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

Happy to share that our project compost.cc will have its first presentation in the Future Territories exhibition at Das Lot in Vienna on May 7–10

https://en.lot.wien/futureterritories

We'll run a Bring-Your-Own-Device workshop on Saturday 9 at 3pm. If you are in Vienna and have a spare device (an old computer, laptop, Android tablet or cell phone), join us and walk out running your own compost.cc node.

#Permacomputing #DigitalCommons #Infrastructure #MediaArts #DigitalHumanities #MediaTheory

Decay and Desire / bb15 x AMRO / Exhibition Opening & Artist Guided Tour

bb15 – space for contemporary art, Thursday, May 14 at 05:00 PM GMT+2

Decay and Desire
bb15 x AMRO Festival

The exhibition is part of AMRO26 - Art Meets Radical Openness Festival, which will take place in Linz from 13 to 16 May 2026.

Exhibition Opening & Artist Guided Tour on Thursday 14th May at 17:00
(Soft opening 14th May at 10:00)
Opening hours: 14. – 16. Mai 2026 | (Opening hours: Everyday, 10:00-19:00)

18. – 22. Mai 2026 | (Opening hours: Tue-Sat, 15:00-18:00)

Two immersive installations by jiawen uffline and by Maja Bojanić and Brin Žvan from Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory blur nature's irrational forces with institutional critique and artivism. Both works invite visitors to participate in order to activate them. The exhibition explores ideas of communication and sustainability and create a parallel realm where visitors gain agency.

The works in the exhibition connect questions of interaction, maintenance and yearning with nature as medium, as channel of transmission, and as a site through which existing structures can be transferred into subversive and irrational forms.

Exhibiting artists: Maja Bojanić and Brin Žvan (Ljudmila) & jiawen uffline
jiawen uffline [https://worrymetaphor.net/]
Ljudmila, Art and Science Laboratory [wiki.ljudmila.org]


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AMRO programme: https://radical-openness.org
"Decay and Desire" in AMRO programme https://radical-openness.org/en/programm/2026/decay-and-desire

https://kulturkarte.servus.at/event/decay-and-desire-bb15-x-amro-exhibition-opening-and-artist-guided-tour

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

We have a new website! Please check it out and let us know what you think — more news coming soon

https://compost.cc

#permacomputing #archives #digitalcommons #infrastructures #mediaarts #digitalhumanities #mediatheory

RE: https://genart.social/@sableraph/116267926423859970

Can’t believe it: @processing turns 25 this year!

If #Processing has changed your life course, as it has mine, consider organizing a Processing Community Day event in your town this October:

https://discourse.processing.org/t/pcd-worldwide-2026-call-for-organizers/48081

#CreativeCode #MediaArts #education

Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory by Richard Rinehart, Jon Ippolito

https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3334

#neuralarchive #neuralmag #digitalarchives #mediahistory #mediaarthistory #mediaarchaeology #digitalpioneers #digitalheritage #obsoletetech #deadmedia #digitalpreservation #mediainstallation #timebasedart #newmediaart #mediaart #mediaarts #audiovisualart #audiovisuals #interactiveinstallation #interactiveart #digitalart #informationart #transmedia #softwareart #artsciencetechnology #netart #internetart #digitalcultures #analoganddigital #analoguedigital

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

Job Alert

Part-Time Lecturer – Videography & Sound Design (f/m/d)

Deadline: open until filled 
Location: Austria - St. Pölten 

https://www.academiceurope.com/ads/part-time-lecturer-videography-sound-design-f-m-d/ 

#hiring #lecturer #Teaching #Videography #SoundDesign #AudioVisual #CreativeMedia #artisticresearch #Mediaarts