit and educational television.
    Archaeology of digital television: histories of televisual 
participation and interactivity;

Practical

Contributions are encouraged from authors with different expertise and 
interests in television and media history.

Paper proposals (max. 500 words) are due on November 30th, 2014. 
Submissions should be sent to the managing editor of the journal, Dana 
Mustata ((journal /at/ euscreen.eu)). A notice of acceptance will be send to 
authors on third week of December. Articles (2-4,000 words) will be due 
on March 1st, 2015.

For further information or questions about the issue, please contact the 
co-editors: Andreas Fickers ((andreas.fickers /at/ uni.lu)) and Anne-Katrin 
Weber ((anne-katrin.weber /at/ unil.ch))

See www.viewjournal.eu for the current and back issues. VIEW is proud to 
be an open access journal. All articles are made findable through the 
DOAJ and EBSCO databases.

Kind regards,

Erwin Verbruggen
Project lead R&D

T +31 35 677 16 91
Skype: erwinverbruggen

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE  Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB  
Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl



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