Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Arts, Media, Philosophy OverviewResearch UnitsPublicationsProjects & CollaborationsProjects & Collaborations OverviewResearch UnitsPublicationsProjects & CollaborationsProjects & Collaborations All types All types Projects [All projects]Umbrella ProjectResearch Project Institutional Research Networks [Institutional Research Networks]Research Networks of the University of BaselResearch Networks (Institutional Membership) Show only active 10 foundShow per page10 10 20 50 Fossilienmusik Research Project | 2 Project MembersImported from Grants Tool 4708919 Assisted Thinking. A Deep History of Scholarly Artificial Intelligence Research Project | 1 Project MembersImported from Grants Tool 4708183 Bureaugraphies. Administration After the Age of Bureaucracy Research Project | 1 Project MembersImported from Grants Tool 4695737 Die Nachtseite der Musik: Ansätze zu einer neuen Historiographie des Musizierens in Europa, 1500-1800 Research Project | 1 Project MembersNo Description available Transferts des savoirs et création d'autorité : La diffusion européenne des ouvrages de Jean Versoris (ca. 1440-1500). Research Project | 1 Project MembersNo Description available Die zeitgenössische Wirkungsgeschichte von Richard Wagners "Das Judenthum in der Musik" Research Project | 1 Project MembersImported from Grants Tool 4649855 Just Parenthood: The Ethics and Politics of Childrearing in the 21st Century Research Project | 1 Project MembersNo Description available Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s Research Project | 1 Project MembersFrom video surveillance to online teaching, from drone warfare, highway management to telemedicine: closed-circuit images take up multiple spaces today. Despite being quotidian, their history remains largely unknown. Operative TV's goal is to fill this gap by providing the first ever study of audiovisual closed-circuits in the longue durée. It scrutinizes the closed-circuits' diversity between the 1930s and the 1990s and develops case studies from the USA, France, the UK, Germany, and Switzerland - countries crucial for the development of closed-circuits and providing access to resources for writing the history of a medium whose images were conceived as instruments rather than representations.Distributed under Industrial Television and CCTV (for closed-circuit television), the systems were developed in Europe and the USA mainly by enterprises active in televisual R&D (i.e., RCA, Grundig, and many more). In their most basic organization, they connected a camera with a monitor by cable; more sophisticated designs allowed for the video recording of content or bi-directional conversation. While CCTV today stands as a synonym of the surveillance camera, its historical applications were at least as heterogeneous as contemporary closed-circuits and used on factory floors and in nuclear plants, in hospitals and schools. In this study, subproject (SP) 2 focuses on surveillance operations. However, Operative TV also emphasizes televisual practices beyond the surveillance framework and the closed-circuit's embeddedness in multiple institutional spaces. In lieu of using a narrow definition of what I call audiovisual closed-circuits (AVCC), I comprehend AVCC as a flexible and pluriform system: its applicability beyond the surveillance camera paradoxically stems from its closed design. Drawing upon multinational archival research, Operative TV examines two main hypotheses. First, it posits that the analysis of television in industrial, educational, and military contexts cannot be based on habitual analytical categories such as texts or spectators. Instead, AVCC necessitates a methodological shift towards an understanding of audiovisual production as a chain of operations that allows analyzing the entanglement of human and non-human actors. AVCC's usefulness indeed was contingent on the interplay of heterogeneous elements including operators, screens, infrastructures, and images: their interdependence, rather than the isolated components, should form the core of a historical enquiry. Second, Operative TV argues that the history of AVCC, an analog-electronic technology, nourishes a media archaeology of the digital. AVCC emerged at the same moment as digital computers; it coexisted and sometimes converged with digital machines. Before the computer definitively took over factory and office floors, television was used as a tool for operations ranging