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AMRO24 Dancing at the Crossroads

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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.

AMRO22 Debug

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AMRO 2022 focused on the potential of debugging both inside and outside of the purely technical realm. (Software) bugs are much more than simple technical errors. Under certain circumstances, they can be seen as one of the fundamental features of the current age characterized by ubiquitous technologies and power structures. Are cultural practices of debugging and fixing bugs within free open source communities transferable to socio-political challenges? #AMRO22 offered space for sharing knowledge and practices, focusing on the potential of debugging both inside and outside of the purely technical realm.

AMRO Research Labs 2021

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The Research Lab 2021 was structured in parallel sessions dealing with the topics of AI, smart assistants and in general the ways we communicating with computers; how we develop intimacy and relations over these networks; and how to try remediate the environmental pollution caused by human activities, technological developments and industrial production.

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Of Whirlpools and Tornadoes
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The 2020 edition of the AMRO festival is characterized by reflections upon the “centripetal” and “centrifugal” dynamics of acceleration visible in contemporary society and the ways artistic practice, activism and radical thinking can engage with it. How much more digital do we need to be, when we consider that every cloud is a server farm wasting considerable amounts of energy, water, fresh air and raw materials?

2019 - Art Meets Radical Openness Research Lab

Thirsty Data-center: on the rhetorics of digital waters
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2019-2020 participants of the Research Lab are the media artist and freshwater ecologist Christina Gruber and the multimedia artist and Internet hack activist Antonio Zingaro. They will work with servus.at curator Davide Bevilacqua and the servus.at community on the environmental impacts of the Internet infrastructure and the “green” trends that are emerging in the marketing strategies of the largest Internet companies.

2018 – Art Meets Radical Openness (#AMRO18)

Unmapping Infrastructures
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AMRO - Art Meets Radical Openness 2016, Linz Festival Dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture Unmapping Infrastructures 16.05-19.05.2018 The 2018 issue of AMRO “Unmapping Infrastructures” deals with the idea of “mapping” as a process of becoming aware and then acquiring a critical position about the current landscape of technological infrastructures.

Research Labs 2017

Hic Svnt Dracones // Social Bots - automated opinion making of the 21st century
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In the course of 2017, servus.at Research Lab had two main directions of research: mapping and digital cartography, and Social Bots & AI.

2016 - Art Meets Radical Openness (#AMRO16)

Waste(d)!
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The 2016 festival under the topic “Waste(d)!” was devoted to aspects of the conditions of our digital infosphere that are increasingly perceived as complex. The act of saving, deleting, or resurfacing data and information has taken on a life of its own, is monitored, monetized and waste valuable natural resources. What is the cultural, social, philosophical, ecological, and economic significance of producing, saving, deleting, and resurfacing data?

2015 - Art Meets Radical Openness Research Lab

Behind the Smart World
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For most of us consumers electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, notebooks, printers or microwaves are a fundamental and indispensable parts of our daily lives. As a result of rapid growth and constant innovation the electronic industry is the world’s fastest growing industry. The “Internet of things” is increasingly adding electronic devices onto our shopping list. Devices that are adding up to a 24h surveillance system that are tracking every aspect of our life and are containers for private data.

2014 - Art Meets Radical Openness (#AMRO14)

Autonomy (im)possible?
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Which methods and alternative tools are used to generate new views of everyday life, work, money, politics and the environment, and to instigate a new cultural practice, to impel civil society processes, without them being nipped in the bud? How do creative actors contribute to the process of change and which new forms of cooperation do they enter into?

LiWoLi 2013 - canceled

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As a result of a 43% funding cut by the Austrian federal government for servus.at, 2013 LiWoLi festival had to be canceled. With the great support and interest of the Art University, servus.at developed "LiWoLi - Art Meets Radical Openness" into a bustling art festival over the past five years. Reaching the tipping point, where international attention for the festival became noticeable, servus.at - the main host - is surprised by a dramatic cut in funding and has to cancel the event for 2013. The future is uncertain, but of course we hope for LiWoLi 2014.

2012 - Art meets radical openness (AMRO12)

swarm, perform, explore – How to sense the City?
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LiWoLi is a community festival, open lab and annual meeting spot for artists, educators and developers using and creating Free Software (FLOSS), Open Hardware and Open Design in the artistic and cultural context. This event is all about sharing artistic skills, code and knowledge within the public domain and discussing the challenges of an open practice. 2012 edition had a special focus on artworks that can be created, performed or exhibited outdoors and in public space.

LiWoLi 2011 - Art Meets Radical Openness

Observing, comparing, reflecting, imitating, testing, combining
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12th - 14th of May 2011 LiWoLi is an open lab and meeting spot for artists, developers and educators using and creating FLOSS (free/libre open source software) and Open Hardware in the artistic and cultural context. LiWoLi is all about sharing skills, code and knowledge within the public domain and discussing the challenges of open practice. This year's event offers an exhibition, artists' workshops and – like every year – lectures, presentations and sound-performances.

LiWoLi 2010

The Art of „doing it together“ (DIT)
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With the development and use of free and Open-Source software and hardware, the cultural practice of DIY (do-it-yourself) emerges. DIY often means, for those who practice it, seeing oneself as a believer and one’s own strength as a driving force for change. LiWoLi raises the question of whether a practice of "doing it together" (DIT) might be a more effective approach to developing free and open-source software (FLOSS) tools for art & culture, learning & teaching. This also implies examining the motivation of active producers and making room for the aspect of "unpaid work".

LiWoLi 2009

"Art Meets Radical Openness" - hacklab for art and open source
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23rd - 25th of April 2009, Liwoli 2009 is a three-day Hacklab and an open invitation to all who would like to discover more about, and participate in, an active process of learning, producing, and sharing in the areas of Free/Libre Open Source Software. FLOSS developers, artists, and programmers, such as the collective GOTO10 and activists from HAIP (Hack Act Interact Progress), among others, form the basis of the event and share their knowledge through workshops, hacklabs, presentations, installations, and performances.