AMRO 2020 | Nightline

AMRO20: Art Meets Radical Openness 2020
Friday, 22nd of May
9:30pm: Nightline

// Isolation Hyms & Lockdown Anthems, Moritz Morast

Morast explores the expanding technical environment of video conferencing software in the form of a vocal-piece for voice, video conferencing software and electronics.

// Kikimore

Kikimora is a mythological female house spirit in eastern Slavic mythology which is known for producing noises and weird sounds in the middle of the night. Kikimore can seduce you, intrigue you, frighten you or inspire your imagination.

// Darkvoice, Jörg Piringer

darkvoice is an album and a set of videos reflecting on the role of spoken language in the age of pervasive and permanent electronic surveillance. it is exclusively made from manipulated voice, sinister typography and digital technology.

// Aire, Interspecifics

Aire is a generative sound piece inspired by the complexity and variation of atmospheric data in one of the most polluted cities in the world: Mexico City. We start from a research work that focal point is to understanding the way in which CDMX's environmental monitoring system operates. We use a software written in Python to access the data that environmental sensors throw in real time.

// Human, Yen Tzu Chang

With music, Yen Tzy Chang presents the complexity and subtlety of the interpersonal relationship. Through the combination of fragmented sounds in life and extending a paragraph to a whole song, a sense of life and a slow sense of time and space are produced. Those incomplete relationships and clumsy vocabulary are represented in the work.

// ABOUT //

AMRO20: Art Meets Radical Openness 2020
May 20th — 23rd / Online!

AMRO is a biennial community festival that explores and discusses new challenges between digital culture, art, everyday life, education, politics and activism. The festival is organised by the Linz based net culture initiative servus.at.

Due to the circulating Covid-19 pandemic, it was not possible to organize this years edition and gathering as usual. We will miss the possibility to meet our community in the physical space and we will miss the excellent food which was always provided.
We take this as a challenge and decided to come up with a radical digital version for this years edition of our event which includes our DIY culture of setting up our own trustworthy digital environment. We will be distant but we will be social and happy to welcome you within our online event.

Our event is distributed over different independent platforms such as dorftv.at and radio FRO fro.at, but also several other online spaces. To check them all, go to the Festival Gateway at https://gateway.radical-openness.org/

Of Whirlpools and Tornadoes

The 2020 edition of the AMRO festival is characterized by reflections upon the “centripetal” and “centrifugal” dynamics of acceleration visible in contemporary society and the ways artistic practice, activism and radical thinking can engage with it.
Of Whirlpools and Tornadoes aims to provide a picture of the current social and technological movements that reflect the diverse troubles our economic and political systems are currently facing. The speed of production and consumption of new technologies is inevitably linked to the waste of natural resources, which humans exploit and use to their own only advantage without considering the equilibrium of the ecosystem.

https://gateway.radical-openness.org/