from targeting to instructing: analyzing AVCC's alleged "universality" (Journal d'Yverdon 1955) allows to better understand the emergence of our digital society. To discuss these two hypotheses, the project introduces an original framework drawing upon recent media theory, and looks more specifically at four operations performed by AVCC (SP 1 to 4). In addition to the operation of surveilling (SP 2), targeting (SP 1) was a central - and first - function of closed-circuits from the 1930s on; automating the workplace and instructing students (SP 3 & 4) were other tasks performed by AVCC in the postwar years. Sustained by complex human-machines ecologies, these operations would rapidly be executed by digital computers: before their digitization, they were the realm of analog TV. Die zeitgenössische Wirkungsgeschichte von Richard Wagners "Das Judenthum in der Musik". Dokumentation und Debatte Research Project | 1 Project MembersNo Description available Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe Research Project | 5 Project MembersDie Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe (AWG) ist eine historisch-kritische Edition, die das gesamte kompositorische Schaffen Anton Weberns der Öffentlichkeit in wissenschafltich angemessener und der musikalischen Praxis dienender Form zugänglich machen will. Die Edition beinhaltet nicht nur die von Webern selbst zum Druck beförderten Werke, sondern auch deren unpublizierte Fassungen, zu Lebzeiten unveröffentlichte Kompositionen, Jugend- und Studienkompositionen sowie Fragmente, Skizzen und Bearbeitungen. Die AWG entsteht am Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminar der Universität Basel in enger inhaltlicher Zusammenarbeit mit der Paul Sacher Stiftung Basel , wo der grösste Teil der überlieferten Webern-Quellen aufbewahrt wird. Seit Oktober 2006 wird die Gesamtausgabe vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds und seit 2019 von der Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften gefördert. Ausserdem wurde in einer Kooperation mit der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften ab 2008 eine Wiener Arbeitsstelle eingerichtet, die Dokumente zur Werkgeschichte, Rezeption und zum historischen Kontext recherchiert. Diese Zusammenarbeit wurde durch Fördermittel der Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung ausgebaut. Erscheinen wird die AWG in einer Print-/Online-Hybrid-Edition , deren gedruckte Bände bei der Universal Edition, Wien publiziert und deren online zugängliche Bestandteile auf der Plattform Knora/SALSAH des Digital Humanities Lab der Universität Basel präsentiert werden. Die AWG versteht sich als Kompetenzzentrum, in dem neben den editorischen auch archivarische, dokumentarische, analytisch-forschende, kommunizierende, dienstleistende und organisatorische Aktivitäten vernetzt werden. So wurden neben den editorsichen Tätigkeiten mehrere Tagungen organisiert (Der junge Webern, 2012; webern@segantini, 2014) und eine Schriftenreihe gegründet ( Webern-Studien ), die der Webern-Forschung insgesamt ein Forum bieten möchte, in der aber auch begleitende Materialien zur Gesamtausgabe publiziert werden können. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Projekt-Website . 1 1 OverviewResearch UnitsPublicationsProjects & Collaborations
Projects & Collaborations All types All types Projects [All projects]Umbrella ProjectResearch Project Institutional Research Networks [Institutional Research Networks]Research Networks of the University of BaselResearch Networks (Institutional Membership) Show only active 10 foundShow per page10 10 20 50 Fossilienmusik Research Project | 2 Project MembersImported from Grants Tool 4708919 Assisted Thinking. A Deep History of Scholarly Artificial Intelligence Research Project | 1 Project MembersImported from Grants Tool 4708183 Bureaugraphies. Administration After the Age of Bureaucracy Research Project | 1 Project MembersImported from Grants Tool 4695737 Die Nachtseite der Musik: Ansätze zu einer neuen Historiographie des Musizierens in Europa, 1500-1800 Research Project | 1 Project MembersNo Description available Transferts des savoirs et création d'autorité : La diffusion européenne des ouvrages de Jean Versoris (ca. 1440-1500). Research Project | 1 Project MembersNo Description available Die zeitgenössische Wirkungsgeschichte von Richard Wagners "Das Judenthum in der Musik" Research Project | 1 Project MembersImported from Grants Tool 4649855 Just Parenthood: