In the framework of the digitalisation project ’Archipel’ Constant developed the ’Active Archives Videowiki’ in collaboration with BAM. During the closure event of the Archipel project Michael (...)AA Videowiki presentation in Archipel conference
In the framework of the digitalisation project ’Archipel’ Constant developed the ’Active Archives Videowiki’ in collaboration with BAM. During the closure event of the Archipel project Michael (...)AFTERNOON TOPOGRAPHY SESSIONS IV – NEW (MEDIA) TOPOGRAPHY
New media conceptualize space in terms of interhuman and concrete relationships. Their cartographic representation show how these different dimensions are linked to each other and tries to (...)Academy Commons
Academy Commons is a platform conceived to connect and reinforce research practices beyond academic boundaries.
Nicolas Malevé, member of Constant, together with team mates Anja Steidinger and (...)Artefact Symposium: Location Based Media
Constant member Peter Westenberg presents his project World Wide Westwijk; a semi-permanent mediative neighbourhood intervention and site specific collective video-workplace in Vlaardingen, (...)Book Launch
The book Woorden uit de Berenkuil/Words from La Cage aux Ours will be festively launched in Passaporta, where we are hosted by Entrez Lire. There will beinhabitants reading fragments of the book, (...)
Booklaunch @ 1030
The artistic dictionary ’Mots de la Cage aux Ours/Woorden uit de Berenkuil’ will be presented in the Bibliothèque Sésame in presence of the makers and slammer Maky. Maky who spent his adolescence (...)
Bookpresentation CROSS-over. Kunst, Media en Technologie in Vlaanderen
The Open Source Publishing team designed CROSS-over, a publication on art, media and technology in Flanders. The publication is edited by Liesbeth Huybrechts and published by BAM and Lanoo. (...)By Data We Mean
Presentation of V/J12 e-publication in Constant VariableCIAO/Tot Later
In 2008 An presented the beta-version of the distributed novel ’CIAO/Tot Later’ in the exhibition Place@Space/NowHere in Z33 Hasselt. Years passed by and now she’s ready to present CIAO/Tot Later - (...)CIK on stage
Wendy Van Wynsberghe introduces My Cuisine Interne Keuken, an interview database & tool on the conditions of work, on Sunday 25 may during the Eclectic Tech Carnival, organized by the (...)CPDP Pecha Kucha
During this years Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference the video Staring will be shown. This video results from the Ballade sous video surveillance collaboration between the (...)Call for presentations: Libre Graphics Meeting
The Libre Graphics Meeting will take place 10-13 April in Madrid. The event welcomes your contribution and is looking for in-depth presentations on Libre Graphics technologies, showcases of (...)
Canadian Printing Breakfast
The Open Source Publishing team would like to serve you their latest adventures in free software for breakfast. With amongst other things a lay-out application animating a fairy tale, a software (...)Club Variable: Emma Hedditch
Emma Hedditch is an artist from the UK who has been staying at the Constant Variable residency since early October. Emma makes performances and videos, and volunteers for Cinenova, a film and (...)Code Tasting / Graphical Shell prototype (GSp)
At this autumn Code Tasting, we’ll try out Graphical Shell, a prototype developed by Pierre Marchand in the context of the Libre Graphics Research Unit. His proposal links the ’tick’ of a program to (...)Housewarming!
For the next three years Constant runs a F/LOSS Arts Lab in the rue Gallait straat 80. This modularly conceived workspace and its makers cordially invite you to come and have a look at what they (...)Cuisine Interne Keuken demo
A mini demo of ’My Cuisine Interne Keuken’ by Wendy Van Wynsberghe, followed by interviews on the first floor of The Laboureur, done with a flexible Python interviewing (...)De Taalpolitie
De Taalpolitie (The Language Police) is a project by Constant member Peter Westenberg developped for the exhibition Satellite of Love. The format is a vlog (video weblog) about the word (...)
Digital Content Distribution
Under the claim "professionalize the professionals" the Erich Pommer Institut, supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, is offering a series of workshops within its programme (...)
Digital Work
Digital Work was both a conference and a workshop organised by the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Constant was invited to join the workshop and Laurence Rassel gave a lecture in the panel (...)
