AMROGRAPH at AMRO Festival

16. bis 19. Mai 2018 Linz, Austria

Art Meets Radical Openness - Unmapping Infrastructures

Venues: afo architekturforum oö, stadtwerkstatt, quitch
The event is in English language and free of charge.

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 cooperation project between AMRO and the Department of Art Education is part of the course „Präsentationstechniken“ at the bachelor study programme of Art Education at The University of Art and Design Linz. As a creative group process eleven second-year students first developed a documentation and presentation approach for AMRO 2018 and second will carry that out during the festival.

The students of the Department of Art Education were asked to develop a documentation format for AMRO or some aspects of it's programme. After gathering individual ideas for specific workshop or panel documentations a creative group process has been launched.
Taking this year's title „Unmapping Infrastructures“ the students will first try to map the festival by using several analogue techniques which should converge on a wall at the festival on-site. Graphic recordings, colour and movement studies taken at selected events as well as written notes or social media-style analogue postings might not only be seen as a documentary work in progress. Further the first growing AMROGRAPH will provide the base to discuss the festival on a meta level – either during the festival or afterwards when it's transformed to a digital version.
The project aims for interactive moments within the festival community; immediate, subjective, spontaneous, unedited contributions and prefers analogue over digital not only because of pragmatical reasons.

Organization: servus.at in cooperation with Department Time-based Media, Kunstuniversität Linz
Partners: afo, Piet Zwart Institute, Stadtwerkstatt, qujOchö, Bildnerische Erziehung and Interface Cultures - Kunstuniversität Linz, Willy*Fred
Funders: BKA-Kunst & Kultur, Stadt Linz, Land OÖ

AMRO_Flyer.pdf
AMRO_poster.pdf
www.radical-openness.org