Dear AMRO community,

we reach out through the AMRO newsletter for a quick catch–up.

 

in short:

+ we have a the date for AMRO26: 13th–16th May 2026!

+ we also have some funding uncertainties, but we will be back. consider supporting us with a membership!

+ join us in Linz this Ars Electronica Week at the Stadtwerkstatt program STWST84x11!
Especially on Saturday 6th September from 17:30, we will have a session :On Network Commons and Touring the Network::

see you!

 

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⊨ We have a the date for AMRO26: 13th–16th May 2026!

As simple as it is. We started the long journey to AMRO by deciding when it will happen: from 13th to 16th May 2026. Save the date and stay tuned: this time we aim at publishing our Call for Project earlier than usual.

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⊨ Funding uncertainties from Austrian Ministry for Culture.
Consider becoming servus member!

If you follow the servus.at main newsletter, you will probably already know this. The ministry (BWKKMS) has cut our 2025 annual program funding by 30%. Yes, the city of Linz gave us a long awaited funding rise (thanks!), however for how the funding distributed in our activities, it is the ministry that mostly support and influence AMRO.

We will have an appointment soon with the fund managers of the ministry to discuss the reasons for the budget cut and our future prospects. The outlook for 2026 however is generally not great, as everyone is talking about saving money and reducing resources (which, by the way, looks like the perfect ground for AI corporations to inject the system and ensure easy money in the future).

Our intention is to continue organize our Art Meets Radical Openness community festival, perhaps in a more compressed and focused form. We are actively looking for other forms of funding, hopefully there are news soon. However, if you have the capacity and the resources to support AMRO and servus, consider becoming a servus.at member. Membership not only provides access to our community and infrastructure, but also helps to make our operation less dependent on fluctuating political will. https://core.servus.at/en/member

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⊨ Join us this week at STWST84x11

This week in Linz, during the Ars Electronica Festival, servus.at / AMRO joins the program of its sister initiative Stadtwerkstatt: a new seven day format STWST84 // Fog Manifesto https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/

 

╚ We have contributions from the 2025 Art Meets Radical Openness Research Labs:

::Politics of Isolation Lab / Anna Kraher, Road to Futures Past::
https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/road_to_futures_past
> More context in the Versorgerin: https://versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/08-2025/a-meta-level-up-into-isolation

 

::Watery Networks Talks: Digital Waters / A Fluidic Cookbook / Coding Drops::
a radio show on water and computation with RL artists Ioana Vreme Moser & Diane Pricop and servus member Christina Gruber. The conversation will be aired on sunday on Radio FRO in the STWST84 radio program.
> Here the previous conversation on Fluidics with Ioana and Diane recorded during their AMRO residency in April. https://cba.media/720402
> Another talk from the Archive “From Cloudy Ecologies to Thirsty Datacenters: AMRO Research Lab 2019 Review” with Christina Gruber and Antonio Zingaro https://cba.fro.at/489462/

 

::On Network Commons and Touring the Network::
::Sat, 6th Sept from 17:30::

On the Maindeck, a conversation and a house tour about infrastructures, digital commons, and the constant labor and negotiations required within socio-technical networks.

 

╚ Further checks with the servus/AMRO community:

::Meet the fog:: https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/meet_the_fog
> Postcards against Chat Control / Tue, 2nd Sep, 17:00 collective writing and mailing session
> NØ School / Thu, 4th Sep, 17:00 / some no school hardware hacking style workshop, with Dasha Ilina & Benjamin Gaulon

::A DYI thread of Media Arts::
Check the the Red Thread from our neighbors of piksel.no https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/diy_thread

::In the Clouded Exhibition::
> Clarification [Black Lotus XIII] by /g/o/d/ \Pamela Neuwirth \Harald Purrer https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/clarification_black_lotus_xiii
> Lost in the Sauce (Illusions in the Fog) by Sarah GHP https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/lost_in_the_sauce_illusions_in_the_fog

::Nebel Kegeln Fri 5th & Sat 6th September::
Not to miss the Fog Bowling/Nebel Kegeln from the stwst! https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/nebelkegeln

 

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That was it. have a great september!


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Art Meets Radical Openness - Newsletter

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.

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