STREAM: Art Meets Radical Openness 2020

Art Meets Radical Openness 2020
20th - 23rd of May 2020
locations: online, DorfTV.at
“We meet at your place!”

AMRO is a biennial community festival that explores and discusses new challenges between digital culture, art, everyday life, education, politics and activism. The festival is organised by the Linz based net culture initiative servus.at.

Due to the circulating Covid-19 pandemic, it was not possible to organize this years edition and gathering as usual. We will miss the possibility to meet our community in the physical space and we will miss the excellent food which was always provided.

Nevertheless, we take this as a challenge and decided to come up with a radical digital version for this years edition of our event which includes our DIY culture of setting up our own trustworthy digital environment. We will be distant but we will be social and happy to welcome you within our online event.

Program 2020
Wednesday
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

19:30 - 20:10
Intimacy and its (technological) discontents: 3 theses while social distancing
Nishant Shah, Us(c)hi Reiter, Valie Djordjevic

Nishant Shah prepared already three Videos: Your are invited to preview his input beforehand and prepare your questions and comments for the live event.
Conversation

20:20 - 20:40
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.
Lecture

20:40 - 21:00
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.
Lecture

21:30 - 22:00
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 Yang Mu and Sai Bao.
Presentation, Exhibition, Guided Tour

22:00 - 23:30
Nightline
Joana Chicau, Dominik Leitner, Heavy Lifting

AMRO20 Nightline is streamed by dorfTV and radio FRO. Tonight: Exhibition Opening, Joana Chicau, Gunship Collider, Heavy Lifting.
Performance