Dorkbot: Softwearables
Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will present her Softwearables trajectory during Dorkbot at iMAL. It will be a combination of softsensors, proximity and (...)
Expanded Publications #10: Oral Site
Sneak preview by Sarma & Constant
Oral Site is a new open source software and website that Myriam Van Imschoot develops with a team of programmers, writers and sound specialists of Sarma, (...)Feminism is on the agenda
Nicolas Malevé and Femke Snelting participate in this one day workshop that looks into how practices motivated by personal questions in relation to gender can be responsive to specific spatial and (...)
Finissage Woordenwinkel
The final day of the Word-Shop temporary housing for the Language of Schaarbeek. has come. Today will be the last opportunity to visit us here, to listen to the database and the radio broadcasts (...)For Your Eyes Only
Constant members An Mertens and Wendy Van Wynsberghe will present the e-traces project and Yoogle! at the conference For Your Eyes Only, organised in the framework of the EMSOC-project.
The (...)
GenderArtNet @Cuerpo Impropio
Maria PtqK and Nicolas Malevé will present the GenderArtNet project - http://www.genderartnet.eu - in the seminar “Cuerpo Impropio, guia de modelos somapoliticos y de sus posibles usos desviados”. (...)GenderArtNet’s presentation
GenderArtNet is an experimental mapping project that contextualises and connects artists, artistic practices, projects and organisations exploring the interrelation of gender, ethnicity, race, (...)General State of Affairs: Creation of a future – the word to the Fine Arts Field
At the invitation of IBK (Fine Arts Initiative), Laurence Rassel, Constant member, will participate in a workshop on the relationships between art centers and museums, and the relationships (...)HDYD: Variable + AA
’How do you do’ is a low treshold meeting during which makers explain ’the making of’ succesful digital and technological projects.
Peter Westenberg wil lead one session about Active Archives and (...)
Journées du libre
Constant members Femke Snelting and Wendy van Wynsberghe talk about how and why cultural workers engage themselves with Free culture.Kunstenwerkplaats Reflection afternoon
Kunstenwerkplaatsen (Art labs) are a broad category of divers initiatives difficult to capture under one umbrella. Fact is that they are all research based, and center stage artistic development. (...)L’image qu’on se fait de nous
Which images do media, companies, histories produce on us? Let’s start from the image of new technology, how are they represented, how are we represented in relation with (...)
LGM@Open Design Conference
Presentation of the LGRU project during the closing party of the Open Design Conference held in Barcelona, organized by the FAD. The conference brings together designers and thinkers who share an (...)
La repolitizacion del espacio sexual en las practicas contemporaneas.
Lecture, video program and group discussion by Laurence Rassel during a seminar organised by the Erreakzioa group and Maria José Belbel on critical feminism and queer politics in the art (...)
LabSurLab
An Mertens will represent Constant at LabSurLab, collaborating in a workshop on Digital Tools for Performing Arts, moderating a round table about Women & Technology and co-presenting the (...)Libre Graphics Meeting 2011
OSP will participate in the 6th Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal with three talks and also co-organises a workshop weekend and an exhibition in StudioXX.
LGM is an opportunity for give (...)Libre Graphics Meeting: Relaying Systems
Presentation by Constant members Femke Snelting and Harrison during the annual meeting around free software for graphical work.
Why designers should be interested in (...)Libre Graphics Meeting
OSP (Open Source Publishing) travels to Wroclaw, Poland to participate in the Libre Graphics Meeting Days 2008. With amongst others: a Print Party, a workshop and a presentation.
Audio & (...)Libre Graphics Research Unit @ Baltan Laboraties
Femke presents the Libre Graphics Research Unit, a traveling lab where new ideas for creative tools are developed. Its diverse activities range from the practical to the theoretical via writing, (...)
Meisjes in Migrantees? ’Faciles à garer’
Reportage leaving Schaarbeek to go to the booklaunch in Passaporta, Brussel Deze Week, 24 October 2012
Open Sauces
Femke Snelting contributes to the grand FoAM Open Sauces dinner with a toast on redundancy-free cooking.Open Source Publishing Briefing
Together with Mute’s Simon Worthington and Laura Oldenburg, OSP participates to the NM-X network evening. We present our experiences with free software for designers, and discuss problems and (...)Parallel publishing
In the publishing business, the term ’parallel publishing’ is used to describe the production of the same content or information in more than one medium (typically paper and screen).
