The 2026 edition ‘Becoming Unreadable’ engages with invisibility, unreadability, ungovernability, and uncomputability as strategies for resisting current tendencies of our networked times. AMRO26 aims at challenging the common understanding of AI, networks and computers, and through its programme, it explores approaches that offer real change: feminist IT and community-centered technologies, data center resistance, radical imagination of autonomy and conviviality, till de-computing, de-networking, de-scaling and de-platforming ourselves.

'Becoming Unreadable' involves evading surveillance by oligarchic tech corporations, operating under the radar, and refusing to comply with 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 other and being together as humans. More on the festival topic ↗