Daily Briefing: The Algorithm Before the Machine: Vera Molnar, Sarah Cook, and Writing the Field Into Existence

Hyperallergic asks whether artworks can have legal personhood, raising questions about authorship and institutional translation. Plus: John Jacob and the Sites Unseen curatorial frame at SAAM, Centre Phi Montreal and the Luxembourg Film Fund immersive circuit, and ZKM Open Hertzlab MARS! Governance…

Adam Harvey, Paolo Cirio, and Heather Dewey-Hagborg: three counter-surveillance artists whose works make claims that depend on the tool actually functioning.

Françoise Poos, Artistic and Scientific Director at Elektron Luxembourg, frames the distinction between art that operates inside systems and art that illustrates them from outside. Lauren Berlant, Track Tracy, and the question of what a nomadic institution becomes when it acquires a fixed space. ZK…

Three curators, three answers to the same question: where does surveillance art discourse actually live? Stephanie Hankey, Elena Filipovic, and Marc Garrett and their different theories of space, authority, and audience.