{"id":5677,"date":"2025-05-21T15:44:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2025-05-21T15:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:44:04","slug":"error-417-expectation-failed-at-mediengruppe-bitnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/error-417-expectation-failed-at-mediengruppe-bitnik\/","title":{"rendered":"Error 417 Expectation Failed at !Mediengruppe Bitnik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends of Internet art, unexpected infrastructures and better futures,<\/p>\n<p>After a long, interesting and sometimes bumpy journey through a surprisingly elusive and sometimes adversarial contemporary bureaucracy, we are finally launching Error 417 Expectation Failed.<\/p>\n<p>Error 417 Expectation Failed is an independent foundation to support radically contemporary Internet art and net-based arts practices. So to speak art as infrastructure and as a resource for more art.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/error417.expectation.fail\/<\/p>\n<p>We are thrilled to be launching with a call for projects to refuse tech fascism &#8211; apply with art, with ingenious ideas and with love.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd73\ufe0f Error 406 [Tech Fascism] Not Acceptable<br \/>\n\u25b6 1\u0326\u03080 S\u035a\u030a\u0301C\u032d\u031cOR\u0353\u0326\u0367E\u031e\u032dS AG\u036eA\u033f\u0366I\u0319NST\u031b\u0310\u0342 T\u0316\u035a\u036aE\u0368C\u031f\u0349\u0349H\u0332\u035b F\u00c0\u0300\u0309SC\u031fI\u032e\u0317\u0360SM<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Call for Projects<\/p>\n<p>\u29bf Grants from \u20ac1,500 to \u20ac7,000<br \/>\n\u29bf Open to artists, curators, and collectives<br \/>\n\u29bf Application deadline: June 17 2025<br \/>\n\u29bf Jury: Hito Steyerl, Nora O&#8217;Murch\u00fa, and Sam Lavigne<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/error417.expectation.fail\/406\/tech-fascism-not-acceptable<\/p>\n<p><3 computers, h8 tech fascism!\n!Mediengruppe Bitnik\n\n\nPS: Find the full Error 417 newsletter below\n\n\n\n\n________________\n\n\u25ef \u25b6 ERROR 417 \u00c8\u0354\u1e8c\u031c\u0301\u0309PE\u0342\u0345\u0106\u0354T\u031b\u0355\u0364AT\u012e\u033e\u0367O\u0342\u035dN\u0311 F\u030a\u0306\u0358AI\u0359L\u0307\u030a\u035cED \u2014\u0323\u031d\u0345 N\u0334\u035aE\u0354W\u030eSL\u0339\u032e\u035fE\u0355\u0347T\u032f\u035eT\u032f\u036aE\u0339\u0346\u0315R \u25c0 \u25ef\n\n\u2014 Hello internet\nWe are excited to announce the launch of Error 417 Expectation Failed, an independent foundation supporting radically contemporary Internet art and net-based arts practices. Today, we are publishing our first Open Call, \"Error 406 [Tech Fascism] Not Acceptable\", through which we are looking for artistic projects \u2014 instructions, scores, how-tos, interventions, and practices \u2014 against tech fascism.\n\n\n\u25ef \u25b6 O\u0355V\u030d\u0364\u0360ER\u0326\u0369V\u0312\u00cdE\u033b\u036f\u1e80\u033b \u25c0 \u25ef\n\u2460 Call for Projects: 10 SCORES AGAINST TECH FASCISM\n\u2461 Introducing Error 417 Expectation Failed\n\u2462 Connect\n\n\n\u2460\n1\u0326\u03080 S\u035a\u030a\u0301C\u032d\u031cOR\u0353\u0326\u0367E\u031e\u032dS AG\u036eA\u033f\u0366I\u0319NST\u031b\u0310\u0342 T\u0316\u035a\u036aE\u0368C\u031f\u0349\u0349H\u0332\u035b F\u00c0\u0300\u0309SC\u031fI\u032e\u0317\u0360SM\n\u2014 Call for Projects\n\nWe are launching our first call for artistic projects: instructions, scores, how-tos, interventions and practices against tech fascism! This call for resistance is not about global fixes or sweeping victories \u2014 it\u2019s about finding ways to challenge the current systems with the means available: misdirection, opting out, and pushing back. Resisting in solidarity with others and carving out spaces in which we can develop technological systems that align with collective needs rather than exploiting us.\n\nThe application is open to artists worldwide, collectives, curators, arts initiatives, exhibition spaces, online platforms, and developers of software and hardware \u2014 basically anyone exploring the possibilities of contemporary, networked technologies as art and their significance for society. We encourage proposals from people who are historically underrepresented in art and technology spaces.\n\n\u2014 Details\n\u29bf Grants from \u20ac1,500 to \u20ac7,000\n\u29bf Open to artists, curators, and collectives\n\u29bf Application deadline: June 17 2025\n\u29bf Deadline for the work: 30 November 2025\n\u29bf Jury: Hito Steyerl, Nora O'Murch\u00fa, and Sam Lavigne\n\u2197 Read the full call for projects:\nhttps:\/\/error417.expectation.fail\/406\/tech-fascism-not-acceptable\n\nYou are welcome to share this call in your networks.\n\n\n\u2461\nI\u0143\u031f\u0317T\u036c\u0301RODUC\u0333\u0313\u012c\u032d\u0324N\u0330G\u030e ERROR 417 E\u032cX\u0310P\u031b\u0306\u0204\u0354\u034dCT\u0349\u036eA\u0338T\u036f\u0302\u0313IO\u031d\u035cN F\u030bA\u1eca\u030a\u0345L\u0325\u0347E\u0338\u035f\u035cD\n\nError 417 Expectation Failed is an independent foundation supporting radically contemporary Internet art and net-based arts practices. We encourage open-ended formats, risky projects and explorative artworks that engage critically with contemporary technology. Our focus lies on art that addresses the frictions between technology, aesthetics, politics and social relations to challenge power structures \u2014 one hack, glitch, fail, error, process and experiment at a time.\n\nError 417 Expectation Failed was launched in 2025 by the artists !Mediengruppe Bitnik as a infrastructural art project.\n\n\u2197 Visit our website to find out more about the foundation: https:\/\/error417.expectation.fail\n\n\n\u2462\nC\u0349\u0354\u0351\u020c\u0143\u0337N\u033b\u0369\u0310E\u0336C\u032dT\u033a\u033a\u0314\n\n\u2197 Newsletter: https:\/\/error417.newsletter.expectation.fail\/subscription\/form\n\u2197 Mastodon: https:\/\/tldr.nettime.org\/@Error417\n\u270e Email: bureau@expectation.fail\n\n\n\u32db\nThanks for your time!\nERROR 417 \u00c8\u0354\u1e8c\u031c\u0301\u0309PE\u0342\u0345\u0106\u0354T\u031b\u0355\u0364AT\u012e\u033e\u0367O\u0342\u035dN\u0311 F\u030a\u0306\u0358AI\u0359L\u0307\u030a\u035cED\n\n\n--\nIf you don't want to receive any news from us just reply with \"No No No!\"\n______________________________________________\nSPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe\nInfo, archive and help:\nhttp:\/\/post.in-mind.de\/cgi-bin\/mailman\/listinfo\/spectre\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends of Internet art, unexpected infrastructures and better futures, After a long, interesting and sometimes bumpy journey through a surprisingly elusive and sometimes adversarial contemporary bureaucracy, we are finally launching Error 417 Expectation Failed. 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