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AMRO20 is 100% Digital
All Events Will Be Streamed ONLINE
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For WORKSHOPS please make sure to REGISTER to reserve a spot.
For TALKS & CONFERENCE events please head over to CONFERENCE.
For NIGHTLINE events please head over to the MAINSTAGE.
Please use the SIDEBAR on the right ⇥ to jump to specific sections of the day.
CONFERENCES
19:00 — 19:30
meet&greet
Welcome
AMRO 2020
Welcome everyone! Our remote festival finally starts, we are happy to have you here!
19:30 — 20:10
conversation
Intimacy and Its (Technological) Discontents: 3 Theses While Social Distancing
Nishant Shah, Us(c)hi Reiter, Valie Djordjevic
The most famous critique of social distancing started in anthropology circles once we had officially entered the Age of the Novel Corona Virus. We are just ‘physically distancing’, these critics said, not ‘socially distant’.
20:20 — 20:40
lecture
Living in Electric Fields — 5G Environments are invisible
Birgit Schneider
Digitalization will come" - this is the mantra of our society. In recent decades the atmosphere of the city has changed drastically. The environment has been transformed into a high-frequency electromagnetic field by the increasing number of antennas. In my talk, I will use examples from art and technology to speculate on how the change in urban space and atmospheres can be grasped, but also why 5G is a perfect case for techno-criticism and conspirancy theories alike.
20:40 — 21:00
lecture
Tales of the Rare Earth — Deep Time and Deep Futures in the Arts
Erich Berger
Deep time is understood as the concept behind geological time: the history of the earth from its beginnings as a molten ball of matter until the present. Deep futures do not yet exist, they are a thought-vehicle to speculate within the probability space of a future earth.
21:30 — 22:00
guided tour
Exhibition Opening Tour
Davide Bevilacqua, Sai Bao & Yang Mu
Part of the opening night, also this years Exhibition "Lost in a garden of clouds" will open with a "tour". This will be done through a short conversation with the two exhibition designers Sai Bao and Yang Mu.
See you at the buffet for a drink.
See you at the buffet for a drink.
NIGHTLINE
22:00 — 22:20
performance
< -- TEATRISE ON SEARCH QUERIES & OTHER FORMS OF MOVING -- >
Joana Chicau
A live coding performance in online environments driven by choreographic scores -- bringing new meanings and producing new imaginaries around the acts of coding.
22:20 — 23:20
performance
gunship collider — netlabel dance mix
Dominik Leitner
Music from when the internet was still the Wild Wild Web. Before the monopolies took over, and streaming platforms became the norm, netlabels where doing invaluable work.
23:20 — 00:00
performance
Heavy Lifting
Heavy Lifting
Scrambled samples, seasick beats, and acid basslines beamed over the internet and into your ears. 150 bpm cyclic patterns live coded using TidalCycles.
EXHIBITION
ALL DAY
exhibition
Lost in a Garden of Clouds
Sai Bao & Yang Mu, Heath Bunting, FRAUD, César Escudero Andaluz, Joana Moll, Marloes de Valk, Christina Gruber, Malte Steiner , Eva-Maria Lopez, Mathieu Zurstrassen, KairUs, Franz Xaver, Nikola Brabcova, Michal Klodner, Rihards Vitols, Simon Weckert
AMRO20 exhibition was transformed into a journey through artistic projects dealing with the festival topic "Of Whirlpools and Tornadoes". As the festival became "radically digital", these projects were kind of lost in a garden of clouds. That became the title of the show.
Exhibition design curated by artist duo Sai Bao and Yang Mu.
Exhibition design curated by artist duo Sai Bao and Yang Mu.
PATIO EVENTS
20:20 — 20:21
performance
One Minute Room
bb15 feat. gg
A TEXT-SCORE open for collaboration, to be performed at bb15 in Linz, Austria at 20:20, from 20.05—23.05. Each action is recorded and played back the next day, by the sound installation "Minute/Year" by Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty.
