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#AMRO26 | On-air #2
This episode features @dvd, curator of AMRO26, @joak, artist, and Gabriella Gordillo, curator of the Nightline program.
Together we explored the strong community at the heart of #AMRO: what formats invite #participation? How do #artists respond to current technological and social conditions, fostering #criticalreflection?

🔗 https://www.fro.at/amro26-on-air-2/

#AMRO2026 #BecomingUnreadable #linz #culture #kultur #festival #mediaarts #floss

It includes both technical and social strategies.

De-networking explores alternative ways of relating that do not depend on platforms, data extraction, or permanent connectivity.

#AMRO2026 #BecomingUnreadable #Denetworking #linz #culture #kultur #festival #mediaarts

It questions automation and algorithmic decision-making. Decomputing opens space for simpler, more human-centered ways of thinking and acting.

Learn more about the festival’s themes and selected program points in the second episode of AMRO on Air 2026 with Davide Bevilacqua, Joseph Knierzinger and Gabriela Gordillo. Available today at 17:00 on Radio FRO.

#AMRO2026 #BecomingUnreadable #Decomputing #linz #culture #kultur #festival #mediaarts

Glossary 5/6 - De-computing

With this glossary series, AMRO 2026 introduces concepts, terms, and practices that shape the festival’s thematic field. Rather than fixed definitions, these entries are invitations to approach shared questions through different critical vocabularies.

“De-computing” asks what happens when we reduce reliance on computational systems.

#AMRO2026 #BecomingUnreadable #Decomputing #linz #culture #kultur #festival #mediaarts

It challenges dominant narratives of growth and expansion.

Instead, it values smaller, locally rooted, and sustainable forms of organization.

Learn more about the festival’s themes and selected program points in the second episode of AMRO on Air 2026 with @dvd, @joak and Gabriela Gordillo. Available on 4 May at 17:00 on Radio FRO.

#AMRO2026 #BecomingUnreadable #Descaling #linz #culture #kultur #festival #mediaarts

"The discursive programme of AMRO focuses hence of #oppositionalstrategies against the #hypervision of the machine, finding ways to escape from the all-seeing eye of the #AI and becoming undetectable, #unreadable, and hence #ungovernable, #uncontrollable."

> Read the full article for #AMRO26 X CLOT magazine co-written by @dvd and @martypizzi here:
https://clotmag.com/oped/amro-2026-becoming-unreadable-fosters-aesthetics-cultural-practices-of-resistance-against-computational-depletion-totalising-ai

#AMRO2026 #BecomingUnreadable #FLOSS #linz #culture #kultur #festival #mediaarts

It refers to software that can be used, studied, modified, and shared openly.

Beyond technology, it represents a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and collective knowledge production.

#AMRO2026 #BecomingUnreadable #FLOSS #linz #culture #kultur #festival #mediaarts

Glossary 3/6 - FLOSS

With this glossary series, AMRO 2026 introduces concepts, terms, and practices that shape the festival’s thematic field. Rather than fixed definitions, these entries are invitations to approach shared questions through different critical vocabularies.

“FLOSS” stands for Free/Libre Open Source Software.

#AMRO2026 #BecomingUnreadable #FLOSS #linz #culture #kultur #festival #mediaarts

It can be a gradual process rather than a sudden exit.

Alongside refusal, it emphasizes building alternatives: independent, community-controlled spaces for communication, exchange, and sharing.

#AMRO2026 #BecomingUnreadable #Deplatforming #linz #culture #kultur #festival #mediaarts

Glossary 2/6 - De-platforming

With this glossary series, AMRO 2026 introduces concepts, terms, and practices that shape the festival’s thematic field. Rather than fixed definitions, these entries are invitations to approach shared questions through different critical vocabularies.

“De-platforming” considers what it means to step away from dominant digital infrastructures.

#AMRO2026 #BecomingUnreadable #Deplatforming #linz #culture #kultur #festival #mediaarts

Against systems built on legibility, classification, and extraction, it points to ways of evading capture - technically, socially, and aesthetically.

Not opacity as withdrawal, but unreadability as a way of negotiating power: refusing full accessibility to surveillance, algorithmic interpretation, or commodification.

