During this first lecture, in the frame of the Transmission in Motion Seminar, Nicolas Salazar developed certain ideas about how rocks, and especially limestones in caves, can transmit as much as any digital media nowadays. The main idea that I got from this session could be summarised as it follows: transmission is not something confined…

In his presentation, Nicolas Salazar Sutil offers a new beginning, reaching back to pre-historic knowledge. This opening, that he is mapping out in his forthcoming book Matter in Transmission (Bloomsbury), overcomes the idea that transmission is only possible in conventional telecommunicational forms, such as electricity, radio-waves, microwave and infra-red. Instead, he invites elements – water,…