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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2021
The Next Cloud Residency is a monthly online folder residency curated by Yang Mu & Sai Bao and hosted by the network culture initiative servus.at in Linz.
Each month a selected artist or collective is invited to fill a folder with material they want to share with the world. It can range from conceptual .txt files to a collection of deep fried .jpegs, or unplayable .exe files.
2020
In January 2020 Servus.at was cooperation partner of the third edition of the project "Mind the Gap", entitled "Recalculating. Computing territories and their analog actuators“, and curated by servus.at program developer Davide Bevilacqua. In the project three artists from the servus community were featured: Sofia Braga, Emilio Vavarella and KairUs, a collective of the artists Linda Kronman and Andreas Zingerle.
AMRO is a biennial community festival in Linz that explores and discusses new challenges between digital culture, art, everyday life, education, politics and activism. The 2020 edition of the AMRO festival aims at discussing topics such as climate and other emergencies, sustainability of the infrastructure and in general the “centripetal” and “centrifugal” dynamics of acceleration visible in contemporary society and in the networks in which production of technologies happens.
Event: Wed. 20.05.- Sat. 23.05.2020
Where? online! see: www.radical-openness.org/2020
2020, 2021
How do thoughts and knowledge spread through a network? At which speed do ideas flourish at their best? And which routes will they take to reach individuals and groups of a distributed and undefined community of intents?
A Nourishing Network is an online-offline publication project that aims at documenting and distributing current research done by the network of artists, activists and programmers that collaborate with the Austrian net culture initiative servus.at.
2019
Within the framework of this year's research laboratory we are dealing with the following topic:
Shifting Ecosystems
2018
AMRO is a biennial community festival in Linz that explores and discusses new challenges between digital culture, art, everyday life, education, politics and active action. The 2018 edition “Unmapping Infrastructures” dealt with the idea of “mapping” as a process of becoming aware and then acquiring a critical position about the current landscape of technological infrastructure.
Event: Wed. 16.05.- Sat. 19.05.2018
Location: Linz, Austria afo architekturforum oö, Stadtwerkstatt Linz
This conglomerate of machines, human and non-human actors, nation-states and borderless companies is increasingly complex to observe and describe. Nevertheless, we believe that there is more to be seen than a hyper-commercialized structure of interlaced technological layers. Cartographic mapping consists of a series of practices of observing, analyzing and representing a territory to be able to move through it. How can art and activism appropriate the methods of cartographic mapping to produce new, critical and alternative views of the current landscape shaped by different players?
The festival aimed at deepening the thematic areas of digital geopolitics, alternative design methods, activist practices and autonomous infrastructures, themes that offer directions for localizing areas of intervention. Throughout the festival, these topics will be further explored through discussion panels, workshops, and performances.
2017
Markus Decker (AT), Pamela Neuwirth (AT)
Rigor and experience, says science, and triumphs. Today we write MATERIAL and ENERGY in capital letters; EVOLUTION has also long since suspended fate. Hades brings the light of the souls out of the underworld and transposes their radiance into chemical luminescence:
2016
25.05-28.05.2016 AMRO - Art Meets Radical Openness Our Festival dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture Waste(d)!: What is the cultural, social, philosophical, ecological, and economic significance of producing, saving, deleting, and resurfacing data?
2014
Autonomy (im)possible? Date: 28.05 – 31.05.2014 Uncovering new truths and making them public as a disruption and criticism of the dominant system has consequences. Threat scenarios of the digital surveillance state inevitably have palpable effects on our lives and actions. Access to information, infrastructure and technology, which is especially important for activists in repressive regimes up to the present, has become a widely discussed issue since Snowden’s disclosures at the latest, because now a broad mass of people in democratically governed states see their “privacy” endangered. Independence, confidence and freedom are massively put to the test. How do creative actors contribute to the process of change and which new forms of cooperation do they enter into?
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