AMRO26 - Art Meets Radical Openness
13. bis 16. Mai 2026 diverse Standorte in Linz
servus.at lädt in Kooperation mit der Kunstuni Linz zum Festival.
Art Meets Radical Openness
AMRO, Art Meets Radical Openness, is a festival, a platform and a community for art, hacktivism and open cultures, organized since 2008 by servus.at in cooperation with the Linz University of Art, Department of Time-Based Media.
“Art Meets Radical Openness” brings together local and international artists, activists, developers, researchers and hacktivists involved with the culture of sharing and communal production. They are catalysts that spark new discourses and open up new directions of thinking.
Free Open Source Software, open tools in general and the use of free licenses are the precondition and basis for the digital practice of a community like this, which impels social transformation. This tangible transformation goes beyond a digital practice and also changes our real life.
The festival
AMRO hosts on a biennial basis a 4-days festival organized at afo-architekturforum oberösterreich, Kunstuniversität Linz, Stadtwerkstatt and other locations, dedicated to current aspects of the connected society.
Titles such as "Autonomy (im)possible?", "Waste(d)!", "Unmapping Infrastructures", "Of Whirlpools and Tornadoes", and "Debug" offer year per year lenses to observe and react to the continuous changes of technological development and industrial interests, which the AMRO community challenges with artistic research and provocations.
The research labs
In-between the festival editions, AMRO becomes a platform for artistic research, organized in series of laboratories deepening punctual topics of current networked times.
Past research labs dealt with several topics: the emergence of social bots as tools to manipulate opinions; the very low tech processes behind the smart world; the environmental impact of digital technologies; conversational AIs and experimental programming languages; labor and exploitation in platforms and servers; permacomputing; fluidics; big tech and the politics of isolation.
Website and program: radical-openness.org
