Driven by synths, voice, electrosmog, radical glitches, media memories and techno frenetic soundscapes, this year’s nightline looks into sociopolitical relations between body, space and technology from the perspective of gender, trans-hack feminisms and free software.
Along 3 evenings, the AMRO nightline hosts audiovisual and performative expressions in the form of improvisation sets, listening sessions, lecture-performance, solo and collective entanglements that unfold in an algorave and open dance floor.
According to the rest of the festival program, the proposals showcased at AMRO ***nightline*** are based on Free/Libre Open Source Software, grounded on the practice of building independent, alternative, community-based technologies.
Alternatively, the AMRO program features a series of workshops around these technologies and approaches.
19:00 – 21:00 SCREENING
Film by: World Information Institute, Felix Stalder, Konrad Becker
Fake news, disinformation, psychological warfare. The modern conceptions of truth and reality are in disarray.Categorical systems that have organized Western culture over the last 200 years, are broken up and eroded. We are confronted with all kinds of new hybrids.Digital communication forces us to look not only at technical protocols but also at protocols of the human mind and nervous system. Over the last 30 years, artists, researchers, and activists, brought together by the Institute of New Cultural Technologies in Vienna, have explored alternative histories of media and the emergent digital (un)consciousness. Their perspectives, seemingly marginal during times of techno-utopianism, are now critical as we are traversing new zones of monsters.
Mitsitron
Mitsitron (they/them) is a cultural worker from Greece, based at Rotterdam. They have been shaped by soundscapes and public spaces, austerity and forced categorizations, heartbreaks and conscious relating. Through their practiced research they design processes to queer sound design structures.
Luka Prinčič
Luka Prinčič is a musician, sound designer and media artist. He has been writing music, creating sound art, performing, and manipulating new media in various ways since mid-’90s. He specialises in computer music, elaborated funk beats, immersive soundscapes, incidental music for live arts & video, and digital media experiments.
He performed at festivals like Ars Electronica (Linz), EMAF (Osnabrueck), Netmage (Bologna), MENT (Ljubljana) and Trouble (Brussels), and worked at Ljubljana Digital Media Lab (Ljudmila) and local hackerspace CyberPipe (Ljubljana).
ultramorbidi
ultramorbidi is prepared to paste themselves into the hearts of queer and electro-loving nerds around the networked globe. formed in late summer of 2023 the duo is an always incomplete fusion of transginger and scriptboy, comprising their cyborg bodies and and life companionship. ultramorbidi choose free, feminist and alternative tools for organizing and music making whenever possible. soon to be found at ultramorbidi.xyz, else look for #ultramorbidi on the fediverse.
romi N/A
romi N/A is a visual artist who loves to dive deep into the playful expression of live-coding: „move your args and your mind will follow.“ this approach to mind-machine feedback transcends into life where she finds herself breaking and rearranging method.chains constantly. currently she works with hydra, a live-codeable visual synth and networked coding environment that encourages exploration and source sharing.
The Nightline of Art Meets Radical Openness 2024 is curated by Gabriela Gordillo
