Under the guise of “cutting unnecessary red tape”, the European Commission proposed profound changes to the Union’s regulatory framework for the protection of personal data.
Based on the practices of eeefff — an artistic cooperation and made-up institution working across poetic computations and “infrastructures of imagination” — the lecture will focus on techno-politic-poetic imaginations and scenes of their unrolling.
Eleven international artistic positions address the ecological and social impacts of an extractive, profit-driven model of digitalisation, and illuminate the close entanglement of the climate and technology crises. Burnout not only settles in the individual body as a state of exhaustion, but it also accumulates, circulates and disperses into a shared climate that stretches across technical systems, social relations and ecological processes. What happens at the margins of exhaustion, where systems falter or refuse to fully cohere? Could spaces emerge for tentative forms of connection, alternative rhythms and practices that do not reproduce the extractive logic of burnout?
For its 2026 edition, AMRO presents Becoming Unreadable at Splace, a showcase in which participating artists engage with strategies of invisibility, unreadability, and digital self-determination as critical responses to the hyper-visibility enforced by AI systems and the growing alliance between big tech and conservative politics.
Two immersive installations by jiawen uffline and by Maja Bojanić and Brin Žvan from Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory blur nature's irrational forces with institutional critique and artivism. Both works invite visitors to participate in order to activate them. The exhibition explores ideas of communication and sustainability and creates a parallel realm where visitors gain agency.
Under the banner of “digital sovereignty,” significant investments are currently being directed toward digital infrastructure projects "made in Germany.” In this context, corporations are increasingly intervening in AI development, academia, and education, while invoking notions of national (digital) identity.
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What does it mean to "become unreadable" in the face of technofascistic and hyperindividualizing regimes? To read reality, read others that exist outside our bubbles, read other species and types, read realities beyond our radius, habitus, and syllabus.
What does it mean to "become unreadable" in the face of technofascistic and hyperindividualizing regimes? To read reality, read others that exist outside our bubbles, read other species and types, read realities beyond our radius, habitus, and syllabus.
Running your own communications infrastructure has obvious benefits.
The Framework of the "Democracy-Repaircafe" was already part of AMRO2016 to work on the idea of "liquid-autonomy" of Hans Christian Voigt. We are happy to be back again with a somehow follow up.
In this workshop, we aim to join forces to collectively mourn the landscapes being lost due to data center construction and explore ways to fight these thirsty data vampires and how to get rid of the Big Tech demons. We will actively engage with the construction site of the first Google data center in Austria, located in Kronstorf, to develop different forms of grieving and how to prevent future losses.
How can we protect our websites from data scraping by tech giants? Will AI crawlers erase the internet? How can we make the web a safer space for expressions? 'Greetings to AI Crawlers’ is a workshop exploring tactics and toolkits to deal with unwanted agents that abuse information on our web servers, making a lot of traffic. It invites everyone interested in the questions: how do we make the web safer, while keeping it DIY and personal, and how do we generate a (poetic) response to the machine.
Do you ever find yourself missing your old family computer? Was there ever a moment dedicated to remember and reminisce what it brought to your life? What does it mean to be dead digitally?
Building upon previous artworks around censorship, hiding, and erasure, this lecture performance extends these concerns into techniques for making materials difficult—or impossible—to read.
A new improvised modular synthesizer performance for AMRO 2026. This performance will be in opposition to the passifying nature of LLM-powered human-machine conversation.
In a sensitive play, guided by deep listening, focusing on sound for itself, Arnica Montana improvises and interacts with electronic modules which reply to her with unpredictability and high sensitiveness.
For this audiovisual performance, MSHR has designed a digital system that links visual and sonic parameters using open-source software.
Computers are music machines that bear the burden of heavy daily work in recording studios, artists' studios, and on stage.
Living pseudographics is the duo of Adel Faure on the visual side and Ralt144MI on the sound side. Their live-coded performances explore the theme of technological archiving, weaving intricate
3NCRYPT1NG SM1L3Y F4C3S is a live-coding performance in which unreadability is explored playfully.
Lil Data is the hyperpop live coding project of Manchester-born, Iceland-based musician and researcher Jack Armitage, a founding artist of the PC Music label whose production fingerprints can be heard on records by Charli XCX, Jónsi of Sigur Rós, and Danny L Harle's Harlecore project on Mad Decent. At AMRO, Lil Data performs a live-coded algorave set; music written and rewritten in real time, code projected for the audience to see, where the algorithm is the instrument, and the crash is part of the composition.
Pastagang is a radically open, creative group of people who make live music and visuals with code. Anyone can join Pastagang, which means that anyone can join the performance.
