Right before the local elections, on 12th and 13th October Z33 and FoAM organise a 2 day workshop, led by Heath Bunting and An Mertens. During this workshop you learn how you can create a legal (...)A legal identity for trees
Right before the local elections, on 12th and 13th October Z33 and FoAM organise a 2 day workshop, led by Heath Bunting and An Mertens. During this workshop you learn how you can create a legal (...)Active Taxonomies
The Active Archive team presents their ongoing work at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies. The meeting with several other Spanish cultural institutions is organised in the context of Arts combinatòries, a (...)Active Archives Arteleku
In collaboration with Arteleku, Constant organised a worksession dedicated to the exchange of video material and a introductory lecture with interventions by Jorge Blasco Gallardo and Michael (...)Active Archives: archiving starts now
How can taxonomies of various cultural institutions be brought into relation? How could we develop tools that map differences, variations and overlaps? In what way can we facilitate negotiations (...)Advanced Performance training
For the first trimester of 2008, Constant is invited to participate to the programme and to contribute to the content of the APT postgraduate (part of the Posthogeschool voor Podiumkunsten which (...)Bend, sew, touch, feel, read
To explore the possibilities of bringing electronics closer to bodies and plants we are organizing a workshop with the artists Hannah Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi in which you will learn how to (...)Blender BPY/BGE
Monthly meeting on using Blender as a render engine for Python. The packages BPY and BGE provide api’s for the modelling and game-engine functions of Blender that can be scripted using the (...)
Blender workshop
Blender worksession with focus on using Blender as render engine.
Boektegoed
Ana Foor & Anne Wiel show children how you can turn a memory into a fiction story and how you stitch the story into a selfmade cover. Children make their own book with free software during (...)Busboîtescartesmaps
Busboîtescartesmaps is an event in the framework of the Towards project that combines subjective representations of the Brussels’ terrain which the development of a software for subjective (...)(...) Ciencia, territorio y narrativas subjetivas
The objective of the workshop is to propose a re-narration of the project “(...) Ciencia, territorio y narrativas subjetivas” and explore the scientific language from a feminist perspective. "(...) (...)
!Co LAPse Kode @ CCA
Artist Kirsty Stansfield and storyteller An Mertens will round up their 3 weeks residency at CCA with a workshop for artists and performers, in which they share the results of their research. In (...)Collaborative Online Video
A workshop Open Source Video exploring collaborative practices and tools.Collaborative speculative fiction
Constant is operating within the walls of University Gent with a lecture and a workshop in 4 sessions.
Collective co-positioning
Digital lay-outing tools are path dependent in their way of mimicking the past processes of 600 years of moveable type (and maybe even beyond). Often practice proceeds without extensive critical (...)Collision 1: Badness and Conflict
If we consider typographic and cartographic objects as “spatial arrangement of texts and other graphical elements”, than their design is essentially the work of organising collisions. In a (...)Copyleft::Free Software
Constant member Nicolas Malevé participates in a training on free software by Cesep.Court Circuit Court: Social fabrics: on protocols, textile and salutations
Short Circuit / Short Process is the first edition of PiNG’s Summer Lab. Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will host an atelier on salutations and greeting rituals. Make textile sensors that (...)
Dakar Routines de Rencontres
A workshop by Peter Westenberg in making short videos using open source softwares for audio and video editing organised by Media villa Ker Thiossane in Dakar, Senegal. Participants will (...)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 (...)
Deptford.tv: Collaborative Video
A workshop around online video-editing at Deptford.tv, London.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 (...)
Digitales @ netdays 2004
A week of workshops and meetings to question, open, understand and use computer tools and languages free and open.
ECOS
Les Mouvements "Radieuse": urban gymnastics for the inhabitants of the Maison Radieuse. A series of ’Routes + Routines’ workshops on the relation between architecture, prescription, routine and the (...)ELLENTRIEK #12 : Ellentriek goes High Voltage - HI VOLTAGE! (New dates)
Ellentriek is a series of workshops where artists can come and work together on their own artistic electronics projects. We work with themes. This Ellentriek has two threads happening (...)EMF Orchestra workshop
EMF Orchestra Workshop Workshop leaders: Peter Westenberg and Wendy van Wynsberghe, Constant vzw (art and media), Brussels http://constantvzw.org
Participants: 15 (maximum) Fee: 20 Euro (lunch (...)
Electromagnetickal Arts
Interference-free Foraging Mobility in Brussels on Electromagnetism, Psychogeophysics and Urban Beekeeping
Electromagnetic fields can have adverse effects on living organisms - honeybees are (...)
