Television before TV. New Media and Exhibition Culture in Europe and the USA, 1928-1939
Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium’s numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and international exhibitions in the late 1920s and 1930s. Building upon extensive archival research in Britain, Germany, and the United States,
www.dronetv.lu
a website on useful television Dronetv.lu is a plurilingual platform on the history of military, industrial and educational television. Through contributions in different formats (text, audio, video, photography), it seeks to excavate the applications and uses of television outside the home.
Operative TV: Closed Circuit Images from World War II to the Cold War
Television’s history has predominantly been told from the perspective of its broadcasting institutions and domestic practices; the major bulk of television scholarship traces the story of a mass media and its audience. Doing so, it neglects a parallel regime of
Au-delà du service public. Pour une histoire élargie de la télévision en Suisse, 1960-2000
Au-delà du service public: pour une histoire élargie de la télévision en Suisse, 1960 à 2000 est un projet de recherche de trois ans soutenu par le Fonds national suisse pour la recherche scientifique dirigée par François Vallotton, professeur d’histoire contemporaine
Le Syndic, la vache et le verre de blanc. Un siècle de Comptoir suisse à Lausanne
Exposition participative du 14 au 29 septembre 2019 Place de l’Europe, Lausanne www.unsiecledecomptoir.ch Projet de communication scientifique d’une durée de 12 mois soutenu par le programme Agora du Fonds national suisse de la recherche, Le Syndic, la vache et
A Media Archaeology of Drones: Television in the Army, 1930s-1940s
My postdoctoral research project, titled A Media Archaeology of Drones: Television in the Army, 1930s-1940s, aims at unearthing the military uses of television during World War II and at resituating the developed devices and implied actors within the media’s broader