The Ethics and Politics of Childrearing in the 21st Century Research Project | 1 Project MembersNo Description available Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s Research Project | 1 Project MembersFrom video surveillance to online teaching, from drone warfare, highway management to telemedicine: closed-circuit images take up multiple spaces today. Despite being quotidian, their history remains largely unknown. Operative TV's goal is to fill this gap by providing the first ever study of audiovisual closed-circuits in the longue durée. It scrutinizes the closed-circuits' diversity between the 1930s and the 1990s and develops case studies from the USA, France, the UK, Germany, and Switzerland - countries crucial for the development of closed-circuits and providing access to resources for writing the history of a medium whose images were conceived as instruments rather than representations.Distributed under Industrial Television and CCTV (for closed-circuit television), the systems were developed in Europe and the USA mainly by enterprises active in televisual R&D (i.e., RCA, Grundig, and many more). In their most basic organization, they connected a camera with a monitor by cable; more sophisticated designs allowed for the video recording of content or bi-directional conversation. While CCTV today stands as a synonym of the surveillance camera, its historical applications were at least as heterogeneous as contemporary closed-circuits and used on factory floors and in nuclear plants, in hospitals and schools. In this study, subproject (SP) 2 focuses on surveillance operations. However, Operative TV also emphasizes televisual practices beyond the surveillance framework and the closed-circuit's embeddedness in multiple institutional spaces. In lieu of using a narrow definition of what I call audiovisual closed-circuits (AVCC), I comprehend AVCC as a flexible and pluriform system: its applicability beyond the surveillance camera paradoxically stems from its closed design. Drawing upon multinational archival research, Operative TV examines two main hypotheses. First, it posits that the analysis of television in industrial, educational, and military contexts cannot be based on habitual analytical categories such as texts or spectators. Instead, AVCC necessitates a methodological shift towards an understanding of audiovisual production as a chain of operations that allows analyzing the entanglement of human and non-human actors. AVCC's usefulness indeed was contingent on the interplay of heterogeneous elements including operators, screens, infrastructures, and images: their interdependence, rather than the isolated components, should form the core of a historical enquiry. Second, Operative TV argues that the history of AVCC, an analog-electronic technology, nourishes a media archaeology of the digital. AVCC emerged at the same moment as digital computers; it coexisted and sometimes converged with digital machines. Before the computer definitively took over factory and office floors, television was used as a tool for operations ranging from targeting to instructing: analyzing AVCC's alleged "universality" (Journal d'Yverdon 1955) allows to better understand the emergence of our digital society. To discuss these two hypotheses, the project introduces an original framework drawing upon recent media theory, and looks more specifically at four operations performed by AVCC (SP 1 to 4). In addition to the operation of surveilling (SP 2), targeting (SP 1) was a central - and first - function of closed-circuits from the 1930s on; automating the workplace and instructing students (SP 3 & 4) were other tasks performed by AVCC in the postwar years. Sustained by complex human-machines ecologies, these operations would rapidly be executed by digital computers: before their digitization, they were the realm of analog TV. Die zeitgenössische Wirkungsgeschichte von Richard Wagners "Das Judenthum in der Musik". Dokumentation und Debatte Research Project | 1 Project MembersNo Description available Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe Research Project | 5 Project MembersDie Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe (AWG) ist eine historisch-kritische Edition, die das gesamte kompositorische Schaffen Anton Weberns der Öffentlichkeit in wissenschafltich angemessener und der musikalischen Praxis dienender Form zugänglich machen will. Die Edition beinhaltet nicht nur die von Webern selbst zum Druck