AMRO 2026 - Art Meets Radical Openness

In Kooperation mit der Kunstuniversität Linz streamt DORFTV die Vorträge im Rahmen von AMRO Festivals von 13. - 16. Mai live aus dem afo - architekturform Oberösterreich.

AMRO26
Becoming Unreadable
13th–16th May 2026, Linz (AT)

Festival dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture

Programm:

10:00 – 11:00

Lecture afo - 1st floor | conference hall 

Fodder for the machine – The European Commission’s plans to facilitate building generative models on our data without our consent (and why we should stop them)

Raphael Albert

Under the guise of “cutting unnecessary red tape”, the European Commission proposed profound changes to the Union’s regulatory framework for the protection of personal data.

Lecture afo - 1st floor | conference hall 

Scenes of partisan technologies, collective intelligences, algosomatics

eeefff (Dzina Zhuk & Nicolay Spesivtsev)

Based on the practices of eeefff — an artistic cooperation and made-up institution working across poetic computations and “infrastructures of imagination” — the lecture will focus on techno-politic-poetic imaginations and scenes of their unrolling.

11:15 – 13:00

Lecture afo - 1st floor | conference hall 

Follow the Infrastructure: Digital Sovereignty as National Fantasy

Anna Kraher

Under the banner of “digital sovereignty,” significant investments are currently being directed toward digital infrastructure projects "made in Germany.” In this context, corporations are increasingly intervening in AI development, academia, and education, while invoking notions of national (digital) identity.

Lecture afo - 1st floor | conference hall 

Institutionalising the development of democracy (and political structures).

Stefan Schartlmüller

"> Do we need a shared understanding of democracy as a society? > Would such an understanding help us work for peace and against polarisation? > And how would we get there?

Lecture afo - 1st floor | conference hall 

The Plot is on Fire – Becoming unreadable whilst cultivating our capacity to read

Manuela Zechner

What does it mean to "become unreadable" in the face of technofascistic and hyperindividualizing regimes? To read reality, read others that exist outside our bubbles, read other species and types, read realities beyond our radius, habitus, and syllabus.