Ellentriek #13: Audio special
Ellentriek is all about audio in November. We will learn how to build small own amplifiers and microphones, during two long Wednesday afternoons. With a soldering iron, a couple of components, (...)Ellentriek #14: sew - measure - send - receive
Ellentriek is a series of workshops, often collaborative, where artists can come and work together on their own artistic electronics projects, made with open hardware.
This Ellentriek is about (...)
Ellentriek #15 meets Code, Arts & Crafts : Shielded - extend your Arduino
(CC BY-NC 2.0) Some rights reserved, image by _kzr
With an Arduino you can collect a lot of sensor data, from smelling gasses to measuring temperature or light and lots more. But how do you (...)
Ellentriek #17: Hack your knitting machine with Knitic!
Ellentriek goes textile: liberating knitting machines
In the eighties and nineties electronic knitting machines were readily available. But it was never a simple task to knit an image, a (...)
Ellentriek #2
Workshops D.I.Y. hardware & electricityEllentriek #3
Workshops on D.I.Y. hardware & electricityEllentriek #4
In this workshop you can propose your electrical artistic research project. Participate to experiment and learn from each other and from Jonas Nachtergaele, MarcOrakel, Dijf Sanders... (...)Ellentriek #5
At the end of November, there is another Ellentriek session, this time in a slightly ’new’ format. Ellentriek this time is a gathering for Volt-artists-DIY-ers where the relationship between art en (...)Ellentriek #6
Open workshop – bring your own project and let’s make it work … together.
Ellentriek #8 workshop
Open workshop - bring your project involving electronics and let’s work on it together. If you have no specific project in mind, you can come, check it out and get some electric inspiration and a (...)
Ellentriek #9 Sensor me Sensor you
Are you currently working on an electronic tinkering project? Do you want to discover all kinds of buttons, potentiometers, infrared detectors, movement detectors, gassensors, coloursensors, (...)
Ellentriek-Recup
Your copier, scanner or mobile phone is broken and your local thrift store has kindly referred you to the dump? Don’t worry, inside these machines you can find all kinds of treasure, such as (...)
Ellentriek in the parc
What are chips - no - not the ones you eat! How do you make a led burn? Can you sew with electronics?
Come experiment with Ellentriek. Crocodile clamps don’t bite! (We will work under 5 Volt - (...)Encuentros Cartográficos
At the invitation of Nuria Enguita Mayo, Nicolas Malevé, member of Constant and Rafaella Houlstan-Hasaerts participate in the Encuentro Internacional de Medellín (http://www.mde11.org/). Their (...)European Platform for Alternative Practice and Research on the City (Peprav)
Peprav is a project that is partly financed by the CULTURE2000-program of the European Union.
The platform formalizes a collective critical research on urban alternatives in the city: (...)Free Operations
Workshop with open source tools only:
content that belongs to the Public Domain
fonts that allows us to change them and redistribute them
open source software
Starting point is the (...)
Freedom of Association in the Networked Workplace
A workshop proposed by The Strickland Distribution, an artist-run group supporting the development of independent research in art-related and non-institutional practices. The workshop runs (...)
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 (...)Ipatchwork
In the framework of the ’Laundry Day’, Constant (Wendy van Wynsberghe) co-produced iPatchwork organised by the ADA network. iPatchwork provided an opportunity to learn basic skills of video-editing (...)
Kdenlive worksession
Kdenlive is a complete open-source non lineair timeline edit software for Linux and OSX. We will collectively discover the ins and outs of the software and how to make use of its strong points. (...)
LG-school
One day before the Libre Graphics meeting starts, Constant organises LG-school, aimed at teachers and students from art- and design schools in Belgium and abroad. LG-school is an intense day (...)
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 (...)LabtoLab Nantes: Digital Cultures Laboratory
LABtoLAB is a European network of media labs that aims to create a platform for:
sharing experiences and ways of doing;
studying specific cases;
exploring the role of the lab in offering (...)Le Quotidien sous contrôle
Workshop in the framework of the week of the Human Rights liga, focussing on the project Yoogle! (project presentation + atelier). These activities envision elucidating the veiled economic (...)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 & (...)Linux & Audio
In this course, Lieven Moors will give an introduction to the GNU/Linux system from the viewpoint of a musician, and give an overview of some of the most influential open source projects for (...)
Linux Audio #6
A collaboration between Bxlug, Radio Panik, Radio Campus, Radio Air Libre, collectifs.net and Constant, amongst others.Moving scale
OSP free typography workshop using the streets of Brussels as a playground on multiple scales. Performances, treasure hunts and walks all feed into the design of a collaborative (...)
