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?
Digital Independence Day
Willy*Fred, Sunday, May 3 at 02:00 PM GMT+2
Wo möchtest du anfangen? Von Whatsapp auf Signal, von Gmail zu einem ethischen Emailprovider wechseln? Linux installieren? Willst du erfahren, was das Fediverse ist und wie du mitmachen kannst? Suchst du alternative Software für bestimmte Bereiche?
Es wird zunehmend klar, dass die Abhängigkeit von US Big Tech nicht nur uns persönlich schadet, sondern auch unserer Gesellschaft und Umwelt. Um diese Abhängigkeit zu verringern, begehen wir monatlich den Digital Independence Day: https://di.day
Am Sonntag, 3. Mai 2026, sind wir ab 14:00 im Willy*Fred Gassenlokal, Graben 3 um den Wechsel von Big Tech in Richtung demokratiefreundlicher digitaler Alternativen gemeinsam, Schritt fur Schritt anzufangen. Kommt mit, bring Freund*innen mit, und wir gehen gemeinsam die ersten Schritte!
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
Servus: Rails 애플리케이션을 위한 표준화된 서비스 객체 패턴 라이브러리
Servus는 Rails 애플리케이션에서 비즈니스 로직을 분리하기 위해 일관된 인터페이스와 구조를 제공하는 서비스 객체 전용 젬이다.
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
Digital Independence Day
/dev/lol Hackerspace, Sunday, April 5 at 02:00 PM GMT+2
On April 5th DiDay in Linz will be hosted by /dev/lol in cooperation with servus.at.
During Digital Independence Day we offer help in getting away from big tech to more democratic alternatives. This includes free open source software and operating systems, as well as decentralized online services.
Am 5. April wird der DiDay in Linz vom /dev/lol in Kooperation mit servus.at veranstaltet.
Während dem Digitalen Unabhängigkeitstag bieten wir Hilfe an, von Big Tech zu demokratischeren Alternativen zu wechseln. Dies beinhaltet Freie Open Source Software und Betriebsysteme sowie dezentralisierte Online Services.
https://kulturkarte.servus.at/event/digital-independence-day-1
AI Cafe #3: Their Machines, their Rules? - Legality, Rights and Accountability in Algorithmic Society // with Kristina Tica, Raphael Albert & Joaquín Santuber
servus clubraum, Thursday, March 26 at 06:00 PM GMT+1
AI Cafe #3
Their Machines, their Rules? - Legality, Rights and Accountability in Algorithmic Society
with Kristina Tica, Raphael Albert & Joaquín Santuber
This third appointment in the series of the AI Cafés looks at algorithms, machine learning and AI and their impact on personal data, as well as the responsibility over automatic decision making processes. The participants will address AI Act and Digital Omnibus, current attempts of european institutions to regulate the industry around AI and yet leave enough room for economic activity. Raphael Albert will discuss how generative models interfere with our fundamental right to digital privacy and whether the current legal framework on data protection provides sufficient protection against such interference. Kristina Tica and Joaquín Santuber will provide insights into understanding the concept of Human Oversight, as introduced in Article 14 of the EU AI Act. The critique of this act focuses on the ambiguity and limitations of human decision-making and agency in overseeing, controlling, and intervening in high-risk AI systems, which can affect fundamental rights. Her approach comes from media arts, where along Joaquín Santuber, they developed an interactive artwork HUMAN OVERS[A]IGHT: THE OPS ROOM.
About
Kristina Tica is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, with most recent practice centred on the artistic and theoretical exploration of the aesthetics and ethics of machine learning applications in visual computational processes. Currently pursuing her practical and theoretical PhD research at the intersection of critical AI, computational image and its aesth-ethics, media theory and law, between the Department of Media Theory at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) Vienna and the Metaverse Lab [LIFT_C] at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. https://ticakristina.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ticakristina
Raphael Albert is a digital privacy professional, advocate, and activist based in Linz, Austria. Coming from a background in law and economics, he began working on privacy-related issues in 2018. Since then, he has worked in different settings and filled different roles. Of his many roles, he had always liked those the most which allowed him to share what he has learned about protecting our digital privacy with others. To focus on sharing knowledge and outreach, he started PRIVACY MINDED in 2023.