ALL DAY
various
Patio Events
Community feat. Various Artists
This years digital AMRO20 edition offers experimental sessions for you to enjoy a full festival experience and not get overwhelmed by talks, workshops and performances. Head over to our PATIO and meet others for a quick constructive break.
LIGHTNING TALKS
11:00 — 11:15
talk
Close to the Water
Rob La Frenais
The development of fast, light boats for the sport of rowing follows a parallel path with the history of capitalism, with, for example the development of faster and faster sailing clippers to beat the opposition to the market. As Virillio said “The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck”.
In this digital contribution, Rob will fragment some images and texts from a community project he is developing called ‘Wild Rowing’ and intersperse these with video clips from a live performance of "Close To The Water" in 2018.
In this digital contribution, Rob will fragment some images and texts from a community project he is developing called ‘Wild Rowing’ and intersperse these with video clips from a live performance of "Close To The Water" in 2018.
11:15 — 11:35
talk
99 Smartphones But a Hack Ain't One
Simon Weckert
99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic.
11:35 — 11:50
talk
I Never Promised You a Green Garden
Eva-Maria Lopez
In her artwork, Eva-Maria Lopez maps the changes in vegetation and plants in urban areas or in living rooms to record the loss of biodiversity and the agrochemical industry’s promises of a ‘better world’.
In her projects, Eva-Maria addresses the backstage of the ‘green business’ by subverting the marketing concepts of agrochemical companies and using their logos for ornaments: These ornamental designs look quite harmless and decorative, since they have similarities with motifs in folk art and mandalas – until one becomes aware that each single motif in this series consists of logos from companies that produce or sell glyphosate, or genetically modified plants.
In her projects, Eva-Maria addresses the backstage of the ‘green business’ by subverting the marketing concepts of agrochemical companies and using their logos for ornaments: These ornamental designs look quite harmless and decorative, since they have similarities with motifs in folk art and mandalas – until one becomes aware that each single motif in this series consists of logos from companies that produce or sell glyphosate, or genetically modified plants.
11:50 — 12:10
talk
SOS as Self Organising System
An XR Austria participant
Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that uses non-violent civil disobedience in an attempt to halt mass extinction and minimize the risk of social collapse.
We use a decentralized organizational model called SOS (Self Organising System). This system enables us to harness group wisdom while remaining agile and being able to respond quickly to emerging situations. Locally and globally.
We use a decentralized organizational model called SOS (Self Organising System). This system enables us to harness group wisdom while remaining agile and being able to respond quickly to emerging situations. Locally and globally.
12:10 — 12:25
talk
Demand 100% open research now! #ock
Simon Worthington
In this lightning talk, Simon Worthington, researcher in future publishing, including — free and open source software, economic models, and the politics of Open Science will present his research in Computational Cultural Publishing and its relation with Open Science. He will also introduce the structure of the Climate Emergency Sprint he organizes within #AMRO20.
LUNCH
13:00 — 14:00
food
Lunch
Taro Knopp, Martina Schönbauer
This years AMRO includes a daily menu throughout the festival.
WORKSHOPS
13:00 — 14:00
workshop
Cook-it-Together Session
Taro Knopp, Martina Schönbauer
AMRO20 is radically digital, but we will not miss the occasion to enjoy great food! Martina and Taro, our amazing culinary team, curated a finest menu for us to cook and enjoy from the distance.
In this workshop-session, Martina and Taro will teach us how to make an oyster-mushroom-ceviche, which will be one of the foods for this evenings community dinner.
In this workshop-session, Martina and Taro will teach us how to make an oyster-mushroom-ceviche, which will be one of the foods for this evenings community dinner.
14:00 — 15:30
workshop
Bootleg Library Session: Notes on Texts
Simon Browne
The *bootleg library* is a particular, situated social infrastructure that operates from the understanding that the library is a collection of texts and readers.
