Daniela Zetti
Dr. Daniela Zetti is a historian of technology specializing in the history of media. Daniela is the author of a monograph on the emergence of television production in post war West Germany Das Programm der elektronischen Vielfalt . Currently she is doing research on radio studios as sonic spaces and technological black boxes.
Daniela has been working in Zurich, Luneburg, Lubeck and Munich. Publications deal with the materiality of information and digital sovereignty. In 2025, a SNF-Spark research grant is giving her the opportunity to explore the history of the Lausanne radio studios in La Sallaz. The project “The House of Radio” accompanies the radio’s move out of a building that was used for broadcasting for a century.
The project departs from the observation that studios can be understood as broadcasting’s technological black boxes. They are deeply marked by technological development and highly specialized facilities that create isolated rooms in order to shield radio and television makers from the environment. Studios are restricting the public’s access, while being at the core of the public service. They can’t be understood without a variety of practices from architecture, electronics, music, performance, without acts of thought, imagination and – this is a special focus of her current research – acoustics.