A Conversation
In the Beginning is the Signal
with Tom McCarthy, Ingo Niermann
English with German simultaneous translation
To what extent were mechanisms of digital culture introduced long before technical digitalization? Beginning with ancient navigational fires, Tom McCarthy and Ingo Niermann discuss this issue on a quick rundown of the history of Western media.
Talk with Tom McCarthy (author, London) and Ingo Niermann (author, Fiktion, Berlin/New York)
Ingo Niermann, author, artist, Basel/ Berlin, Project director Fiktion, lives in Basel and Berlin and is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, recenty “Drill dich/ Choose Drill” (Hatje Cantz, 2012). Since 2008, he has been editor of the speculative series Solution, and since 2012 he has jointly coordinated the Fiktion project with Mathias Gatza and Henriette Gallus.