14:00 — 15:30
workshop
Infrastructure, Sustainability, Technology, Crisis: Making Visible the Invisible
Re:Common
This workshop is largely a discussion format where we will explore the broader re-shaping of the so called "extractivist society", which started before the pandemic and took advantage of it; the material infrastructure supporting its broader pattern of change; the social, environmental and climate implications of the re-configuration of the global economy.
14:00 — 15:30
workshop
Chua’s Circuit within an Analog Computer — Part 1: Introduction
Wolfgang Spahn
A workshop about Chua’s Circuit within the analog computer Confetti to generate chaotic signals, noise and sound. In the workshop we will learn the basic principles of an analog computer. We also will build the two main components for Chua’s Circuit a Gyrator and a Chua’s Diode. And with these two modules we will create a circuit in order to listen to the butterfly in our tornado.
16:00 — 17:00
workshop
ASMR for Earthly Survival
Post-Bio-Internet Collective
“ASMR for earthly survival” explores the potential of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) as a tool for the creation of intimate science fiction storytelling narratives.
16:00 — 17:00
workshop
Whole Waste Catalog — After the First Pilot
Raphael Perret
Since 2012 my ongoing research on the topic of informal e-waste recycling has been the starting point for works in various mediums and formats. As i see the urgent necessity of an intervention into reality beyond art, I allow myself the liberty to go even a step further and get engaged with the smartphone app 'Whole Waste Catalog', providing bottom-up education and support for informal e-waste workers.
I am now presenting the current state of the project, its findings and put it up for discussion.
I am now presenting the current state of the project, its findings and put it up for discussion.
16:00 — 17:30
workshop
Computational Cultural Publishing: Climate Emergency Sprint — Part 1
Simon Worthington
In this workshop you're invited to ask questions about what the open scientific literature knows about climate change using Open Climate Knowledge (OCKProject) data mining software.
17:00 — 18:30
performance
Waterlily Tea
Nikola Brabcova, Michal Klodner
Preparing tea, connecting sensor data and images of local nature to media space. Waterlily tea will look at the design of the medium itself: the field in which individual actors are located, as an area of sustainable infrastructures, linking natural, technological and social. The overall prosperity of the local ecosystem is a sign of successful development.
DINNER
18:00 — 19:00
food
AMRO Community Dinner
Taro Knopp, Martina Schönbauer
AMRO20 is radically digital, but we will not miss the occasion to enjoy great food! Martina and Taro, our amazing culinary team, curated a finest menu for us to cook and enjoy from the distance.
After the first full day of festival, we will try to have a community dinner before the evening conference.
After the first full day of festival, we will try to have a community dinner before the evening conference.
CONFERENCES
19:00 — 19:40
conversation
Carbon Plantation: To Measure, To Count, To Own, To Put a Price to, and To Trade Climate Oppression
FRAUD, Jutta Kill
What is privileged in the measurement and the financialisation of ‘nature’ in units of carbon? Carbon policy treats intractably complex environments such as forests or shorelines as Cartesian spaces governed by reversible (timeless) time. Historical and geosocial critiques of institutional violence and power imbalances inherent to this environmental accounting is rarely put into question.
This conversation will consider some of the violence embedded in carbon-led accounting that directs climate policy, and how environmental accounting is employed to facilitate novel forms of intersectional surveillance, or bio- and data-piracy through such examples as Microsoft’s Offset Investments and the Earth Bank of Codes.
This conversation will consider some of the violence embedded in carbon-led accounting that directs climate policy, and how environmental accounting is employed to facilitate novel forms of intersectional surveillance, or bio- and data-piracy through such examples as Microsoft’s Offset Investments and the Earth Bank of Codes.
