Pause and Rewind: Forgotten Histories of Television

The cover photo of this special issue on forgotten histories of television shows a group of fifteen television sets demonstrating in the hallway of The Bank, which back then, in June 1980, was a video arts centre in the Amsterdam Haarlemmerstraat.The demonstration was part of the "World's First TV Convention," bringing together 250 television sets to discuss "urgent matters."Some of these television sets could communicate with each other through a satellite connection.Obviously, this was not