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Tune in to the first podcast episode on #RadioFRO: 22. May April - 17:00

#AMRO26 | On-air #1
In this episode featuring @aderieg & Uschi Reiter from #servus we discussed the history of #AMRO festival and the importance of the #floss movement.
A key focus of this year’s edition is the theme #BecomingUnreadble. What does it mean to evade constant surveillance and data capture, and how can art open up new spaces for ambiguity and self-determination?

🔗 https://www.fro.at/amro26-on-air-1/

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

Sourdough #6 Drafting Hope, Creating Counter-Narratives with migrazine and maiz / magazine presentation

Raumschiff, Friday, April 24 at 05:00 PM GMT+2

Sourdough #6 (magazine presentation) 
Drafting Hope, Creating Counter-Narratives                                                                                                                                                                                                                               with migrazine and maiz

When: Friday, 24th April, 17:00–19:30
Where: Raumschiff, Pfarrplatz 18, 4020 Linz

In this gathering we present the last issue of the online-magazine migrazine "Drafting Hope, Creating Counter-Narratives” in which we took part in search for models of life, community and values that promote the emancipation from technology monopolies as well as our capacity for a political digital engagement. Intervening with counter-narratives, creating alternative uses and spaces for technologies, as well as building relationships that inspire empathy and generosity were some of the forms of (re)existence in a hyper-digitalized life that we gathered to tackle this issue.

Together with the authors Aimilia Liountou and Mary Maggic we will go through two of the published texts: respectively, the sociopolitical development of emojis in the global cultural sphere, and “Workshopology” as practice and research methodology for artists and interdisciplinary collaborations.

We invite activists, authors, artists, editors and general public to an evening full of playful, creative exchange on hegemonic digital infrastructure and possible ways to overcome them - acknowledging our contradictions at hand. 

This event will be held in English.

About
Verein maiz: Autonomous Centre by and for migrant women founded in Linz in 1994. Our goal is to better the living and working situation of migrant women in Austria and to promote their political and cultural participation, as well as to transform the existing, unjust social conditions. https://maiz.at/de 

migrazine - Online Magazine by Migrant Women* for Everyone is a multilingual magazine and alternative media platform that deals with migration-related phenomena as well as socio-political issues. migrazine went online for the first time in 2009, published by maiz (Autonomous Centre by & for Migrant Women), born out of a desire to make critical migrant voices more audible in the media and to stand up against the clichéd portrayal of migrants. http://www.migrazine.at/ 

Verein maiz and migrazine will be represented by Lia Kastiyo-Spinósa and Rosi Grillmair.

Aimilia Liontou (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, interested in the use of technology and its impact on the near future. In her artistic practice, she uses speculative scenarios as a means of investigating current realities and potential futures. By blending real facts with fantasy, she create projects that aim to question specific situations and encourage viewers to think for themselves, rather than suggesting specific solutions. Since May 2023 she is part of servus.at team. https://www.aimilialiontou.com

Mary Maggic (1991, Los Angeles) is an artist and researcher based in Vienna since 2017 whose practice revolves around workshopology as a shared process of amateurism and care that can collectively move us beyond pollution, planetary wounds, and grief. These workshopologies center ecological crisis as the starting point for embodying our permeability and vulnerability, informed by what our collectives and lands already know and feel. With this participatory practice, Maggic constantly searches for new embodied strategies for dissolving the boundaries between the personal and the planetary, and entering into new modalities of collective world-making. 

https://core.servus.at/en/projekt/sourdough/sourdough-6-drafting-hope-creating-counter-narratives

*Sourdough is funded by LINZimPULS.
poster: © Elizaveta Belkevich

https://kulturkarte.servus.at/event/sourdough-6-magazine-presentation-drafting-hope-creating-counter-narratives-with-migrazine-and-maiz

d*sign week 2025

Linz, Monday, November 24 at 10:00 AM GMT+1

d*sign week is a week format dedicated to experimental and independent design practices, taking place in Linz (AT).

For who(m) is the making?
d*sign week 2025
24th – 30th November 2025
Linz, Kulturverein zur Schießhalle, Stadtwerkstatt, University of Arts Linz

For whom do we design? And who has actually access to the tools for making?
How can we combine accessibility with the evolving language of visual communication?
d*sign week is a festival for experimental and independent design. The 2025 edition features workshops, lectures and conversations on design tools, graphic software and autonomous printing and publishing processes. Its programme investigates how access, participation and inclusion can be values that guide the making.

The d*sign week is a project initiated by the local cultural platforms Potato Publishing and servus.at and organized in collaboration with Kunstuniversität Linz, Timebased Media & Visual Communication.

The current edition takes place 24th–30th November 2025.

Programme details at the website: https://dsignweek.servus.at

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For who(m) is the making?
d*sign week 2025
24th – 30th November 2025
Linz, Kulturverein zur Schießhalle, Stadtwerkstatt, University of Arts Linz

Für wen gestalten wir? Wer hat Zugang zu den Gestaltungswerkzeugen? Wie können wir Zugänglichkeit mit der sich ständig weiterentwickelnden Sprache der visuellen Kommunikation kombinieren?

Die d*sign week ist ein Festival für experimentelles und unabhängiges Design. Die Ausgabe 2025 bietet Workshops und Gespräche zu Designwerkzeugen sowie zu autonomen Druck- und Veröffentlichungsprozessen. Das Programm untersucht, wie Zugang und Inklusion die Gestaltung begleiten können.

Die d*sign week wird von den unabhängigen Initiativen Potato Publishing und servus.at gemeinsam mit der Abteilungen Visuelle Kommunikation und Zeitbasierte Medien der Kunstuniversität Linz organisiert.

Details zur Programm: dsignweek.servus.at

https://kulturkarte.servus.at/event/dsignweek

greetings from the northlands :ablobwavereverse: (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡ #habibi #servus #helio25

Over the past months we have interviewed some of the people involved in the #ARDC, a series of #VMs hosted at the servus datacenter; we have also traced the history of #AMRO, Art Meets Radical Openness, and the general radical media art context in which #servus.at was born and still operates.

All this material is now collected in a fancy magazine called "Artists Running Data Centers", which we'll get fresh off the press tomorrow and present at STWST on Tuesday, December 17th at 7pm.

Abschiedsfahrt auf der Staudenbahn zwischen Gessertshausen und Markt Wald – BBG sagt „Servus“

#Staudenbahn #BBG #Abschiedsfahrt #Servus #Gessertshausen #MarktWald #Bayern

https://bahnblogstelle.com/206657/abschiedsfahrt-auf-der-staudenbahn-zwischen-gessertshausen-und-markt-wald-bbg-sagt-servus/

The Silicon Friend camp started and day 1 is going great...we have internet!

Today we had the chance to meet the 11 participants here with us on site and got in touch with the two remote ones.
After starting the works and a great dinner, we talk tonight about anthropomorphization, symbols and thinking machines.

#gosau #camp #austrian #alps #ai #neuralnetworks #anthropomorph #machines #worksession #servus #researchlab