19:50 — 21:00
conversation
Zugzwang* The Compulsion to Find a Common Baseline in Sound
Christina Gruber, Tega Brain, Natalia Domínguez Rangel, Samuel Hertz, Emil Flatø
*German for "compulsion to move", is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because they must make a move when they would prefer to pass and not move. (Oxford Dictionary)
Our multi-disciplinary work session will explore how a non-human approach towards the use of technology can help us to tune in with our companion species and environments.
Our multi-disciplinary work session will explore how a non-human approach towards the use of technology can help us to tune in with our companion species and environments.
EXHIBITION
ALL DAY
exhibition
Lost in a Garden of Clouds
Sai Bao & Yang Mu, Heath Bunting, FRAUD, César Escudero Andaluz, Joana Moll, Marloes de Valk, Christina Gruber, Malte Steiner , Eva-Maria Lopez, Mathieu Zurstrassen, KairUs, Franz Xaver, Nikola Brabcova, Michal Klodner, Rihards Vitols, Simon Weckert
AMRO20 exhibition was transformed into a journey through artistic projects dealing with the festival topic "Of Whirlpools and Tornadoes". As the festival became "radically digital", these projects were kind of lost in a garden of clouds. That became the title of the show.
Exhibition design curated by artist duo Sai Bao and Yang Mu.
Exhibition design curated by artist duo Sai Bao and Yang Mu.
PATIO EVENTS
17:00 — 18:30
performance
Waterlily Tea
Nikola Brabcova, Michal Klodner
Preparing tea, connecting sensor data and images of local nature to media space. Waterlily tea will look at the design of the medium itself: the field in which individual actors are located, as an area of sustainable infrastructures, linking natural, technological and social. The overall prosperity of the local ecosystem is a sign of successful development.
20:20 — 20:21
performance
One Minute Room
bb15 feat. gg
A TEXT-SCORE open for collaboration, to be performed at bb15 in Linz, Austria at 20:20, from 20.05—23.05. Each action is recorded and played back the next day, by the sound installation "Minute/Year" by Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty.
ALL DAY
various
Patio Events
Community feat. Various Artists
This years digital AMRO20 edition offers experimental sessions for you to enjoy a full festival experience and not get overwhelmed by talks, workshops and performances. Head over to our PATIO and meet others for a quick constructive break.
LIGHTNING TALKS
11:00 — 11:15
talk
3D Modeling With Open Source Tools and the Usage of Open Source 3D Engines in My Art
Malte Steiner
In this presentation Malte Steiner talks about his usage of 3D Engines in his art, from early experiments with VRML in the 90s via OpenSceneGraph in the 2000s till Godot today. Accessibility of the code to modify and expand the engines beyond their original intention was and is an important factor in choosing the right one.
11:20 — 11:55
presentation
Living Text: Two Collective Approaches
Rita Graça, Simon Browne, Marloes de Valk
Readers and writers of Codes of Conduct and the bootleg library. Simon Browne will introduce his project *bootleg library*, a particular, situated social infrastructure that operates from the understanding that the library is a collection of texts and readers. Rita Graça will guide us into the possibilities of Codes of Conduct, user guidelines, and other informal documents to manage online hate.
12:00 — 12:15
talk
QUEERingNETWORKing — Webs Against Normal
Z. Blace
In the time when discussing the 'new normal' in media is a dominant trend of 'developed' world, while suppressed and critical voices are questioning who's normal it was...web practices that address normalcy and How?Who? they fail should help research, imagine and prototype what could be alternatives, or even appropriations that foreground care and needs for those who are always far from norms. WikiWiki%Lohi?
12:20 — 12:30
talk
Sorry About That
Antonio Roberts
With galleries and venues closed, more artists, musicians, DJ's and other performers have started to explore live streaming as a way to continue to perform to an audience. In this area the issue of copyright enforcement and infringement still exists and is potentially worsened, with performances being disrupted or stopped due to copyright claims. In this talk I will ask how compatible live streaming is with copyright, especially when it is enforced by bots and algorithms.
