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Revision as of 11:47, 8 January 2012
WORM is a Rotterdam based non-profit foundation and a multi-media alternative cultural centre focused on experimental, avant-garde and underground art, primarily music and movies. WORM is funded by the Triodos Bank and part of the culture nota 2009-2012 from the Dutch government. The foundation has received the Pendrecth Culture Price and it's venue is part of the Rotterdam culture plan.
WORM organises festivals and concerts, movie nights, runs an independent record label, a radio station and music studio. The music studio has a large collection of vintage analogue synths such as the ARP 2500 inherited from the Centrum voor Electronische Muziek (CEM). This studio runs a free artist in residence programm for experimental musicians. Besides the venue and studio the foundation also has a shop with left field music, art house movies and books about subjects related to the cultural focus of the organisation.
WORM developed the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. The organisation co-operates closely with International Film Festival Rotterdam,[1] Poetry International, Incubate,[2] State-X New Forms, Museumnacht.[3]
WORM was based at the Achterhaven till 2010. In 2011 it moved to the centre of Rotterdam and is currently located in the building formerly used as the Nederlands Fotomuseum (Dutch Photomuseum).
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