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

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.

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

Two approaches to machine infrastructure legibility: James Bridle names and theorizes (New Aesthetic, New Dark Age, Ways of Being); Julian Oliver builds interventions that detonate (Critical Engineering Manifesto, Newstweek, Transparency Grenade). Closing on ZKM Life After the Academy and MARS! Gov…

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…