OSP/Nancy@Make Art
The theme of the 2010 edition of the Make Art festival is in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art. OSP will give a presentation and will be part of the exhibition with the (...)
OSP @ Open Design Week
5 members of the design-collective OSP travel to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to participate in Open Design Week. From 3-10 April they tour through the Mekong Delta to meet local F/LOSS fans (...)Open Content
A workshop conducted by Nicolas Malevé in the framework of Becoming.be organized by Cargo vzw, on collaborative practices of creation.OpenStreetMap
Benjamin Henrion who joined the July cartography workshop talked about the openstreetmap project (1). We organize a first workshop on open cartography of the center of Brussels.
We wander (...)Opening Zennestraat 17 rue de la Senne
Constant presents during the opening weekend of this temporarily shared space:
Room 2 - Take Away Archive
A retrospective of books, posters and flyers, published by Constant since 1997. A (...)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 (...)Ping!
Constant workshop for the 1st edition of experimental arts festival in Mallorca on collaborative and open practices in creative fields.Print Party 2: Digitales
From document to publication: the trajectory of a text up to its printing, and this by the sole means of open source software. Participants to Digitales discover the programs and are invited to (...)Przetwory 6: Media lab workshop
This weekend will be an introduction into textile and electronics. We will look at the integration of sensors and soft buttons into sewn and knitted projects. We will include a small introduction (...)Publiactie
Integrated design conference + gathering words for our lexiconPure data patching circle Brussels @ Variable #05
The Patching Circles are open workshop session to learn and share about the pure-data software and other.
During this session, we’ll see how we can stream sound video and datas from and to (...)
Python week
From 12 to 16 September 2011, Les Samedies (Women and Free Software) organise a week of Python. Every morning we meet in the Gallait House to teach ourselves this programming (...)
¿Qué coño tiene que ver la música, con la industria y el feminismo (en un centro de arte)?
A series of meetings, debates, interviews and a documentation room on the process of music production and its relationship with feminist practices. In collaboration with Montse Romani (Barcelona) (...)
Read*Write*Execute*
Read*Write*Execute* Un proyecto de centrodearte.com en colaboracion con Constant
Read*Write*Execute*, numero 2 de la revista & foro de centrodearte.com, plantea un analisis de la web como (...)
Samedies
The workshop series “Samedies/Women & free software” brings together a diverse group of women to learn about building, maintaining or simply understanding a server.
Organised in collaboration (...)Samedies #10: Legal aspects
Responsabilities of maintaining a server and questions on privacy
Samedies #11: Last make-up Amaya
The common language at the Samedies is French, therefore the rest of this message is in French.
Amaya (notre machine :-) dispose maintenant d’un serveur Web (Apache), de bases de données (MySQL) (...)
Samedies #12: launch Amaya
Common language at the Samedies is French, therefore this message is continued in French.
Nous ne savons pas encore si Amaya sera notre plaine de jeux et de tests, un abri pour des projets (...)
Samedies #13: Re-play
The common language in the Samedies is French, therefore the following message is in French:
Deuxième expérience nomade : après un accueil à l’asbl Constant vzw, les Samedis se dérouleront aux (...)
Samedies #14: Security
A worksession about security in Debian/Apache/MySQL/PHP.
Samedies #15: Festive closure
Festive closure of the second Samedi season with performances, presentations and talks.
Samedies #16: Total Reboot Amaya
Amaya will resurrect in her proper DMZ and with a new domain name: http://www.samedies.be
Samedies #17: Reconnecting Amaya & working groups
The ladies of Samedies will reconnect the server Amaya, reconfigure and reinstall her and start organising work groups to keep her going in a good and fertile (...)
Samedies #18: Running projects
Workgroups svn & mysql, dealing with dns & nameserver. And as usual: collective problemsolving, lunch & closure
Samedies #19: Mysql, Trac & toolkit
Workgroups MySQL & TRAC
Brainstorm on future interventions at IF3
Brainstorming for the "toolkit" : how to react to sexist clichés
Brainstorming on closing samedies in (...)
Samedies #20: Hosting cms eo
Host projects:
wikis, spip, mediawiki, dokuwiki, wordpress and other.
Samedies #21: Mysql & back-up
Repair MySQL
study manuals for backup
Samedies #23: Starhawk & feminist plays
Last Samedie of the season:
14h - 17h : Workshop with Anouk Adel on collective practises by Starhawk: English - reservation required
17h-19h : presentations by An Mertens (Français: Quand Donna, (...)
Samedies #26: The magic goes on!
French is the language spoken during the Samedies-meetings, therefore the content of this post is in French. Tx for your comprehension.
Au programme:
10:00 Accueil: koekjes, hugs & échanges (...)