The Open (...)Pecha Kucha about !Co LAPse KoDe
An will present the work of !Co LAPse KoDe in 20 slides and 400 seconds. Please register beforehand if you would like to assist.
Plankton Bar #39 & Softwearables
The month of March and April 2011, Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe is doing a residency in Bains::Connective. For the first public moment of this residency, Plankton Bar #39 on the first of (...)Plutonian Striptease: social network platforms
This talk will provide elements to think about social network platforms and the evolution of national and international legal agreements. We will examine the processes of homogenization of the (...)Presentation @ Packed
Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe presents during this study-afternoon that questions the role of intellectual property in the creation of media-arts. Wat are the risks for musea buying arts (...)Project presentation
Presentation of a research and possible development of free software in collaboration with cultural institutes (software-modules, presentations, exchange (...)RE | BOOT
Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe presents Constant’s work during the launch event of the New Media lab of Area 10. The media lab is dedicated to working with Free Libre / Open Source tools. () (...)Round-table discussion: Co-position
How can we re-imagine lay-out from scratch? What tools do we need to support decentralized collaboration? How can we bring together canvas editing, dynamic lay-outs, web-to-print and Print On (...)
Round-up for scores, people, objects & others
The players of !Co LAPse KoDe have been kindly hosted in De Pianofabriek Kunstenwerkplaats for the transdisciplinary research on their work with the free motion tracking software objscrs during (...)
Samedies #15: Festive closure
Festive closure of the second Samedi season with performances, presentations and talks.
Sarma Salon#7: Scores and Constraints
An Mertens will present a statement on working with scores in the 7th Salon organised by Sarma & Workspace Brussels. Many performance artists work with scores or self-imposed constraints. (...)Seminar Sound + Art: Curating and Interfacing Archives
As part of Systemics #1 programme, Kunsthal Aarhus hosts a public seminar on the issues of experiencing, remembering and curating sound art/sound archives. Members of Constant, Michael Murtaugh (...)
Sniff, Scrape, Crawl …
“Sniff, Scrape, Crawl…” is an ongoing interdisciplinary research project. Through a series of workshops, debates, lectures and presentations, the thematic project was launched with this event in (...)Sniff and sneak through my archives
A presentation of the project Erkki Kurenniemi (In 2048) in the framework of Archives of Software Art, an event organized by Jussi Parikka and Burak Arikan. The presentation will take as a point (...)
Space cowboys
Constant member Peter Westenberg participates in this two day workshop that aims to enable sharing and mapping of experiences, thoughts and visions around creative expressions of hybrid space. (...)Studienamiddag e-cultuur
Participation to the study conference on ’e-culture and participation’. In the framework of this gathering ensuing from the publication ’E-cultuur. Bouwstenen voor praktijk en beleid’, Constant (...)The Laurence Rassel Show discussed
At the occasion of Terre Thaemlitz’ residency at the York University Music Research Centre under the direction of Tony Myatt, The Laurence Rassel Show will be discussed and presented as well as (...)Transcommunautaire Karaoke Transcommunautaire
Installation at Passaporta during BRXLBRAVO with texts of Paul Van Ostaijen and Suzanne Lilar.
All visitors lend their voice to the computer. One can hear how the machine presents the two texts (...)VJ11.1 O b j e c t S c o r e N o t a t i o n
What is Constant cooking? Which are the experiments, questions, techniques and words they are combining? With Verbindingen/Jonctions 11 Constant invites you into the heart of her daily practice. (...)Visualizing Transnationalism, presentations.
A grid divides the map in eight regions. Each region has a label: “Ornamental”, “Geolyrical”, “Taxonomical”, “Afraid of tomorrow”, “Fermentational”, “Miraculous”, “Exobotanical”, “The end of the world”. (...)Wijk Schaarbeek met eigen woordenboek
Report booklaunch Passaporta, Het Nieuwsblad, 22 October 2012
Yoogle! workshop
Yoogle! is an online game allowing users to play with the parameters of the web 2.0 and to exchange roles between the different actors of its economy. At the occasion of 7/24:30! - Technologie, (...)