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

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…

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…