beförderten Werke, sondern auch deren unpublizierte Fassungen, zu Lebzeiten unveröffentlichte Kompositionen, Jugend- und Studienkompositionen sowie Fragmente, Skizzen und Bearbeitungen. Die AWG entsteht am Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminar der Universität Basel in enger inhaltlicher Zusammenarbeit mit der Paul Sacher Stiftung Basel , wo der grösste Teil der überlieferten Webern-Quellen aufbewahrt wird. Seit Oktober 2006 wird die Gesamtausgabe vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds und seit 2019 von der Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften gefördert. Ausserdem wurde in einer Kooperation mit der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften ab 2008 eine Wiener Arbeitsstelle eingerichtet, die Dokumente zur Werkgeschichte, Rezeption und zum historischen Kontext recherchiert. Diese Zusammenarbeit wurde durch Fördermittel der Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung ausgebaut. Erscheinen wird die AWG in einer Print-/Online-Hybrid-Edition , deren gedruckte Bände bei der Universal Edition, Wien publiziert und deren online zugängliche Bestandteile auf der Plattform Knora/SALSAH des Digital Humanities Lab der Universität Basel präsentiert werden. Die AWG versteht sich als Kompetenzzentrum, in dem neben den editorischen auch archivarische, dokumentarische, analytisch-forschende, kommunizierende, dienstleistende und organisatorische Aktivitäten vernetzt werden. So wurden neben den editorsichen Tätigkeiten mehrere Tagungen organisiert (Der junge Webern, 2012; webern@segantini, 2014) und eine Schriftenreihe gegründet ( Webern-Studien ), die der Webern-Forschung insgesamt ein Forum bieten möchte, in der aber auch begleitende Materialien zur Gesamtausgabe publiziert werden können. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Projekt-Website . 1 1
Assisted Thinking. A Deep History of Scholarly Artificial Intelligence Research Project | 1 Project MembersImported from Grants Tool 4708183
Bureaugraphies. Administration After the Age of Bureaucracy Research Project | 1 Project MembersImported from Grants Tool 4695737
Die Nachtseite der Musik: Ansätze zu einer neuen Historiographie des Musizierens in Europa, 1500-1800 Research Project | 1 Project MembersNo Description available
Transferts des savoirs et création d'autorité : La diffusion européenne des ouvrages de Jean Versoris (ca. 1440-1500). Research Project | 1 Project MembersNo Description available
Die zeitgenössische Wirkungsgeschichte von Richard Wagners "Das Judenthum in der Musik" Research Project | 1 Project MembersImported from Grants Tool 4649855
Just Parenthood: The Ethics and Politics of Childrearing in the 21st Century Research Project | 1 Project MembersNo Description available
Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s Research Project | 1 Project MembersFrom video surveillance to online teaching, from drone warfare, highway management to telemedicine: closed-circuit images take up multiple spaces today. Despite being quotidian, their history remains largely unknown. Operative TV's goal is to fill this gap by providing the first ever study of audiovisual closed-circuits in the longue durée. It scrutinizes the closed-circuits' diversity between the 1930s and the 1990s and develops case studies from the USA, France, the UK, Germany, and Switzerland - countries crucial for the development of closed-circuits and providing access to resources for writing the history of a medium whose images were conceived as instruments rather than representations.Distributed under Industrial Television and CCTV (for closed-circuit television), the systems were developed in Europe and the USA mainly by enterprises active in televisual R&D (i.e., RCA, Grundig, and many more). In their most basic organization, they connected a camera with a monitor by cable; more sophisticated designs allowed for the video recording of content or bi-directional conversation. While CCTV today stands as a synonym of the surveillance camera, its historical applications were at least as heterogeneous as contemporary closed-circuits and used on factory floors and in nuclear plants, in hospitals and schools. In this study, subproject (SP) 2 focuses on surveillance operations. However, Operative TV also emphasizes televisual practices beyond the surveillance framework and the closed-circuit's embeddedness in multiple institutional spaces. In lieu of using a narrow definition of what I call audiovisual