Echoes and Frequencies: Tele-Visions and Wireless Technologies

This issue, titled ‘Echoes and Frequencies: Tele-Visions and Wireless Technologies’, investigates the layered temporalities, shifting modalities, and evolving infrastructures of tele-visions – a plural, hyphenated term designating the spectrum of remote viewing technologies that have shaped, and continually reshape, how images travel and appear across distances. From early optical telegraphs and nineteenth-century electromagnetic signal relays to today’s ubiquitous digital environments, these systems condition how we think about, imagine, and experience the televisual. Woven into the fabric of our societies, they evolve alongside, and often propel, scientific innovation, political change, and artistic experimentation – at once mirrors of their historical conditions and lenses onto the world they help configure.