A field map of counter-surveillance art and the tension between functional tools and institutional aestheticization. Plus the electromagnetic sensing lineage and a cluster of curators whose programs have tracked this territory for a decade.

Trevor Paglen wins the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award, and his career sequence -- books before institutions -- mirrors a pattern visible across the field. Plus: Christina Kubisch's electromagnetic founding gesture at ZKM, Tung-Hui Hu on infrastructure that was never neutral, and the consent gap that surveillance art has not yet named.

Christophe Gallois on the pensive image and photography as seismograph; Vincent Crapon and Elektron on making invisible infrastructure legible; Filipa Ramos appointed curator of Lofoten 2027.

Rosa Menkman and the career built on writing first. Post-digital materiality discourse from Cascone to Barad. Golan Levin on drawing machines.

Antonina Stebur frames transmediale 2027 around infrastructure as political substrate. A new book argues climate breakdown is irreducibly incomputable. And the climate data art landscape reveals a significant gap between weather-as-aesthetic and weather-as-data.

Sarah Cook and twenty-five years of building the curatorial infrastructure for new media art; Sougwen Chung on ecologies of drawing with robotic systems; a new British Academy volume on AI and art history arrives open access; and ZKM opens its Connection Machine conference tomorrow.

Three figures building field infrastructure in different registers: Luca Bendandi and Vetro Editions on the definitive plotter art survey, Gaetan Robillard on making climate denial physically tangible through overheating hardware, and Lauren Lee McCarthy on p5.js as political artifact. ZKM Envisioning AI opens in two days.

In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled that thermal imaging through walls is an illegal search. In 2025, WiFi sensing was ratified as a consumer standard. A major US ISP shares WiFi motion data with law enforcement without notice. 112 million installations are projected by 2030. No law addresses this. A conversation about what your router already knows and why no one is talking about it.

In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled that thermal imaging through walls was an illegal search. In 2025, WiFi sensing was ratified as a consumer standard. By 2030, 112 million homes will have routers that detect presence, movement, and vital signs through walls. A major ISP already shares this data with law enforcement. No law specifically prevents it. From Kyllo to 802.11bf: how the wall stopped working.

Four new curator and artist profiles: Christiane Paul and the canonical Programmed lineage at the Whitney, Licia He and the community-first path to gallery representation, Monica Bello and the post-CERN Platform Dali residency model, and brief notes on Chus Martinez and Manuela Moscoso.