13 S𰀠𰅃𰅦𰁖𰅴 𰀅𰁩𰀀𰂔N𰅸𰆆 𰆄𰁒𰀡𰁷 𰁡𰀄𰅵𰀥𰂔𰅶M - Online Exhibition
Online Exhibition now live!
13 Scores Against Tech Fascism is an online group exhibition that presents 13 projects selected through the open call Error 406 [Tech Fascism] Not Acceptable, initiated by Error 417 Expectation Failed in 2025.
With works by: jiawen uffline, 868labs, Alexey Boriskin, kunsf.xyz, The Rojava Center for Democratic Technologies, El Proyecto Sonidero, Enkaryon Ang, Signals Rising, NotToday, Annika Santhanam, David Huerta, permacomputing.net and gabe nascimento.
The 13 Scores Against Tech Fascism are situated in very specific contexts; they range from interview protocols exposing the absurd principles guiding tech company leadership, to speculative blueprints of a DIY rocket for disrupting the White House’s Wi-Fi; from a step-by-step guide for turning tennis balls into protest devices to instructions for spamming the ICE hotline or even for using Trojan-horse tactics such as placing left-theory texts inside Jordan Peterson book covers in public libraries. More community-focussed project scores include instructions for producing and distributing mesh devices (we even have two of those 1 2) and building alternative collective tech infrastructures; from open calls for joyful dance events to transforming recipes used to mask censorship into forms of community activation. Some projects show us easy tricks on how to make our texts too dirty to train large language models, while others build poetic tools for Taiwanese speakers to hide meaning from state sanctioned speech.
Within the exhibition, the score becomes a site of agency. Manuals, how-tos, and instructions hold emancipatory potential. The open-ended and procedural character of instructions is emphasized, inviting visitors to interpret and improvise, to reclaim autonomy and space from commodification.
To contextualize the original call's topic, the foundation commissioned two essays by cultural and media theorists Ana Teixeira Pinto and tante.
Website concept & design by David Liebermann.