Contributors 2018

Dr. Pablo DeSoto is an architect, scholar and educator with an iconoclastic experience across geographic and disciplinary borders. He is the editor of three books Fadaiat, Freedom of Movement and Freedom of knowledge, Situation Room: Designing a Prototoype of a Citizen Situation Room and After Video Assemblages. In the 2000s he was co-founder of hackitectura.net, a group of architects, computer specialists and activists. Pablo is currently Guest Lecturer at Umeå University School of Architecture.
 

Patrice Riemens, social geographer, advocate of free and open source software and member of the Dutch hackers group the Hippies from Hell.

Roel Roscam Abbing is an artist and researcher whose work engages with the issues and cultures surrounding networked computation. He engages with themes such as network infrastructures, the politics of technology and do-it-yourself approaches. He holds a Fine Arts BA from the Willem De Kooning Academy and an MA in Networked Media from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

Sabina Hyoju Ahn is an artist who works with various media, sound and natural materials. She has broadened her artistic spectrum in New York, Seoul, London and The Hague. Sabina is a graduate of MA in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths University in London and Mmus in ArtScience at Royal Conservatoire & Royal Academy of Art. Her research involves finding hidden rules and patterns in natural elements and translating it into different shapes of perceptual experiences.

Sam Bunn is a multi disciplinary artist living and working in Linz. His work explores the incomplete and the prototype using a mixture of humour and desire. His master thesis is about the absence of positive utopias from mainstream film and how art can be a good breeding ground to address that problem.

States of Clay aka Anna Masala is an Austrian composer, musician and performance artist, living between Salzburg, Linz and Vienna. In the last years she has also performed in different collaborations, e. g. Fudkanista, Morgenstuhl or Mit Händen und Füßen.

Stefan Tiefengraber lives and works in Linz, Austria. His work ranges from kinetic sound installations and interactive installations to audio-video noise performances. Tiefengraber experiments with the modification of devices, which are originally manufactured for different purposes. Combined with the perception of the audience, this experimental attempt of exploring old and new materials leads him to new and unpredictable results.

Taro is a long term artist in residency at Station Messschiff Eleonore in Linz. He is at ease with working, observing, researching, experimenting and playing [with] the fringes of science, art, politics, life, realities.

The cooperation project 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.