Programme 2026
10:00 – 19:00
Decay and Desire
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.
From the Ashes of the Burnout Machines
10:00 – 11:00
Scenes of partisan technologies, collective intelligences, algosomatics
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
Fodder for the machine – The European Commission’s plans to facilitate building generative models on our data without our consent (and why we should stop them)
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.
11:15 – 13:00
institutionalising the developement of democracy (and political structures)
"> Do we need a shared understanding of democracy as a society? > Would such an understanding help us work for peace and against polarization? > And how would we get there?
The Plot is on Fire – Becoming unreadable whilst cultivating our capacity to read
This presentation and workshop explore not just what it means to become unreadable in the face of technofascistic and hyperindividualizing regimes, but also what it may mean to cultivate our lively
14:00 – 17:00
Democray-Repaircafe on Institutionalising Democratic Developement
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.
Landscape Grief Camp – collective protest-ritual-spell development session
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 t
Greetings to AI Crawlers
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?
The Plot is on Fire – Becoming unreadable whilst cultivating our capacity to read
This presentation and workshop explore not just what it means to become unreadable in the face of technofascistic and hyperindividualizing regimes, but also what it may mean to cultivate our lively
Low-profile and low-energy autonomous networking with Reticulum
Running your own communications infrastructure has obvious benefits.
16:30 – 18:00
RESURRECTION
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?
18:00 – 19:00
Performance: The Poetics of the Unreadable
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.
21:00 – 02:00
Network Entity
For this audiovisual performance, MSHR has designed a digital system that links visual and sonic parameters using open-source software.
Can Algorithms Fly
Computers are music machines that bear the burden of heavy daily work in recording studios, artists' studios, and on stage.
Lament
“Lament” is a performance for mourning in public. It is a space for processing the destruction caused by Big Ideas.
Live Performance by Arnica Montana
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 sensit
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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.
3NCRYPT1NG SM1L3Y F4C3S
3NCRYPT1NG SM1L3Y F4C3S is a live-coding performance in which unreadability is explored playfully.
Living pseudographics
Living pseudographics is the duo of Adel Faure on the visual side and Ralt144MI on the sound side.
unchattering
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.