closed-circuits (AVCC), I comprehend AVCC as a flexible and pluriform system: its applicability beyond the surveillance camera paradoxically stems from its closed design. Drawing upon multinational archival research, Operative TV examines two main hypotheses. First, it posits that the analysis of television in industrial, educational, and military contexts cannot be based on habitual analytical categories such as texts or spectators. Instead, AVCC necessitates a methodological shift towards an understanding of audiovisual production as a chain of operations that allows analyzing the entanglement of human and non-human actors. AVCC's usefulness indeed was contingent on the interplay of heterogeneous elements including operators, screens, infrastructures, and images: their interdependence, rather than the isolated components, should form the core of a historical enquiry. Second, Operative TV argues that the history of AVCC, an analog-electronic technology, nourishes a media archaeology of the digital. AVCC emerged at the same moment as digital computers; it coexisted and sometimes converged with digital machines. Before the computer definitively took over factory and office floors, television was used as a tool for operations ranging from targeting to instructing: analyzing AVCC's alleged "universality" (Journal d'Yverdon 1955) allows to better understand the emergence of our digital society. To discuss these two hypotheses, the project introduces an original framework drawing upon recent media theory, and looks more specifically at four operations performed by AVCC (SP 1 to 4). In addition to the operation of surveilling (SP 2), targeting (SP 1) was a central - and first - function of closed-circuits from the 1930s on; automating the workplace and instructing students (SP 3 & 4) were other tasks performed by AVCC in the postwar years. Sustained by complex human-machines ecologies, these operations would rapidly be executed by digital computers: before their digitization, they were the realm of analog TV.
Die zeitgenössische Wirkungsgeschichte von Richard Wagners "Das Judenthum in der Musik". Dokumentation und Debatte Research Project | 1 Project MembersNo Description available
Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe Research Project | 5 Project MembersDie Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe (AWG) ist eine historisch-kritische Edition, die das gesamte kompositorische Schaffen Anton Weberns der Öffentlichkeit in wissenschafltich angemessener und der musikalischen Praxis dienender Form zugänglich machen will. Die Edition beinhaltet nicht nur die von Webern selbst zum Druck beförderten Werke, sondern auch deren unpublizierte Fassungen, zu Lebzeiten unveröffentlichte Kompositionen, Jugend- und Studienkompositionen sowie Fragmente, Skizzen und Bearbeitungen. Die AWG entsteht am Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminar der Universität Basel in enger inhaltlicher Zusammenarbeit mit der Paul Sacher Stiftung Basel , wo der grösste Teil der überlieferten Webern-Quellen aufbewahrt wird. Seit Oktober 2006 wird die Gesamtausgabe vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds und seit 2019 von der Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften gefördert. Ausserdem wurde in einer Kooperation mit der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften ab 2008 eine Wiener Arbeitsstelle eingerichtet, die Dokumente zur Werkgeschichte, Rezeption und zum historischen Kontext recherchiert. Diese Zusammenarbeit wurde durch Fördermittel der Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung ausgebaut. Erscheinen wird die AWG in einer Print-/Online-Hybrid-Edition , deren gedruckte Bände bei der Universal Edition, Wien publiziert und deren online zugängliche Bestandteile auf der Plattform Knora/SALSAH des Digital Humanities Lab der Universität Basel präsentiert werden. Die AWG versteht sich als Kompetenzzentrum, in dem neben den editorischen auch archivarische, dokumentarische, analytisch-forschende, kommunizierende, dienstleistende und organisatorische Aktivitäten vernetzt werden. So wurden neben den editorsichen Tätigkeiten mehrere Tagungen organisiert (Der junge Webern, 2012; webern@segantini, 2014) und eine Schriftenreihe gegründet ( Webern-Studien ), die der Webern-Forschung insgesamt ein Forum bieten möchte, in der aber auch begleitende Materialien zur Gesamtausgabe publiziert werden können. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Projekt-Website .