Samedies #27: My preferred script
The collective of women & free software will meet up again for a day of code, discussion, server management, exchange of ideas & experiences and writing & translating articles. (...)
Samedies #37: Ninja Samedies
Samedies is a collective of women using free software. The Ninja Samedies will be a meeting around the following back-up tools: cron, rsync, tar, dump, clé privé & public, rdiff backup.
The (...)
Samedies #38: Sources
The Samedies will meet around the practices of installing from source (a.o. freeplane, fontmatrix, scribus....)
Samedies is a collective of women using free software. The language spoken at (...)
Samedies #8: Configure & observe
Because French is the current language at the Samedies, the rest of this article will be in French.
C’est la rentrée des Samedis, femmes et logiciels libres, une série de rencontres qui ont débuté (...)
Samedies #9: Install, configurations, organisation
Because the current language of the Samedies is French, the following message will be in French. Tx for your comprehension!
Amaya (notre machine :-) dispose maintenant d’un serveur Web (Apache) (...)
Soundlab:auratory
Ten artists lead us to experience sound perceptions in the form of walks, discussions, experiments & workshops around the topic of Seeing Sound.
Soundlab: auratory starts on May the 14th at (...)
Spiderwomen 3: Wiki workshop
Constant member An Mertens and 2 other members of Samedies (Agnes Bewer, Juliane de Moerloze) organise a workshop about wikis at Amazone, resource centre for equality between women and men. (...)
Splinter Fields
Splinter Fields is an initiative of Brussels based organizations active within the fields of technological and media arts (Constant, FoAM, nadine and OKNO) to foster collaborative, agile and (...)
Stitch and Split creative work sessions
Science Fiction proposes methods, which could also be of use in everyday human relationships. In the interpretation Constant puts to the fore and explicitates to the students, science fiction is (...)Stitching Stories
a textile sound & digital cartography, based on interviews, between testimony and fictionSurveillance workshop
A preparatory workshop for the walk on 7 august (see link) to map surveillance camera’s in public places. In collaboration with the Nova in the framework of the Pleinopenair festival (...)
Tagging Matters: Kitchentable presentaties
Tagging Matters explores the writerly work of tagging in relation to ideas behind the Semantic Web. Active Archives started on the principle of "we are no islands", looking for ways of linking (...)Talk and open workshop session, Online Archive: Erkki Kurenniemi (In 2048)
For the past few months, Michael Murtaugh and Nicolas Malevé have been running a series of experiments with a subset of the archive of Erkki Kurenniemi, artists and technology pioneer who (...)Territorial Practice
A two day workshop on F/LOSS cartographic tactics at the Israeli Center for Digital Art in the framework of the International Conference ’Open Sources versus Military Culture?’ organised by Tsila (...)The Body as Billboard
Geuzennamen, emporwerment, networking and textile workshops
The human condition in the digital age
In the framework of "The human condition in the digital age" organized by Banlieues and CFS. Using the game Yoogle! as a starting point, we will analyze the traces we left behind while surfing (...)
Toonloop workshop
Are you working with children and multi-media? Toonloop is a tool to make animations on the fly. In this one day workshop you’ll be guided through possibilities offered by of the softwares. The (...)
Towards
Towards is a collection of subjective cartographic representations of Brussels connected to the creation of a collaborative tool for subjective cartography.Transmedia - Workshop 2003
Workshop - seminar on the notion of empowerment, in the framework of the postgraduate in art-media-design in Sint-Lukas Hogeschool, Brussels
Transmedia - Workshop
Workshop-seminar about the strategies and realities of autonomous digital platforms.
Visualizing Transnationalism / Cluj Napoca
In the framework of the Transeuropa festival, a transnational festival happening simultaneously in 12 cities throughout Europe, the GenderArtNet’s team and Lorenzo Sandoval will give a cartography (...)Workshop Ellentriek #7
Open workshop - bring your project involving electronics and let’s work on it together. If you have no specific project in mind, you can come, check it out and get some electric inspiration and a (...)
Workshop Open Video Libre
Four days with: presentations, exercises, tests and help. Which computer parts are needed / essential? Test softwares, scripts and tricks. In the evenings, Pirate Cinema from Berlin shows films (...)
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, (...)
(a little step) Beyond prototyping
Ellentriek (Constant & Pianofabriek) meets Code, Arts & Crafts (iMAL) to propose an advanced level workshop on building Arduino-like constructions. A little step towards autonomy and (...)
re/touches
In the weekend of the 17th of December we will look at the act of repairing. We focus on textile and clothing, looking how something is woven, stitched together, consisting of threads and (...)