Épisodes

  • Daily Briefing: The Criteria Are the Argument: HEK, ZKM, and Three Theories of What Art Is For

    Daily Briefing: The Criteria Are the Argument: HEK, ZKM, and Three Theories of What Art Is For
    Apr 27 2026
    A reading of selection criteria as institutional philosophy: what HEK, ZKM, and Transmediale each believe art is for, visible in the structures they built to make that happen.
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    25 min
  • Daily Briefing: Nine Months in a Castle -- Schloss Solitude, Eyebeam, and What Residencies Ask

    Daily Briefing: Nine Months in a Castle -- Schloss Solitude, Eyebeam, and What Residencies Ask
    Apr 26 2026
    Two theories of what a residency does: Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and Eyebeam in Brooklyn. One offers nine months in a Baroque palace with no required output. The other offers twelve weeks in Brooklyn with equipment access, an oral histories archive, and a network. Both have produced major artistic trajectories. What does each model ask, and what does each give?
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    23 min
  • Daily Briefing: After Weibel -- ZKM, Ars Electronica, and Three Theories of Institutional Purpose

    Daily Briefing: After Weibel -- ZKM, Ars Electronica, and Three Theories of Institutional Purpose
    Apr 26 2026
    Two ZKM exhibitions close today as the institution navigates its post-Weibel transition. This episode traces three theories of what a media art institution is for: ZKMs encyclopedic-and-useful-museum question, Ars Electronicas five-pillar omnivorous model, and iMALs degrowth-of-computation reorientation.
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    28 min
  • Daily Briefing: Writing Before Making: Paglen, bitforms, and the Long Road to Institutional Legitimacy

    Daily Briefing: Writing Before Making: Paglen, bitforms, and the Long Road to Institutional Legitimacy
    Apr 26 2026
    A two-part look at what it takes for a practice to arrive: Trevor Paglen writes three books before his first museum show, then waits fourteen years for gallery representation. bitforms builds a 25-year bridge between Manfred Mohr and the current generation. Two models of how legitimacy accumulates.
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    24 min
  • Daily Briefing: The Frame Is the Argument -- Zach Blas, Digital Occultism, and Pierre Huyghe Before the Beyeler

    Daily Briefing: The Frame Is the Argument -- Zach Blas, Digital Occultism, and Pierre Huyghe Before the Beyeler
    Apr 25 2026
    Zach Blas co-authors Digital Occultism for CAN Books, examining Silicon Valley hidden faith structures and how metric mysticism conceals itself as rationality. Pierre Huyghe opens at the Fondation Beyeler May 24 -- the living systems framework tested at scale. Plus EMAF 2026 closes in Osnabruck.
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    24 min
  • Daily Briefing: Safe to Fail -- LACMA Art+Technology Lab, the Lumen Prize, and What Institutional Support Asks

    Daily Briefing: Safe to Fail -- LACMA Art+Technology Lab, the Lumen Prize, and What Institutional Support Asks
    Apr 25 2026
    Two institutional models for art and technology support: LACMA Art+Technology Lab with its 1967 origin and corporate advisory board, and the Lumen Prize as open-entry community-forming mechanism. What each model asks of the art it supports.
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    27 min
  • Daily Briefing: Art That Deploys -- Françoise Poos, Elektron, and Working Inside the System

    Daily Briefing: Art That Deploys -- Françoise Poos, Elektron, and Working Inside the System
    Apr 24 2026
    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. ZKM Open Hertzlab MARS! Governance arrives today in Karlsruhe.
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    26 min
  • Daily Briefing: Performing the Archive: Sabine Himmelsbach, Digital Ruins, and HEK Basel's Thirty-Year Program

    Daily Briefing: Performing the Archive: Sabine Himmelsbach, Digital Ruins, and HEK Basel's Thirty-Year Program
    Apr 24 2026
    HEK Basel director Sabine Himmelsbach has been making a single curatorial argument for twenty-five years. Today we trace the arc from Iconoclash at ZKM to New Rituals for the End of the World, opening May 9.
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    24 min