WORM X Amarte “Algorithms” (2024) – Selected Projects

This May, WORM & Amarte Fonds launched an open call for four projects on the theme of Algorithms. We were amazed by all the creative ideas submitted by more than 90 collectives. It was not easy to make a final selection but to give the needed support and attention to the participants, we had to make a choice.

Here are the finalists who will develop their projects this autumn at WORM and present their visions of Algorithms at the special event on the 13th of December, 2024.

CAMERA SELF-SURVEILLANCE by Luca Tornato , Christian Schwarz , Roel Weerdenburg
Multi- media Exhibition Installation
An algorithm is a tool that facilitates a network and governs its operations, reflecting society’s need for control and capture. This includes the classification of bodies, nonhumans, and gestures. “Camera Self-Surveillance” is an installation with multiple screens, CCTV cameras, and a recognition algorithm trained on surveillance cameras. Each camera scans for others, creating complex image compositions on scattered screens.
Residency Location – WORM Slash Gallery

FOOLS by Robin Nimanong
Performance
FOOLS is a research by Robin Nimanong together with ballroom artists and discusses topics such as gender and queer liberation. We live in a world where absurd is normal, and normal is absurd. This reflection on society is taken into the world of FOOLS in a not too serious manner, but with extreme care. The binary male-female relationship is deleted through clothing (Eva Marie-Lousie), visual art and music (Guenter Raler) and movement. Ballroom performers and alter egos ‘Nagato, Sugah, Deion and Lily’ are going to challenge this norm.

FOOLS asks: “What is our true nature, in this high-tech, cool-acting, diasporic, binary society of today?” Within the artistic process, a frame is created to find an approach surrounding ‘the fool’ or ‘the weirdo.’ Why and how is this term used now a days?
Residency location: WORM UBIK Theatre

ìpọ̀sìn’s peace
Club night
ìpọ̀sìn’s peace is a Queer & Trans BIPOC collective dedicated to creating spaces for their communities to come together. At WORM they will curate a Queer Afrofuturist club night, complete with performances, video projections, photo exhibitions, pop-up stands and of course fab DJs & MCs.
Residency location: WORM Central Station

Sonic Feminist Fabulations Paula Montecinos Oliva, Megan Hoegter
Radio show & publication
Sonic Feminist Fabulation (SFF) is an experimental radio format that merges performative practice with episodic broadcasts. Featuring Sudamerican sound artists, SFF provides an auditory experience about displacement, emancipatory listening, and diasporic memories. At WORM, choreographer Paula Montecinos Oliva and performance-media historian Megan Hoegter explore alternative paradigms by combining tarot reading and AI prediction. They investigate how algorithmic poetry can help envision an anti-colonial future.
Residency location: WORM Radio, De Boog Printing Studio

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