LUNCH
13:00 — 14:00
food
Lunch
Taro Knopp, Martina Schönbauer
This years AMRO includes a daily menu throughout the festival.
WORKSHOPS
11:00 — 13:00
worklab
LivingLab
Michal Klodner, Nikola Brabcova
The workshop is a place for exchange between artists and researchers working on the connection between technical and natural environments. Participation includes talks, hands-on digital microscopy, social networks, solar energy.
13:00 — 15:00
workshop
Speculative Nows for Post COVID-19 Futures
KairUs, Anuradha Reddy, Bastien Kerspern, Özgün Eylül İşcen
In this workshop we want to take time, space and (privileged) right to think about the future. When the earlier imagined futures of "smartness" producing resilience seem to be failing we like to share experiences and discuss local community responses and alternative ad-hoc networks that emerge within our newly defined living spaces in our countries, cities, neighbourhood and households.
14:00 — 15:30
workshop
Chua’s Circuit within an Analog Computer — Part 2: Test, Debug and Exchange
Wolfgang Spahn
A workshop about Chua’s Circuit within the analog computer Confetti to generate chaotic signals, noise and sound. In this session we will debug and test our instruments and have an exchange on the remote-workshops
14:00 — 17:00
workshop
Trace Carbon
Jamie Allen, Caroline Sinders
The workshop Trace Carbon is largely a discussion format, framed around the markets and techniques for carbon measurement and management currently proposed and underway in environmental, ecological, governmental, industrial and technological contexts. The workshop features presentations of ongoing related work, and a ‘reader’. The workshop itself will involve recordings of ‘carbon traces’ — stories by and with participants — to be published in some form through the Cycles of Circulation project.
16:00 — 17:30
Live AMA
IAMA: Daily Linux/macOS/Windows User, Ask Me Anything!
Onur Olgaç
I currently work as a sysadmin in servus.at and I have been facing tech-related questions on a daily basis for years from friends, colleagues and family. Sometimes I even can't help myself but intervene without being asked. The questions are not always privacy related but sometimes also purely practical.
Register to our freshly set-up matrix server anytime before 16:00, the location link to the room will be available ~60 mins before the event. This will be a live, chatroom interpretation of an IAmA.
Register to our freshly set-up matrix server anytime before 16:00, the location link to the room will be available ~60 mins before the event. This will be a live, chatroom interpretation of an IAmA.
16:00 — 17:30
workshop
DIY Solutions to Hack Contemporary Technologies
Dasha Ilina
DIY Solutions to Hack Contemporary Technologies is a workshop focused on imagining DIY objects against health problems that arise from technology, using materials you can find in your own home. If you have ever experienced eye dryness from staring at a screen for too long or neck pain from looking down at your phone too much, this workshop is for you!
16:00 — 18:00
workshop
An Ideation Workshop on Mapping Sustainability Criteria with Free and Open Source Software Communities Core Values
Malte Reißig
We want to map the core values associated with openness and freedom, like we got them to know engaging in free and open source software communities, with some sustainability criteria to try to describe and discuss the relatedness of these worlds.
DINNER
18:00 — 19:00
food
Dinner
Taro Knopp, Martina Schönbauer
This years AMRO includes a daily menu throughout the festival.
CONFERENCES
19:00 — 20:10
panel
From Sea to City
Violeta Moreno-Lax, Adnan Hadzi, Nicolas Zemke, Hagen Kopp
Sea Watch and Alarm Phone have already been working in a state of permanent crisis for 5 years now, fighting the EU'S policies of letting die at the deadliest European border, the Mediterranean. It is an avoidable and deadly crisis. Now the biggest difference is that our environment is also in one. Staying at home, in those Covid-19 times, is a privilege that the people we pull out of the water do not have. We must not and will not forget the people who are fighting for their survival on the doorstep of Fortress Europe. Flight is not a choice.
