STREAM: Art Meets Radical Openness 2020

Program 2020
Thursday 21.05.
Lost in a garden of clouds
Sai Bao & Yang Mu, Heath Bunting , FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo), 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

11:00 - 13:00
Lightning Talks
Rob La Frenais, Simon Weckert, Eva-Maria Lopez, An XR Austria participant, Simon Worthington

Lightning Talks are 15-20 min presentations by AMRO20 participants
Lightning Talks

14:00 - 18:30
Workshops
Simon Browne, Wolfgang Spahn, Post-Bio-Internet Collective, Raphael Perret, Simon Worthington, Nikola Brabcova, Michal Klodner, Filippo Taglieri, Elena Gerebizza

Here all the workshops being held on the second day of AMRO20
Workshop

19:00 - 19:40
Carbon plantation: to measure, to count, to own, to put a price to, and to trade climate oppression
FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo), 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.
Conversation

19:50 - 21:00
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.
Conversation