Salvador Dalí’s Liquid and Gaseous Television a Mystical and Wireless Dream
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture August 7, 2025 DOI: 10.18146/view.342 (opens in new tab) via OpenAlex
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractSalvador 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.
Study at a glance
| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Mysticism |
| Keywords | Dream Unconscious mind Sky Mediation |
| Key finding | Argues that Dalí's Liquid and Gaseous Television reconfigures television as a wireless device for cosmic, spiritual communication, overturning passive viewing into an ecstatic experience. |
Abstract
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 unconscious into a new formula aimed at overturning coercive television narcosis into a liberating mystical-cognitive three-dimensional ecstasy. Dalí’s wireless TV is a mechanism of mediation between reality and spirituality, discontinuity and reconfiguration, man and the sky. A dream or a model that embodies the future of television.