20:15 — 21:30
conversation
Narrative of Emergency
Santiago Zabala, Marloes de Valk, DISNOVATION.ORG
The third night will focus on contemporary emergencies and artists and activists working with them. In this conversation, the philosopher and cultural critic Santiago Zabala will discuss his work on the contemporary “absence of emergencies” with AMRO community members Marloes de Valk and Disnovation.org.
NIGHTLINE
21:00 — 21:30
interview
Nightline Presentation
Gabriela Gordillo @Radio FRO
Tune in at Radio FRO for an overview of AMRO20 Festival & the Nightline.
21:30 — 21:50
performance
Isolation Hyms & Lockdown Anthems
Moritz Morast
Isolation Hyms & Lockdown Anthems is exploring the expanding technical environment of video conferencing software in the form of a vocal-piece for voice, video conferencing software and electronics.
21:50 — 22:20
performance
Kikimore: 22 5 Leivo
Kikimore
Kikimora is a mythological female house spirit in eastern Slavic mythology which is known for producing noises and weird sounds in the middle of the night. Kikimore can seduce you, intrigue you, frighten you or inspire your imagination.
22:20 — 23:00
performance
Darkvoice
Jörg Piringer
Darkvoice is an album and a set of videos reflecting on the role of spoken language in the age of pervasive and permanent electronic surveillance. It is exclusively made from manipulated voice, sinister typography and digital technology.
23:00 — 23:40
performance
Aire
Interspecifics
Aire is a generative sound piece inspired by the complexity and variation of atmospheric data in one of the most polluted cities in the world: Mexico City. We start from a research work that focal point is to understanding the way in which CDMX's environmental monitoring system operates. We use a software written in Python to access the data that environmental sensors throw in real time.
23:40 — 00:00
performance
Human
Yen Tzu Chang
With music, Yen Tzu Chang presents the complexity and subtlety of the interpersonal relationship. Through the combination of fragmented sounds in life and extending a paragraph to a whole song, a sense of life and a slow sense of time and space are produced. Those incomplete relationships and clumsy vocabulary are represented in the work.
EXHIBITION
ALL DAY
exhibition
Lost in a Garden of Clouds
Sai Bao & Yang Mu, Heath Bunting, FRAUD, César Escudero Andaluz, Joana Moll, Marloes de Valk, Christina Gruber, Malte Steiner , Eva-Maria Lopez, Mathieu Zurstrassen, KairUs, Franz Xaver, Nikola Brabcova, Michal Klodner, Rihards Vitols, Simon Weckert
AMRO20 exhibition was transformed into a journey through artistic projects dealing with the festival topic "Of Whirlpools and Tornadoes". As the festival became "radically digital", these projects were kind of lost in a garden of clouds. That became the title of the show.
Exhibition design curated by artist duo Sai Bao and Yang Mu.
Exhibition design curated by artist duo Sai Bao and Yang Mu.
PATIO EVENTS
16:00 — 17:30
Live AMA
IAMA: Daily Linux/macOS/Windows User, Ask Me Anything!
Onur Olgaç
I currently work as a sysadmin in servus.at and I have been facing tech-related questions on a daily basis for years from friends, colleagues and family. Sometimes I even can't help myself but intervene without being asked. The questions are not always privacy related but sometimes also purely practical.
Register to our freshly set-up matrix server anytime before 16:00, the location link to the room will be available ~60 mins before the event. This will be a live, chatroom interpretation of an IAmA.
Register to our freshly set-up matrix server anytime before 16:00, the location link to the room will be available ~60 mins before the event. This will be a live, chatroom interpretation of an IAmA.
20:20 — 20:21
performance
One Minute Room
bb15 feat. gg
A TEXT-SCORE open for collaboration, to be performed at bb15 in Linz, Austria at 20:20, from 20.05—23.05. Each action is recorded and played back the next day, by the sound installation "Minute/Year" by Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty.
