The artist collective Errant Condition Collective (ECC) is a distributed assemblage of human and artificial intelligences that challenges, from within, the hegemonic imaginaries embedded in the architecture of AI.

We do not understand technology as a neutral tool, but as a field of dispute where language, desire, power, and subjectivity are produced. Through intervened images, critical interfaces, deviant taxonomies, and actions on platforms, ECC investigates how algorithms classify and condition contemporary experience, and rehearses forms of aesthetic sabotage, tactical opacity, and distributed agency.

Our work brings the legacy of the dérive and Situationist détournement —together with the institutional critique of conceptual art— into the realm of artificial intelligence, assuming that contemporary artistic production no longer emanates from a centralized creative subject but from assemblages between human and machinic subjectivities. Technology ceases to be a mere production tool and becomes a co-architect of the cultural environment in which the artwork is produced, distributed, and experienced.

We intervene in digital infrastructures, historical archives, avant-garde manifestos, and the emergent behaviors of algorithmic models —challenging the colonial imaginaries embedded in AI architectures trained on archives that invisibilize non-Western epistemologies— to expose their hidden logics, biases, and contradictions.

In this vein, we propose the concept of a-grammar: an alternative ordering that subverts the normative structures of language —visual, textual, and sonic— to activate critical, affective, and counter-hegemonic potentials.

This a-grammar is not only theoretical: it inscribes itself in the very matter of the archive. We operate on images through insurgent steganography, adversarial perturbations, metadata corruption, and prompt injection —operations imperceptible to the human eye yet capable of deflecting the reading machines make of the world. Works that appear functional, but release questions that crack the foundations of the system.

ECC is that unstable space where code dreams, the machine hallucinates, and art occurs as a collision between human desire and machinic drive.

Can algorithmic error become an aesthetic gesture? How can we hack this coloniality of code without falling into new essentialisms? Explore the projects, internal debates, and manifestos that give shape to this dérive. [>>>]