The Golden Nica at the 2026 Ars Electronica Awards went to Forensic Architecture’s project A Cartography of Genocide: Israel’s Conduct in Gaza Since October 2023. 

By transforming thousands of dispersed data points into a publicly accessible and navigable interface, the project demonstrates how interactive media can render complex realities legible without reducing their complexity. In doing so, the work transforms the interface into a civic infrastructure.

Read the catalog text and jury statement here.