Joaquín Santuber is a lawyer and obtained his PhD in Design and IT-Systems from the Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Germany on the topic of designing for digital justice. As a research group lead of Metaverse Lab at the LIFT_C, JKU Linz, he works with art-based and design approaches to legality in digital environments, as well as critical approaches to public and judicial innovation.
*The AI Café is part of the cooperation “Critical digitization for art and culture / Theater Phoenix x servus.at”, which is realized within the project "KI im Theater Phönix" funded through the program "KI in der Kunst und Kultur". During the project, database-supported, automated, and algorithmic processes in theater operations are being explored. The project combines a critical examination of AI systems with their actual application in daily workflows. Part of the project, “AI Café” – a public event series in which different experiences and approaches to AI in cultural production are collected and discussed.
Cover image © Daniela Zampieri / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Digital Independence Day
servus clubraum, Sunday, March 1 at 03:00 PM GMT+1
Es wird zunehmend klar, dass die Abhängigkeit von US Big Tech nicht nur uns persönlich schadet, sondern auch unsere Gesellschaft und die Umwelt. Um diese Abhängigkeit zu verringern, schließt sich servus.at dem Digital Independence Day an: https://di.day
Am Sonntag, 1. März 2026, treffen wir uns um 15:00 im servus Clubraum (Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz, 1. Stock), um den Wechsel von Big Tech richtung demokratiefreundlichen digitalen Alternativen gemeinsam, Schritt für Schritt anzufangen.
Wo möchtest du anfangen? Von Whatsapp auf Signal, von Gmail zu einem ethischen Emailprovider wechseln? Linux installieren? Willst du erfahren, was das Fedivers ist und wie du mitmachen kannst? Suchst du alternative Software für bestimmte Bereiche?
Komme einfach vorbei, bringe Freund*innen mit, und wir fangen gemeinsam mit den ersten Schritten an.
It is increasingly obvious that dependency on US Big Tech harms us not only personally, but also harms our society and our environment. To help reduce this dependency, servus.at joins the Digital Independence Day: https://di.day
On Sunday, 1 March 2026, we will meet at 3 p.m. in the servus Clubraum (Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz, 1st floor) to begin the switch from Big Tech to democracy-aligned digital alternatives together, step by step.
Where would you like to start? By switching from Whatsapp to Signal or from Gmail to an ethical email provider? By installing Linux? Do you want to find out what the Fediverse is and how you can join? Are you looking for alternative software for certain tasks?
Come by and join us, bring your friends, and we will start taking the first steps together.
https://kulturkarte.servus.at/event/digital-independence-day
Sourdough#4 (Workshop)
servus clubraum, Friday, January 30 at 04:00 PM GMT+1
DE
Sourdough #4 (Workshop)
Stolpern und Stürzen! Stadt-Narrativen hinterfragen
mit Karli Raber und Mika Bankomat von F.I.S.T.
::Wann:: Fr., 30.Jan. // 16:00–19:00
::Wo:: servus.at Clubraum, c/o Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz
Ausgehend von dem vom Verein F.I.S.T. 2025 konzipierten Stadtspaziergang STOLPERN https://fist.servus.at/projekte/stolpern/ wird in diesem Workshop zur gemeinsamen kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit der Stadtgeschichte von Linz eingeladen.
Das Projekt STOLPERN und der dazugehörige Stadtspaziergang kontextualisierten Denkmäler und Orte in Linz neu, klärten über NS Bezüge auf, verwiesen auf antisemitische, rassistische und/oder völkischen Inhalte und zeigten patriarchale Inhalte auf, die sich über die Zeit in der Stadt in Stein formiert haben. Bestehende Denkmäler, die von einer faschistischen und patriarchalen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart erzählen, standen jenen Denkmälern gegenüber, die es noch nicht gibt und deren Grundzüge durch performative Skizzen gezogen wurden.
