STWST at AMRO / STWST EPK

STWST at AMRO

STWST will be represented with the contribution Bloodproof of Life, Part Videoproof at AMRO festival.
Also the nightline will take place in the STWST venue.

AMRO24 – Dancing at the Crossroads
8th–11th May 2024, Linz (AT)

AMRO - Arts Meet Radical Openness is a biennial festival for art, hacktivism and open culture organized since 2008. It is organized by the Linz-based initiative servus.at – Kunst & Kultur im Netz in cooperation with University of Arts Linz, Department of Time-Based Media.

#AMRO24’s theme is “Dancing at the crossroads” and invites its community of artists and technologists, activists and developers to focus on the consequences of work automation and data extraction, the environmental impact of pervasive and all-encompassing computing, and the social consequences of a perhaps resistible rise of total AI.

The festival consists of workshops, exhibition, night performances and interventions.

More info:
https://art-meets.radical-openness.org/2024/

STWST's Bloodproof of Life, Part Videoproof - @ AMRO 2024:

In September 2023, STWST organised the art format Bloodproof of Life - as a collective art action with real lifeblood. An appeal was made in advance: Stadtwerkstatt gives you back your lifeblood - come and get it! A small amount of 4 ml of blood was taken from volunteers. This was followed by several checks of the participants and their Lifeblood, by art actors and critical producers, by survey, seal, blockchain, hash and video proof. The authenticity of blood, participants, hash, chain, video and overall participation in the collective lifeblood project was confirmed in a reciprocal multiple proof. Finally, the participants received their ampoule of lifeblood back as a transformed, certified blood-to-art object suitable for the art market.

During its realisation at STWST, the format led to constant queuing and received a great deal of feedback. Topics between “lifeblood as a resource”, i.e. the critical internal operating systems of engagement, and the currently discussed extraction of resources and the best parts of people, their data, were critically reflected - as well as the technological and social regimes that make this possible.

At AMRO 2024, the video proof part will be shown, plus an installative setting and activation of the open question of where our lives live.

The project was conceived and realised by STWST in 2023 at STWST48x9 COLD HEAVEN in coop with Ars Electronica and carried out with the support of servus.at.

STWST @AMRO 2024 - BLOODPROOF - Part Videoproof:
https://art-meets.radical-openness.org/2024/program/bloodproof-of-life-part-video-proof/
STWST BLOODPROOF OF LIFE 2023:
https://stwst48x9.stwst.at/en/bloodproof_of_life

THIS WAS STWST @ AMRO 2024 -
with the installation of the project “Bloodproof of Life - Part VIDEOPROOF”