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AMRO Newsletter #1: Programme out!

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AMRO26 – Becoming Unreadable
13th–16th May 2026, Linz (AT)
Pre-opening: 12th May

afo – architekturforum oberösterreich, Stadtwerkstatt, Kunstuniversität Linz, MAERZ, bb15 and more…

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Dear Community,

servus.at - kunst & kultur im netz is happy to share first insights into AMRO26 – Art Meets Radical Openness, taking place from May 13th to 16th 2026 in Linz (with a pre-opening on May 12th).

Since 2008, AMRO brings together artists, activists, developers, and researchers working with open cultures and collective practices. The 2026 edition continues this exchange across a four-day programme of talks, workshops, performances, and exhibitions.

#AMRO26’s theme is “Becoming Unreadable”.
The festival reflects on growing demands for visibility in digital systems and explores artistic and technological strategies that resist surveillance, data extraction, and control. It asks how unreadability, opacity, and withdrawal can become tools for autonomy and self-determination.

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Programme Overview:

12. May - Pre-opening

18:30 / SPLACE / Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz 6
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13. May - Festival 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 – Nightline

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.
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17. May: Beyond-festival

"Grieving a landscape" – Field Trip to a Google data center construction site
with Christina Gruber

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Exhibitions:

“From the Ashes of the Burnout Machines” (MAERZ)

Exploring the links between digital infrastructures, ecological crisis, and extractive economies while pointing toward practices of resistance and regeneration.
→ Opening: 13 May

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
Curated by Davide Bevilacqua, Arianna Forte, Noemi Garay, Lara Mejač, Diane Pricop.

“Decay and Desire” (bb15 – space for contemporary art)

Immersive installations engaging with sustainability, participation, and techno-ecological environments.
→ Opening & tour: 14 May

Exhibiting artists: Maja Bojanić & Brin Žvan, jiawen uffline
Cooperation with: bb15 – space for contemporary art & Ljudmila – Digital Media Lab

“Becoming Unreadable” (SPLACE, Kunstuniversität Linz)

A showcase exhibition on invisibility, AI-ideologies and visibility regimes, digital self-determination, autonomy and independence, and device obsolescence.
→ Opening: 12 May

Exhibiting artists: a/o (Anna Watzinger & Olivia Jaques), Zelda Diedrich, Anna Kraher, Juli Laczko,Valie Messini, jiawen uffline

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More info: https://radical-openness.org

AMRO26 events are free of charge, but you can support the festival by purchasing a supporter ticket here: https://kupfticket.com/en/events/amro26-supporter-ticket

your AMRO team!

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Funded by Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Kulturland Oberösterreich, & Linz Kultur

Main sponsors: LINZ AG & Arte Hotel Linz

Partners & supporters: afo – architekturforum oberösterreich, Kunstuniversität Linz (Time-Based Media & Visual Communication), MAERZ Künstler- und Künstlerinnenvereinigung, STWST, bb15 – space for contemporary art, /dev/lol, DH5, Raumschiff, Willy*fred, Theater Phönix, Radio FRO, dorfTV, Ljudmila – Digital Media Lab, XPUB/Piet Zwart Institute, Obsolete Studio and many more!