Salvador Dalí’s Liquid and Gaseous Television a Mystical and Wireless Dream
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture August 7, 2025 Anna Luigia de Simone
Salvador Dalí's 1975 invention, the Liquid and Gaseous Television, reimagines television as a wireless device for cosmic voyages, enabling communication with the universe and possibly God. This concept merges surrealist techniques for activating the unconscious with a new formula to transform passive television watching into a liberating, mystical-cognitive three-dimensional ecstasy. Dalí's wireless TV serves as a mediation mechanism between reality and spirituality, discontinuity and reconfiguration, and humanity and the sky, embodying either a dream or a model for the future of television.