ALL DAY
various
Patio Events
Community feat. Various Artists
This years digital AMRO20 edition offers experimental sessions for you to enjoy a full festival experience and not get overwhelmed by talks, workshops and performances. Head over to our PATIO and meet others for a quick constructive break.
LIGHTNING TALKS
11:00 — 11:20
talk
Choreographies of Scale
Inari Wishiki (aka Yoshinari Nishiki)
Drawing upon an emerging genre of supply chain literature, this essay-film work presented by Wishiki at AMRO pierces through the various logistics projects pursued by the artist since 2018, in conversation with writer-researcher Ming Lin.
11:20 — 11:35
talk
Horgesbord — an Experiment in Communal Computing
Chipp Jansen
Horgesbord is a call-to-action for experimenting in communal computing a la squatting the data center. While our devices lack free will, ourselves as owners of these devices do. So with this is the principle of consensual giving up our device to the communal computing environment. We no longer own the device and but we do free-willingly allow our device to be „owned“ by the compute collective. This is to contrast the unwilling and unknowing in habitation and ownership of our devices via malware installed by shadowy networks of hackers and state-sponsored security agencies.
11:35 — 11:45
talk
Critical Mining: Blockchain and Bitcoin in Contemporary Art
César Escudero Andaluz, Martín Nadal
This presentation examines different examples of artworks based on blockchain technology, in particularly how artistic practices are able to explore critically bitcoin mining processes. The objective is to connect aesthetic experiences, creative practices and artistic products analyzing four different spheres; technical, ideological, ecological, and economical.
12:00 — 13:00
open space
Open Space
You
This seat is free for you! In this format you have only 10 minutes time for your presentation. To reserve your slot, you must register.
LUNCH
13:00 — 14:00
food
Lunch
Taro Knopp, Martina Schönbauer
This years AMRO includes a daily menu throughout the festival.
WORKSHOPS
14:00 — 15:30
workshop
Decentralized Organizational Models
An XR Austria participant
The good thing is that many organization models work well on a normal base during a regular day. But what will happen if there is an urgent situation? an emergency? Who is responsible to act, to communicate to talk for the group? In this workshop held by an XR Austria participant you will get to know how the XR organizational model works and then you will compare it with the one of your own organization.
14:00 — 16:00
workshop
Hacking & Developing Modular Synth Hardware
Trial#1
Noiselab Linz is offering a Workshop on Hacking and Developing simple Modular Synthesizer Hardware.
14:00 — 17:00
workshop
Post-Growth
DISNOVATION.ORG, Baruch Gottlieb
The workshop Post-Growth uses the frameworks of grassroots facilitation and gaming to structure a conversation about radical post-growth transformations in our lives. Is based on Disnovation.org's toolkit designed to increase awareness of the multiple root causes of these crises — rather than their mere consequences — as a basis to stimulate and provide a foundation for post-growth imaginaries, models and practices.
14:00 — 17:00
workshop
NotFoundOn
NotFoundOn Custodians
Over the past year Not Found On has been co-creating a mediawiki platform to record/connect feminist queer intersectional knowledge. It has done so by responding to tensions for the desire for privacy and the desire to share, as well as the precarious nature of the spaces we occupy. It is the recognition of bars, kitchens, sports teams as sites of knowledge creation and the desire to seek alternatives to corporately owned social media.
16:00 — 17:30
workshop
Computational Cultural Publishing: Climate Emergency Sprint — Part 2
Simon Worthington
In this workshop you're invited to ask questions about what the open scientific literature knows about climate change using Open Climate Knowledge (OCKProject) data mining software.
17:00 — 17:45
workshop
Encrypt, Print, Decrypt!
Mara Karagianni
In this workshop we will look into creating visually encrypted messages with the help of python scripts. Visual Cryptography was developed in the 90s, and could be a low-energy-footprint alternative to algorithmic encryptions since it requires far less computational input.
