Error 415
𰆗𰄲𰅴𰆔𰅔𰅘𰅐𰅧𰆐𰁉𰀲 𰄡𰁗𰀹𰂔𰀀 𰆆𰈖𰅕𰁇
2025
In 2025, Error 415 Unsupported Media Type supports the Athens-based non-profit arts organisation Vektor as well as the Barcelona-based curator Bani Brusadin.
2025: two initiatives from Athens and Barcelona
Both Vektor Athens and Bani Brusadin support critical net-based and digital arts practices that intervene in today’s conversations around technology, politics and society. By providing platforms for these "unsupported media types," both initiatives encourage dialogues and community-building that challenge our understanding of today’s digital landscape and help navigate our increasingly digital world.
Collaborations
In collaboration with Bani Brusadin and Medialab Matadero, Error 417 Expectation Failed presents three projects connecting Error 417’s annual theme, “Scores Against Tech Fascism,” with OpenLAB’s focus on “Weird Futures,” for the OpenLAB conference at Matadero Madrid from 27 to 29 November 2025.
In spring 2026, Vektor Athens and Error 417 Expectation Failed commissioned a new work by Greek artist duo Latent Community for the group exhibition collapse: data.models.worlds., which was curated by Daphne Dragona and Katerina Gkoutziouli.
Biographies
V𰁇𰄈𰆅𰅂𰅧 A𰆅𰂄E𰄲𰅵
VEKTOR is a non-profit arts organisation based in Athens, Greece, founded in 2020 by Katerina Gkoutziouli and Voltnoi Brege. VEKTOR operates as a platform for local and international artists, curators and researchers exploring phenomena of the digital condition. VEKTOR curates, organises and produces exhibitions, research projects, publications and events with a focus on digital culture, visual arts, media arts and music. Its mission is to foster a deeper understanding of how technology is reshaping both artistic expression and our social and natural ecosystems. VEKTOR works to build networks with local and international artists and cultural organisations to reinforce the discussion about technology, innovation and the arts and their future development. With no permanent space and a roaming personality, it is dedicated to develop and promote critical and cultural discourse, showcase art forms that challenge our digital ecosystem and engage with diverse communities and audiences.
Katerina Gkoutziouli's research and curatorial practice centers on the digital condition, exploring issues related to Internet culture and network politics, cultural identity, automated systems, data-driven infrastructures, emerging AI technologies, and their impact on contemporary society. She is particularly interested in how technology shapes individual and collective narratives, while in recent years her research focus has been on how AI may influence more complex concepts such as justice, fairness, equality and ethics.
Recent projects include the radio conference Figure it Out: the art of living through system failures, the research publication on Art and Technology: the new generation of Greek artists, and the exhibitions Trials and Errors, Her Data and Imagine you wake up and there is no Internet. Upcoming projects include a bilingual (en-gr) publication on Art and AI and a group exhibition exploring the entangled futures of technology, ecology and social transformation in the context of the current polycrisis.
𰀔𰀅𰄲𰂆 𰀓R𰆗𰅹A𰀱IN
Bani Brusadin is a contemporary art curator, educator and researcher with a background in communication studies, cultural production, and creative activism. Bani Brusadin is currently working as lead curator at Medialab Matadero in Madrid, a public organization focused on digital cultures, artistic experimentation and grassroots research on technology and science. It is an evolution of earlier groundbreaking programs under the names of Medialab Madrid and Medialab Prado. Since 2021, and after the abrupt end of Medialab Prado, Medialab has been hosted by the Center for Contemporary Creation Matadero.
Bani Brusadin is currently working as lead curator at Medialab Matadero in Madrid, a public organization focused on digital cultures, artistic experimentation and grassroots research on technology and science. It is an evolution of earlier groundbreaking programs under the names of Medialab Madrid and Medialab Prado. Since 2021, and after the abrupt end of Medialab Prado, Medialab has been hosted by the Center for Contemporary Creation Matadero. He also is the co-curator of the 5th Industrial Art Biennial in Istria (Croatia), together up with Italian curator Giulia Colletti (Castello di Rivoli, CURA Magazine).
With a background in communication studies, cultural production, and creative activism, his work revolves around unconventional communication and artist tactics, technological dreams/nightmares, planetary-scale infrastructures, and all the possible feedback loops between them since the early 2000s. His curatorial practice interrogates the entanglements between art and technology, exploring how these relationships can offer critical insights into the challenges of the modern world. Brusadin thus challenges conventional notions of what art can be, seeking to engage with topics that reflect the complexity of the contemporary digital landscape. His work helps cultivate a deeper understanding of the social, political, and cultural implications of technology.
In the past, he ran and curated several projects on the same topics, among which The Influencers festival, co-curated by artists Eva & Franco Mattes, and produced in collaboration with the CCCB Center of Contemporary Cuture of Barcelona (2004 - 2019).
Based in: Madrid, Spain