Error 417 x Medialab Matadero

A collaboration for OpenLAB: Weird Futures at Matadero Madrid from 27–29 November 2025

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.”

OpenLAB marks the closing of LAB 4 Weird Futures, a program that explores the technological imagination of instability – its power, its instrumentalization, and the possible alternatives hidden within its cracks and failures.

Medialab Matadero brings together artists, technologists, designers, thinkers, and engaged publics to investigate the intersections between technological imagination and a society that oscillates between the desire for control and the extreme volatility of the present.

Both Medialab Matadero and Error 417 share a critical stance toward dominant technological narratives by questioning techno-solutionism and control. We encourage collaboration across fields and public engagement to rethink agency under technological domination. Our organisations each invite creative, situated forms of resistance – whether through “scores” (instructions, acts, interventions) or speculative exploration of “radical alternatives.” Both frame art as a means to expose and subvert technological ideologies – turning dystopian aesthetics and weird imaginaries into spaces of political imagination.

As part of the conference program from 27-29 November 2025 at Matadero in Madrid, we present three events:

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Check out the full festival and conference program with project presentations, talks, performative lectures, professional meetings, and music:

And read our interview with Bani Brusadin, the curator and director of Medialab Matadero in Madrid, whom we collaborated with for our funding program Error 415 Unsupported Media Type: