Code Error is a multimedia project exploring breakdowns: digital, biological, evolutionary, and gendered. It brings together artists from Europe and the USA, each working with visual and systemic distortions.

These twelve unique approaches to error, whether rooted in code, gender, or evolutionary processes, form a layered field of investigation, turned into an artistic strategy.

The project affirms complexity, mutating identity, and the right of error to exist. Failures of code are seen not as malfunctions but as opportunities, where mutation becomes both survival and a path to the new.

Its core idea: error is a form of life, mutation is the language of evolution, and breakdown is an act of freedom. At the heart of the inquiry is (artificial) intelligence, at once collaborator and adversary, and a mirror of natural systemic breakdowns in species, gender, and ecosystems. It provokes thought and becomes a tool through which artists generate new visual forms, while confronting their own perceptual limits and exposing failures.

The project is the artistic research, the first stage of a Web Documentary, a constantly shifting, never-finished investigation. Each participant creates an “episode of error,” a line of code, a personal visual language. Together, these episodes compose a dynamic archive that never stabilizes but continually transforms.

In its next stage, Code Error will become interactive, inviting the audience to participate in shaping the work. Viewers will be able to contribute comments, thoughts, and data, turning the web documentary into a shared, living system.