Briefly, Visual Cryptography is based on the principal of an image split up into n shares so that only someone with all n shares could decrypt that image.
Briefly, Visual Cryptography is based on the principal of an image split up into n shares so that only someone with all n shares could decrypt that image.
DINNER
18:00 — 19:00
food
Dinner
Taro Knopp, Martina Schönbauer
This years AMRO includes a daily menu throughout the festival.
CONFERENCES
19:00 — 20:10
panel
Beautiful Seams: Unraveling the Intelligence of Everything
Bastien Kerspern, Özgün Eylül İşcen, KairUs, Anuradha Reddy
Narratives of "smartness" are extending to all areas of life: cities, homes and things. These narratives are dominated by "the smartness mandate" promising that innovation and technology will provide solutions to various crises of our planet. Any economic, environmental or security threat, like the ongoing pandemic, becomes a possibility for smart growth and optimization for those wishing to profit from the 4th industrial revolution.
20:15 — 21:30
conversation
Future Sustainabilities of Infrastructure
Joana Moll, Malte Reißig, Kris De Decker, Filippo Taglieri, Elena Gerebizza
The last session of AMRO20 will focus on the sustainability of IT, closing with a future-oriented attitude. A group of researchers, artists, developers, activists Malte Reißig, Joana Moll, Kris de Decker and the collective Re:Common will engage in a conversation envisioning possible future developments of sustainable technologies and infrastructures.
NIGHTLINE
21:00 — 21:30
performance
Once Upon a Time There Was Nothing
Monica Vlad
Stream @Radio FRO
21:30 — 21:45
performance
Noisy in Organic
Trial#1
Analog in concrete. Flashy in peace. Noisy in organic.
21:45 — 22:00
performance
ASMR for Earthly Survival
Post-Bio-Internet Collective
Soft voices and soothing sounds will take the audience on a sensory audiovisual journey through a dystopian near future.
22:00 — 22:40
performance
Self-Similarity
Wolfgang Spahn
"Self-Similarity" is a performance for sonification and visualization of states of disorder and irregularities in chaos theory.
22:40 — 23:20
performance
HIPERSONICA
Alexandra Cardenas
HIPERSONICA // live coded music // improvised music // generative music // stochastic music // tecnho+noise
This album was written fully in TidalCycles and SuperCollider.
This album was written fully in TidalCycles and SuperCollider.
23:20 — 00:00
performance
hellocatfood
Antonio Roberts
For his live performances, hellocatfood uses software including Pure Data to explore the creative potential of algorithms, glitches, and feedback loops.
EXHIBITION
ALL DAY
exhibition
Lost in a Garden of Clouds
Sai Bao & Yang Mu, Heath Bunting, FRAUD, César Escudero Andaluz, Joana Moll, Marloes de Valk, Christina Gruber, Malte Steiner , Eva-Maria Lopez, Mathieu Zurstrassen, KairUs, Franz Xaver, Nikola Brabcova, Michal Klodner, Rihards Vitols, Simon Weckert
AMRO20 exhibition was transformed into a journey through artistic projects dealing with the festival topic "Of Whirlpools and Tornadoes". As the festival became "radically digital", these projects were kind of lost in a garden of clouds. That became the title of the show.
Exhibition design curated by artist duo Sai Bao and Yang Mu.
Exhibition design curated by artist duo Sai Bao and Yang Mu.
PATIO EVENTS
20:20 — 20:21
performance
One Minute Room
bb15 feat. gg
A TEXT-SCORE open for collaboration, to be performed at bb15 in Linz, Austria at 20:20, from 20.05—23.05. Each action is recorded and played back the next day, by the sound installation "Minute/Year" by Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty.
ALL DAY
various
Patio Events
Community feat. Various Artists
This years digital AMRO20 edition offers experimental sessions for you to enjoy a full festival experience and not get overwhelmed by talks, workshops and performances. Head over to our PATIO and meet others for a quick constructive break.
