In May 2024, 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!
These were the finalists who developed their projects in the autumn of 2024 at WORM and presented their visions at Break the Algorithm 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” was an installation with multiple screens, CCTV cameras, and a recognition algorithm trained on surveillance cameras. Each camera scanned for others, creating complex image compositions on scattered screens.
Residency Location – WORM Slash Gallery
FOOLS by Robin Nimanong
Performance
FOOLS was a research by Robin Nimanong, together with a number of Ballroom artists. It discussed topics such as gender and queer liberation. We live in a world where absurd is normal, and normal is absurd. This reflection on society was taken into the world of FOOLS in a not-too-serious manner, but with extreme care. The binary male-female relationship was deleted through clothing (Eva Marie-Lousie), visual art and music (Guenter Raler) and movement. Ballroom performers and alter egos ‘Nagato, Sugah, Deion and Lily’ also challenged this norm.
FOOLS asked: “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 nowadays?
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 curated 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) was an experimental radio format that merges performative practice with episodic broadcasts. Featuring Sudamerican sound artists, SFF provided an auditory experience about displacement, emancipatory listening and diasporic memories. At WORM, choreographer Paula Montecinos Oliva and performance-media historian Megan Hoegter explored alternative paradigms by combining tarot reading and AI prediction. They investigated how algorithmic poetry can help envision an anti-colonial future.
Residency location: WORM Radio, De Boog Printing Studio
The final event Break the Algorithm took place on December 13, 2024.