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
How can you reach the sky? For Salvador Dalí, just turn on your TV. That is, the Liquid and Gaseous Television: one of his inventions (1975) turning TV into a vehicle for cosmic voyages that allow man to communicate with the universe. Perhaps even with God. This device needs no wires. In it, communicative and transcendental horizons converge, updating the surrealist techniques of activating the...
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Mysticism
Dream
Unconscious mind
Sky
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