#AMRO2026 #BecomingUnreadable #linz #culture #kultur #festival #mediaarts

Glossary 1/6 - Becoming Unreadable

With this glossary series, AMRO 2026 introduces concepts, terms, and practices that shape the festival’s thematic field. Rather than fixed definitions, these entries are invitations to approach shared questions through different critical vocabularies.

“Becoming unreadable” asks how unreadability might function as a practice of resistance.

#AMRO2026 #BecomingUnreadable #linz #culture #kultur #festival #mediaarts

AMRO26 / Art Meets Radical Openness / Becoming Unreadable

afo - architekturforum oberösterreich, Wednesday, May 13 at 10:00 AM GMT+2

13. – 16. May 2026
Linz, Austria

AMRO26:
Becoming unreadable

Art Meets Radical Openness
Festival dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture

Art Meets Radical Openness 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.

The current techno-political moment is dominated by AI and by the strengthening of the alliance between big tech and conservative politics, as well as a blind faith in endless computational growth. All of this relies on forms of “hyper-visibility”, based on the assumption that a constant online omnipresence is normal and desirable. Our interconnectedness forms the basis of mainstream digital cultures and serves as a tool for ubiquitous surveillance and the exploitative appropriation of works and data by big tech, which demands critical opposition.

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.

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Program:

12. May - Pre-opening

18:30 / SPLACE / Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz 6
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13. May - 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
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13. – 16. May, from 10:00-00+
Lectures, concerts, workshops, exhibitions:
full program on [https://radical-openness.org/]
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16. May – Closing event - Night-line
21:00-02:00 / STWST / Kirchengasse 4
with Adel Faure & Rémi Georges, Arnica Montana, Jens Vetter, Lil Data, map(h), Mitsitron, MSHR, Orangetronic, Pasta Gang, & more.
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Showcases:
From the Ashes of the Burnout Machines / Galerie MAERZ
13. - 16. May | (Everyday, 10:00-19:00) | Eisenbahngasse 20
Curated by Davide Bevilacqua, Arianna Forte, Noemi Garay, Lara Mejač, Diane Pricop
Exhibiting artists: 868.labs, S( )fia Braga, MOC Mara Oscar Cassiani, Marco Donnarumma, Fantastic Little Splash, Christina Gruber, Dasha Ilina & Marie Verdeil, Sam Lavigne, Repair and Redress, Mario Santamaría, Ioana Vreme Moser

Decay and Desire / bb15 – space for contemporary art
14. - 16. May | (Everyday, 10:00-19:00); 18th-22nd May, (Tue-Sat, 15:00-18:00) | Hafnerstraße 4
Exhibiting artists: Maja Bojanić and Brin Žvan & jiawen uffline

AMRO26: Becoming Unreadable / SPLACE
12. - 21. May | (Everyday, 10:00-19:00) | Kunstuniversität Linz, Hauptplatz 6
Exhibiting artists: a/o (Anna Watzinger/Olivia Jaques), Zelda Diedrich, Anna Kraher, Juli Laczko,Valie Messini, jiawen uffline


ABOUT AMRO

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 and Visual Communcation.

“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.

https://kulturkarte.servus.at/event/amro-26-art-meets-radical-openness

09.04. @#interlause (LauseRia, language: engl.)
18h Vernissage
19h Panel discussion with various artists
Theme: What does it mean to make (media)art in times of BigTech and how to resist with artistic means?

Exhibition (yard 5, starirs E)
10.-12.04. 16-20ha
13.-17.04. 16-19h
Finissage:
17.04. 17h

Lausitzer Str. 10, 10999 B.

At InterLause#17, we discuss with the artists Kathrin Hunze, Helena Nikonole, Navid Razavi, Conny es Said and others what it means to create tech art in the age of Big Tech and its commercially and ideologically driven LLMs and the like. Can niches be found where artists can still move freely? What artistic means do they employ to drive resistance against Big Tech? Or will everyone ultimately become mere cogs in the machine of oversized AIs, forced to accept overpriced subscriptions?

#antibigtech #mediaart #mediaarts #berlin #kreuzberg #vernissage #discussion