AMRO24 Dancing at the Crossroads
AMRO24
8-11th May 2024
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.
Dancing at the Crossroads – is in the Making
At the crossroads of the current complex multi-crisis, we observe how digital technologies are deeply intertwined with the rising impact of climate collapse, individual burnout, outbreaks of war, colonial oppression and violence, strengthening nationalism and rising fascism.
For its 10th edition "Dancing at the Crossroads", AMRO has invited its community of artists and technologists, activists and developers to contribute with works of protest and dissent against the normative, extractive and anti-social technological mainstream. We aim to explore forms of computational degrowth and the principles of permacomputing, and to address the consequences of a perhaps resistible rise of total AI.
In an increasingly extractive technological condition, with the approaching signals of climate catastrophe in mind, we dance at the crossroads, oscillating between all possible states and conditions, occupying both roads, creating space for imagining alternatives, and aiming to reseed forms of resistance.
Program Overview
7th May 2024, 18:30
exhibition opening at Maerz Galerie & bb15 – space for contemporary art
8th May 2024, 19:00
festival opening & keynotes at afo – architekturforum oberösterreich
9th–11th May, 10:00–00+
lectures, concerts, workshops, exhibitions, nightline
We are currently developing our festival program, which we will publish online soon!
https://art-meets.radical-openness.org/2024/
Cooperations & festival locations:
Kunstuniversität Linz, Department of Time-based Media, afo – architekturforum oberösterreich, STWST, bb15 – Space for Contemporary Art, MAERZ, dh5, /dev/lol – Developer Lab of Linz, and many more parners
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To know more about our quest to radical openness, visit the archive↗ of the past editions and the research labs↗.