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Call for Participation Art Meets Radical Openness 2026

Submitted by davide on Mon, 22/12/2025 - 13:55

Call for Participation
Art Meets Radical Openness 2026
Becoming unreadable

Festival dates:
13th–16th May 2026, Linz (AT)
 

Call DEADLINE: Fr. 16th January 2026, 16:26 CET

servus.at is calling for contributions to the upcoming edition of AMRO26 “Becoming unreadable”.

AMRO26 aims at challenging the common understanding of AI, networks and computers, and through its programme, explores approaches that offer real change: low-tech, feminist and community IT, computing within limits, up to even more radical ideas around de-computing, de-networking, de-scaling and de-platforming ourselves. 'Becoming Unreadable' involves evading surveillance by oligarchic tech corporations, operate under the radar, and refuse to comply to the total AI cloud. Non-commercial community infrastructures are fundamental tools in this process, but even more importantly we need to develop new ways of understanding each others and being together as humans. Art Meets Radical Openness wants to be a space dedicated to that.

AI Cafe #2: Franziska Thurner / Behind the Pixels – AI image generators and their bias

servus Clubraum

When: 16th December at 18:00
Where: servus.at Clubraum. c/o Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz

In this talk Franziska Thurner addresses how AI image generators work and to what extent they reinforce and reproduce social prejudices. AI training data consists of billions of internet posts and reflects existing social discrimination (sexism, racism, ableism, classism). During the AI Café, prompts are written and image generators are tried out – the results are analysed in a joint discussion with regard to gender, digital colonialism, resources and climate protection.

The AI Café is part of the collaborative project ‘Critical Digitalisation for Art and Culture / Theater Phoenix x servus.at’ and is being realised as part of the AI in Theater Phoenix project through the AI in Art and Culture funding programme

Sourdough #3 Störkoordinaten, Openness and Site-sourcing: Thinking Through Local Data with Evamaria Müller, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Sarah Wilhelmy from Mz*Baltazar’s Lab

servus Clubraum

Sourdough #3 (Workshop, lecture, listening session)
::When:: Fri., 12 Dec. // 15:00–18:00:
::Where:: servus.at Clubraum. c/o Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz

Hier anmelden >> https://umfrage.servus.at/index.php/862413

d*sign week 2025

Mon, 24/11/2025 - 10:00 to Sun, 30/11/2025 - 21:00
location: 
Kulturverein zur Schießhalle

For who(m) is the making?
d*sign week 2025
24th – 30th November 2025

For whom do we design? And who has actually access to the tools for making?
How can we combine accessibility with the evolving language of visual communication?
d*sign week is a festival for experimental and independent design. The 2025 edition features workshops, lectures and conversations on design tools, graphic software and autonomous printing and publishing processes. Its programme investigates how access, participation and inclusion can be values that guide the making.

Programme details at: dsignweek.servus.at