Art Meets Radical Openness
Research Labs 2025
This year, AMRO’s research program features two Labs.
One research lab about fluidics with Ioana Vreme Moser & Diane Pricop deals with different (fluid-based) forms of computation and how they challenge our understanding of computing and calculation.
A second research thread with Anna Kraher deals with the Politics of Isolation, the complex layers of techno-utopian visions and how they ground on exploitative and isolationist futures.
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Politics of Isolation
2024 (ongoing), Research Project „Homeland“ is more than a place; it’s the narration of an ideal that often excludes those who don’t fit that ideal. As a collective narrative, it shapes our vision of living together and is thereby also an imagination and negotiation of the future. Silicon Valley’s techno-utopian visions position exploitative and isolationist…
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A Fluidics Cookbook
The artist Ioana Vreme Moser and the curator Diane Pricop are the participants of the Research Lab 2025 under the (working) title ‘Fluidic cookbook’ . In short, the ‘Fluidic cookbook’ embarks on an intimate visual and written essay on an alternative history of computer hardware by reviving fluidics, a mid-20th-century innovation. It dreams of a future where machines are made…
AMRO RL is curated and organized by the servus.at team and funded by Bundeskanzleramt, Land Oberösterreich, Linz Kultur.
The cultural program of servus.at for 2025 is visible at https://core.servus.at/en/servus-archive/2025
See the previous editions of the AMRO Research Lab: https://research.radical-openness.org/
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