The /etc2007 took place in Linz, Austria from 11 – 14 July 2007, made possible through an alliance between: Aileen Derieg, servus.at, the Linz art server MAIZ, an autonomous organization of and for migrant women in Upper Austria Stadtwerkstatt an independent cultural association. A total of over sixty women came together from literally all over the world to share skills and knowledge, take things apart and put things together, and enjoy music, conversations and one another's company.

LiWoLi 2011 (Art Meets Radical Openness) Observing, comparing, reflecting, imitating, testing, combining 12th - 14th May 2011 Kunstuniversität Linz, Hauptplatz 8, 4020 Linz LiWoLi is an open lab and meeting spot for artists, developers and educators using and creating FLOSS (free/libre open source software) and Open Hardware in the artistic and cultural context. LiWoLi is all about sharing skills, code and knowledge within the public domain and discussing the challenges of open practice. This year's event offers an exhibition, artists' workshops and – like every year – lectures, presentations and sound-performances.

servus.at supportet the project "Delivery for Mr. Rajab" by !Mediengruppe Bitnik with resources. «Delivery for Mr. Rajab» is the continuation of «Delivery for Mr. Assange». In January 2013, !Mediengruppe Bitnik sent Wikileaks-founder Julian Assange a parcel containing a hidden camera. After 32 hours and a tantalizing and intense journey, sharing over 9000 images of postal bags, vans and delivery centres, the camera arrived and Julian Assange performed for the several thousand people watching.

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?

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?

Opening: Tue, 16th of March 2017, 7pm
Performance Data Undertaker mit Audrey Samson: 16th of March 2017, 7.30pm esc medien kunst labor Graz

GAP Glurns Art Point is an art association based in Glorenza/Glurns, the smallest city in South Tyrol. This year the association, usually hosting artists in an Atelier House, is producing an exhibition project entitled 1+1=3 in Museion, the art museum of Bolzano/Bozen.

GAP involved servus.at in the realization of a series of displays that would enrich the exhibition of the artworks by conveying information about the artists' practices and working spaces.

Experimenting in Alternative Economies and Digital Currencies

In 2019 servus.at will concentrate on alternative economic models and the digitization of currencies. These topics will be discussed in a series of lectures and workshops with artists, writers and theorists who are trying to propose valid alternatives to the current system.

LINZ FMR is a biennial format for art in digital contexts and public spaces. The first edition will take place at the end of March 2019 in Linz, Austria.

The heart of the format is an exhibition in public and open space with works by international and local artists who deal with art in digital contexts. A supporting program with walks, lectures, films, concerts and discussions will accompany the exhibition, to reflect on new approaches, working methods and developments related to art in digital contexts.

In order to make it even easier for our current and future association members to switch to alternative information technologies, we are putting together the digital independence package for arts & culture workers.
Thereby we want to simplify the access to our digital offers, to communicate the advantages of open source software even better and to give the Upper Austrian art & cultural workers the possibility to improve their workflows by means of digital tools and at the same time to protect their data, and those of their members, from unwanted access by third parties.

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.

We are all confronted with digital technology on a daily basis. Many people are aware that the use of computers and smartphones in the age of complete networking requires critical behaviour. Nevertheless, many people often lack the means to act and/or detailed technical knowledge about the stumbling blocks that technology entails.
The teaching of technical skills through workshops always takes place in the context of socio-political issues.

The "Our Bodies, Our Data: a real/virtual event" took place on October 21st, 2021 online. The Live Video Stream was recorded and can be viewed @ this website

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.

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.

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.

a.space was a distributed sound installation presented at Art Meets Radical Openness 2022, which interconnected three spaces through a directional loop affected by space, feedback and acoustic events. Individual sets were activated by Stefan Tiefengraber in Linz, Polina Khatsenka in Ústí nad Labem and Luka Prinčič and ala pecula in Ljubljana. Through a virtual platform, they enabled listening, choosing a point of perspective and interaction with others. The web interface developed by Michael Aschauer is shared as an open source tool for further use.

servus.at is part of the network of initiatives that call for the International Trans ★ Feminist Digital Depletion Strike. The initiatives is launched by The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) https://titipi.org/8m/ and supported by many who call for attentions on the dynamics of dependency and exploitation in the cloud. The network takes a position to support the Trans ★ Feminist struggles and contextualises in it the need to change the current commercial cloud, into a feminist, anti-racist and anti capitalist shape.

International Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike: https://core.servus.at/8m/

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.

d*sign week
21.-26. November 2023

d*sign week is a format dedicated to experimental and independent design practices. The week program includes talks, workshops, radio broadcasts, presentations about explorative printing, zine making and independent design tools, as well as hybrid forms of publishing on the web, open licenses, copyleft and collective forms of authorship.

The d*sign week 2023 is initiated by the local cultural platforms servus.at and Potato Publising and organized in collaboration with Kunstuniversität Linz, departments of Timebased Media & Visual Communication, Radio FRO and Kulturverein zur Schießhalle.

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.