You’re all caught up: camouflage and exposure in the age of platform capitalism
The transmedia artist S()fia Braga took part in the AMRO Research Lab 2023 organised by the net culture association servus.at.
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2023
Free radicals are part of the body's intricate system for keeping itself healthy. They are unstable software experiments that can damage current technologies. When free radicals collide with established technological ideologies to 'steal' an electron, the devices that lose electrons may begin to function differently.
As part of the AMRO Art Meets Radical Openness Research Lab 2023, servus hosts the NL based artist vo ezn in virtual residency.
The AMRO Research Lab consists of a series of activities of artistic research happening between the various edition of the AMRO Festival.
We re-activate the format of the artist run data center (ardc), in which projects were developed in a series of virtual machines hosted in the servus.at datacenter.
vo ezn just started their residency, further info will be made public on this page and in the various AMRO pages.
2022
AMRO22 DEBUG
Event: Wed. 15.06.- Sat. 18.06.2022
Art Meets Radical Openness
Festival dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture
AMRO is a biennial community festival in Linz that explores and discusses new challenges between digital culture, art, everyday life, education, politics and activism. As a gathering of communities with interests across arts and cultures, networked technologies and political action, AMRO offers space for sharing knowledge and practices, focusing on the potential of debugging both inside and outside of the purely technical realm. The four-day event include a discursive program with keynotes, panels and lectures, workshops and showcases, and a nightline.
locations: afo – architekturforum oberösterreich, STWST, DH5, dev.lol, Raumschiff, bb15, & the Internet.
With the last UPDATE of our next cloud instance we transformed the "Next Cloud Residency" folder into something wider: an ENTIRE ATELIERHAUS.
2021
The Servus D*sign Week is a series of conversations about design and its critical implications. From the point of view of an initiative dealing with open source tools and internet technologies, we see how “design” can dangerously fall close to a corner smelling like capitalism, while is still part of our daily work and decision making. This week we invite designers and practitioners in the field to share their ideas on alternative practices and approaches to design, through radio conversations and hands-on workshops.
Servus D*sign Week is broadcasted on Radio FRO https://fro.at
Participants: Christoph Haag, Libre Graphics Club, Mara Karagianni, Ruben Pater, Potato Publishing, Varia, in conversation with Davide Bevilacqua and Gabriela Gordillo.
You can hear the conversations on the Cultural Broadcasting Archive
Hyperaccumulators are plants that grow on soils with a high heavy metal content and are able to store minerals such as copper, nickel, zinc or cadmium in their biomass. They have found an evolutionary niche in volcanic soil, industrial heaps or former mining and open-cast mining areas, in which they do not simply ignore or bypass the problematic substances, but instead absorb a large proportion of them. The stored heavy metals can be extracted and reused, which turns the plants into biological ore mines and soils can be rehabilitated over the years.
In july and August the Russian digital artist Dasha Ilina was in residency in the Stadtwerkstatt, during which she worked on her new project "Center for Networked Intimacy". In her stay Dasha developed and offered a Workshop in FLUT and a final presentation in the servus clubraum.
servus.at and its community are part of the organization and curatorial board of FMR 21, second edition of the festival for art in digital contexts and public spaces.
FMR 21 will take place in the surroundings of the Mühlkreisbahnhof railway station in Linz Urfahr between 1st-6th June 2021.
For Research Labor 2021, servus.at is working with artist Matthias Pitscher on collaborative projects about voice computers, their technologies and social impacts. Within a work session, critical devices and artworks are created that openly address contemporary 'smart' assistants.
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