Error 417 Expectation Failed is an independent foundation supporting radically contemporary Internet art and net-based arts practices. We encourage open-ended formats, risky projects and explorative artworks that engage critically with contemporary technology. Our focus lies on art that addresses the frictions between technology, aesthetics, politics and social relations to challenge power structures — one hack, glitch, fail, error, process and experiment at a time.
Olia Lialina is among the best-known participants in the 1990s net.art scene - an early-days, network-based art pioneer. Her early work had a great impact on recognizing the Internet as a medium for artistic expression and storytelling. This century, her continuous and close attention to Internet architecture, "net.language" and vernacular web - in both artistic and publishing projects - has made her an important voice in contemporary art and new media theory.
Lola Odelola is a multidisciplinary artist and technologist. She contributes to open standards through various W3C groups and serves on the W3C Technical Architecture Group as an invited expert. Lola is currently using photography and creative writing to explore themes that come up in her technical work.
Lucia Rebolino is an artist, architect, and computational designer. She conceives her practice as a space where different branches of science and design can conceptualize, critique, and visualize new aesthetics, drawing attention to complex and invisible systems. She is a researcher with Forensic Architecture in London, focusing on environmental justice investigations. Her work on prediction and climate models has been featured in e-flux and exhibited at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale (2025) and the Busan Museum of Art in South Korea (2026). Her research-based artistic practice explores technology-driven performances, and she has lectured at international institutions including MoMA, MediaLab Matadero, Columbia University, the Royal College of Art, and ETH Zurich.
Lenyx Dickey (they/them) is a Black queer computational media artist based in Charlotte, NC. Their practice exists at the intersection of code, care, and culture. As a self-taught programmer with over six years of experience, they founded the Black Sex Worker Reparation Fund and teach workshops for The Rouge Support Network. Lenyx’s artistic practice explores themes of digital archiving, queer storytelling, and speculative systems. They strive to investigate how code can preserve marginalized histories and create new forms of kinship.
Kat Macdonald is a London-based sound and performance artist exploring collective practice and public space through technology, transmission and alternative pedagogies. She is the founder of the London Community Laptop Orchestra and a long time member of the Design And Performance Lab (DAP Lab).
Mariana Marangoni is a Brazilian artist, researcher, and lecturer in MA Interaction Design at the London College of Communication. Her work utilizes installations and visual poetry to explore media materiality, the aesthetics of decay, and unconventional computational paradigms. Currently a PhD student at the UAL Creative Computing Institute, Mariana has exhibited and presented her research internationally at venues such as the V&A, Ars Electronica, and Transmediale. She is a core member of the Critical Climate Computing Research Group at UAL.
Dana Dawud is an artist and writer whose practice moves between film, montage, and sound design, navigating the fluidity of internet cinema across both online and offline spaces. Her work traces ruptures and reverberations in contemporary culture, often taking shape as experimental moving-image projects that resist closure and evolve through mutation and accumulation.
Winnie Soon is a Hong Kong-born artist coder and researcher interested in the cultural implications of digital infrastructure that addresses wider power asymmetries with a particular interest in computational publishing, queering code and software. Their artistic and scholarly works engage with themes such as Free and Open Source Culture, Coding Otherwise, artistic/technical manuals, digital censorship and minor technology. With works appearing in museums, galleries, festivals, distributed networks, papers and alternative written forms, including co-written books titled Publishing as Collective Infrastructure (f2026), Boundary Images (2023), Fix My Code (2021), and Aesthetic Programming (2020). They are also co-editor of the Software Studies Series at MIT Press and serve as Associate Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.