F.I.S.T. lädt ein in diesem Workshop gemeinsam über Orte, Erinnerungskultur und Strukturen der Stadt Linz zu stolpern und über einstürzende Narrative und spekulative Neubesetzungen zu diskutieren. Ausgehend von individuellen Perspektiven auf die Stadt, imaginieren wir Entwürfe für neue Denkmäler, sprechen über Recherchearbeit und versuchen Strategien des Stürzens zu.
BIOs
F.I.S.T. ist ein Verein aus Linz, der einem intersektionalen queer-feministischen Verständnis folgt und sich dabei als kapitalismuskritisch und antifaschistisch begreift. Seit 2023 ist F.I.S.T. in Linz aktiv und konzipiert und organisiert dort Veranstaltungen im Bereich gesellschaftspolitischer Bildung mit einer Zielsetzung, den gesellschaftlichen Diskurs und Austausch für queerfeministische Themen zu fördern und die gesellschaftliche Transformation hin zu einer gleichberechtigten Gesellschaft voranzutreiben.
Feminist intersectional society terror!
Der Workshop wird geleitet von:
Karli Raber
Karli Raber forscht zu gesellschaftlichen Machtstrukturen und deren Verkörperung - an der Uni, beim Tanzen und als Teil verschiedener queerfeministischer Kollektive.
Mika Bankomat
Mika Bankomat ist als Kritiker*in der (kulturellen) Strukturen der Stadt Linz aktiv. Momente des Scheiterns und der Irritation als künstlerische Strategie nutzend, versucht Mika Fragen zu stellen und Antworten zu provozieren. Mikas eigene Arbeiten sind auditive Annäherungen an Soundstrukturen und prüfen diese auf ihre politische Schlagkraft. Mit einem musikalischen Fokus auf Disharmonie, Antimusik, Noise und Verwirrung ist Mika in verschiedenen Gruppierungen und solo aktiv.
Workshop hauptsächlich in deutscher Sprache.
Hier anmelden >> https://umfrage.servus.at/index.php/394931?lang=de
EN
Sourdough #4 (Workshop)
Stumbling and Falling! Questioning City Narratives.
with Karli Raber and Mika Bankomat from F.I.S.T.
::When:: Fri., Jan 30 // 16:00–19:00
::Where:: servus.at Clubraum, c/o Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz servus' Clubraum c/o Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz
Based on the city walk STOLPERN conceived by the association F.I.S.T. in 2025 (https://fist.servus.at/projekte/stolpern/), this workshop invites participants to engage in a joint critical reflection on the urban history of Linz.
The STOLPERN project and its associated city walk recontextualized monuments and locations in Linz, clarified their Nazi-era connections, pointed out antisemitic, racist, and/or ethnic-nationalist content, and highlighted patriarchal content that has solidified in the city over time. Existing monuments, which tell stories of a fascist and patriarchal past and present, were contrasted with monuments that do not yet exist, whose outlines were sketched through performative exercises.
F.I.S.T. invites participants in this workshop to stumble together over places, memory culture, and the structures of the city of Linz, and to discuss collapsing narratives and speculative reappropriations. Starting from individual perspectives on the city, we will imagine designs for new monuments, talk about research work, and explore strategies of falling.
BIOs
F.I.S.T. is an association from Linz that follows an intersectional queer-feminist understanding and positions itself as anti-capitalist and anti-fascist. Since 2023, F.I.S.T. has been active in Linz, designing and organizing events in the field of socio-political education, aiming to promote social discourse and exchange on queer-feminist topics and to advance societal transformation toward an equitable society.
Feminist intersectional society terror!
The workshop is led by:
Karli Raber
Karli Raber researches social power structures and their embodiment—at the university, while dancing, and as part of various queer-feminist collectives.
Mika Bankomat
Mika Bankomat is active as a critic of the (cultural) structures of the city of Linz. Using moments of failure and irritation as an artistic strategy, Mika attempts to ask questions and provoke answers. Mika’s own work consists of auditory approaches to sound structures, testing them for their political impact. With a musical focus on disharmony, anti-music, noise, and confusion, Mika is active both in groups and solo.
The workshop will be conducted mainly in German.
Register here >> https://umfrage.servus.at/index.php/394931?lang=en
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