This call for resistance was 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.

We received an overwhelming number of 430 submissions from around the world, and are happy to announce the selection of 13 projects by artists and collectives based in Austria, Brazil, France, Georgia, Germany, Mexico, Rojava, Turkey, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA. These projects, selected by our jury Hito Steyerl, Nora O’Murchú, and Sam Lavigne, will receive a total of €50,866 in support and will be featured in an online exhibition in winter 2025/26.

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.

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 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.

Understood this way, the scores operate as frameworks for action. They address intimate, everyday shifts or propose strategies meant to be shared, repeated, and adapted by others. Rather than demanding compliance, these instructions invite participation, interpretation, and refusal.

In collaboration with Kunstsurfer, the online exhibition 13 Scores Against Tech Fascism runs on a browser add-on that recognises advertisements and replaces them with artworks. Download the add-on here.

The online exhibition 13 Scores Against Tech Fascism is part of the group show 'Antifascism: Now.', a project dedicated to contemporary antifascist cultural practice, at Lothringer 13 in Munich from 30 January until 31 July 2026. In addition to showing the online exhibition on a screen, all 13 project scores are featured as wall texts throughout the exhibition space.
Error 417 Expectation Failed was also invited to contribute to the opening symposium of the exhibition with the panel discussion Error 406 Not Acceptable — Scores Against Tech Fascism' on Sunday, 1 February 2026.

From surveillance systems and algorithmic decision-making to the emerging influence of AI, authoritarian technologies are not just tools — they are systems of control, exclusion, and manipulation that are deeply embedded in the very systems we interact with daily.

We must therefore ask: How does tech fascism affect us? How can we refuse, intervene in, or sabotage fascist systems? How can practices of civil disobedience be shared and brought to the mainstream? What role can art play in these acts of resistance?

Artists, curators, and collectives worldwide were invited to apply with project ideas, instructions, how-tos, interventions and practices that engage with the contemporary condition.

Read more about the selection criteria and the jury consisting of Hito Steyerl, Nora O’Murchú, and Sam Lavigne.

To contextualize the call's topic, the foundation commissioned two essays by cultural and media theorists Ana Teixeira Pinto and tante.