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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116390683412196291

"10 calories of fossil hydrocarbons go into every calorie of food you eat" ...

' "half the nitrogen in your body has been thru an industrial reactor making synthetic fertilizer from fossil gas" '

#growYourOwn #allotment #gardening

Yawn? Sure. Best way to deal with #radical #anarchism. #guerillaGardening

⚔️ Alabaster Dawn hits Steam Early Access on May 7, Radical Fish Games drops you into the ruins of Tiran Sol. DIVE IN

You play as Juno, the Exiled Chosen: battle the entity Nix in fast-paced combat, build settlements, craft gear and tackle elaborate puzzles. The world shifts as you progress, unlocking new routes, the project is billed as a spiritual successor to CrossCode.

#SteamAndEpic #Alabaster #CrossCode #Radical #Access #Exiled

# Last week's top 7 albums
Missed last Monday, week before I was a few hours past Monday, and this week apparently #ListenBrainzMonday is #ListenBrainzThursday. Idc, I really like doing this so here goes. My top albums for the week of March 23-29, 2026 (last week).

List of albums and their artists in the alt text, with corrected album names. I either haven't found how to choose a specific release for a listen or it's not a feature yet, so when a song is on multiple albums sometimes it's not registered as the one I listened to.

Personal favorite artists this week:
- Limp Wrist
- Downtown Boys
- Dead City (Dead City Punx)

#limpwrist
#queercore #fagsfightback #queersbashback #smearthefear #notgayasinhappy #queerasinfuckyou

#downtownboys
#nychardcore #radical #politics #communism #labor #workingclass #proletariat #fuckthebosses

#deadcitypunx #deadcity
#lahardcore #illegalshows #gangster #barrio #mexican #spontaneousshows #graffiti

@ListenBrainz @musicbrainz

NO KINGS: Not Alone!

https://johnsworldblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/no-kings-not-alone/

🐎👞
🔥🔥🔥  🔥🔥🔥

"In times of uncertainty, extreme movements tend to simplify reality. Complex economic and social forces are reduced to a single explanation, and that explanation often takes the form of a #conspiracy. In the early twentieth century, #Jews were portrayed simultaneously as #capitalist #exploiters and #revolutionary #subversives. The contradiction did not matter. What mattered was that the narrative provided a target.

The same dynamic can be observed today, even if the language has changed. On the far right, traditional #antisemitic tropes have reemerged in the language of “#globalists,” financial #elites, and demographic #replacement. On parts of the #radical #left, #Israel and #Zionism are sometimes framed as the central expression of global #injustice, while Jews are portrayed as beneficiaries of systemic #oppression. The ideological frameworks differ, but the emotional structure is strikingly similar."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-the-far-left-and-far-right-meet-over-the-jews/

And finally the first video on The Fully Automated Board Game!!!
Here you can see the game for 2 to 4 players, with the rules in short. English subtitles. The video for the 5-10 players is in preparation :D

#theFullyAutomatedBoardGame #NoBoardGames #tutorial #tabletop #radical #gameplay

#StupidThinkUSA2026 "Year 2026 Ass-backwards Stupid thinking, Fox News Brain"
#BrainRotSociety47 "Brain Rot USA society"

"The Radical Left"

right-wing means Pro-King of #France
right-wing means Pro-King of #England
right-wing means science fiction magical baby #Jesus and #Moses outer-space messages from magical #PlanetEden
Founding Fathers were #Radical #FreeMasons #FreeMasonsRemedial