AMRO26: Art Meets Radical Openness
13. bis 16. Mai 2026 diverse Standorte in Linz
Festival dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture
servus.at lädt in Kooperation mit den Abteilungen Zeitbasierte Medien und Visuelle Kommunikation, der Kunstuniversität Linz zum Festival.
Art Meets Radical Openness (AMRO) is a biennial community festival for art, hacktivism and open cultures. It provides a space for discussion and resistance against technological monoculture, and for sharing and learning together on contemporary issues of our networked times.
#AMRO26: „Becoming Unreadable“
For its 2026 edition, titled „Becoming Unreadable“, AMRO invites its community to reflect on and engage with invisibility, unreadability, ungovernability, and uncomputability as strategies for resistance. AMRO26 aims at challenging the common understanding of AI, networks and computers, and through its programme, explores approaches that offer real change: low-tech, feminist and community IT, computing within limits, up to even more radical ideas around de-computing, de-networking, de-scaling and de-platforming ourselves. Becoming unreadable involves evading surveillance by oligarchic tech corporations, operate under the radar, and refuse to comply to the total AI cloud. Non-commercial community infrastructures are fundamental tools in this process, but even more importantly we need to develop new ways of understanding each others and being together as humans. Art Meets Radical Openness wants to be a space dedicated to that.
Programme overview
May 12, 2026 - Pre-opening
18.30 / SPLACE / Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz 6
May 13, 2026 - Opening & Keynotes
18.00 / Exhibition: From the Ashes of the Burnout Machines / Galerie MAERZ / Eisenbahngasse 20
19.00 / afo – architekturforum oberösterreich / Herbert-Bayer-Platz 1
May 13 to 16,2026 from 10.00 to 00+
Lectures, concerts, workshops, exhibitions.
May16, 2026 – Closing event – Night-line
21.00 to 02.00 / STWST / Kirchengasse 4
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.
Participants
Adel Faure & Rémi Georges, Arnica Montana, Lil Data, map(h), Mitsitron, MSHR, Orangetronic, Pasta Gang
Alumni: Jens Vetter, Sofia Braga, Davide Bevilacqua, Aimilia Liontou, Gabriela Gordillo, Ushi Reiter, Maria Orciuoli, Giacomo Piazzi, Antonio Zingaro, Florian Köfler, Lina Pulido Barragan
Departments & Current Students: Marianne Lechner, Nina Wenhart, Joseph Knierzinger (Professor), Martina Pizzigoni, Alessia Fallica, Christina Gruber (Professor), Gorka Egino & Sule Suarez, Hess Jeon (Phd Candidate)
Full programme on: radical-openness.org
Tickets :AMRO26 events are free of charge, but you can support the festival by purchasing a supporter ticket kupfticket.com/en/events/amro26-supporter-ticket
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