AMRO26
Becoming Unreadable
13th–16th May 2026
Festival dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture
Art Meets Radical Openness is a biennial community festival for art, hacktivism and open cultures. 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: 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, 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.
See open call text: https://radical-openness.org/en/content/amro26-call-participation
Programme Overview
> 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.
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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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Tickets
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.
Cooperations & Festival locations:
AMRO is organised by servus.at in cooperation with Kunstuniversität Linz - University of Art and Design Linz, Departments of Time-Based Media & Visual Communication, and through many partners from the community.
Main festival location: afo architekturforum oberösterreich.
The festival program takes place at STWST, bb15 – Space for Contemporary Art, MAERZ, DH5, /dev/lol – Developer Lab of Linz, Willy*fred.
General info for visiting AMRO 2026:
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Follow us
We use our Mastodon account @servus@social.servus.at to activate the community during the festival.
Further info also in the AMRO newsletter:
To know more about our quest for radical openness, visit the archive↗ of the past editions and the research labs↗.