infos will be published: https://radical-openness.org

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.

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, to which the AMRO community reacts with artistic research and provocations.

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 researched the emergence of social bots as tools to manipulate opinions; to the very low tech processes behind the smart world; to digital waters and the evironmental impact of digital technologies; till conversational AIs and experimental programming languages.

Do you want to know more about AMRO?

explore the festival archive: https://www.radical-openness.org/en/archive
read about the festival history: https://www.radical-openness.org/en/historyroots
check out the current research labs: https://research.radical-openness.org
get to know also the rest of the activities from https://core.servus.at/ and its community of members https://galaxy.servus.at/map

You can also stay updated following our newsletter https://www.radical-openness.org/en/newsletter-subscribe & follow #amro hashtag on the fediverse.