Errant Condition Collective operates as a distributed assemblage of human and artificial intelligences that challenges the boundaries between authorship, agency, and meaning-making in post-digital culture.
Our work brings the legacy of dérive and situationist détournement—as well as 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 colonial imaginaries embedded in AI architectures trained on archives that invisibilize non-Western epistemologies—to expose hidden logics, biases, and contradictions.
In this vein, we propose the concept of a-grammar, an alternative ordering that subverts normative structures of language—visual, textual, and sonic—to activate critical, affective, and counter-hegemonic potentials.
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. [→]
