March 2025 - February 2026

  • February

  • Immersion cooling is an emerging technology increasingly used in data centers. All the computers are submerged in a special oil, a supposedly more efficient cooling solution than “traditional” air conditioning and ventilation. Since oil lacks the corrosive effects of oxygen, it is in a sense a (…)

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    In this part of the Otherworldly Communications thematic year*, we go a step further with helping, counting and digitizing the species we encounter. The online (…)

  • March

  • Two days of return to ground, research of electronic legacies, recognition of mineral ancestors, dissolution of black boxes.
    The complexity of electronic devices keeps increasing, their size keeps shrinking. Through miniaturization and embedding, they saturate cities and houses, public and (…)

  • "How does the digitised world keep its promises?"
    Welcome to the gesticulated lecture by Maxime Berrin. Every 2nd Monday of the month, Constant’s partners, the non-profit organisations Neutrinet and Tactic co-organise critical reflection and action encoutners on the digital world. These (…)

  • Join us for a study day of the "Physarum polycephalum", a slime mold, or myxomycete, popularly known as the Blob, in the context of the yearly trajectory called Otherworldly communications.
    Otherworldly communications is framed by researching interspecies cohabitation and communication which, (…)

  • IN SHORT: Otherwordly communications will look at interspecies coexistence and their different arrangements of life. By life in this context we mean biological, geological, digital, immaterial, time/space or beyond.
    With a wish to find other ways of relating and engaging with technology than (…)

  • Constant had the pleasure to take part at the opening of the project Q(ee)R Codes - New Boundaries BXL 1000 by sound artist and radio maker Anna Raimondo.
    Opening & Sound Walk : Saturday 29 March 2025 at 14:00 at the Monument to the Pigeon-Soldier - Schuitenkaai 1 Quai aux Barques, 1000 (…)

  • April

  • Keywords: workshop, electronics, cooling oil, data centers, speculation, robotics.
    Artist Igor Bobbeldijk invites you to a session where we will be diving into how to build robotic creatures capable of living in a special oil used as a cooling technology —supposedly more efficient than (…)

  • Police forces around the world are now relying on algorithms to analyse their databases and predict future crimes or profile potential culprits. Belgium is no exception. In Antwerp, in the Brussels suburbs and on the Belgian coast, local police areas have launched so-called ‘predictive’ (…)

  • Constant is very happy to invite you to the launch of its yearly Zine!
    In 2024 accessibility was central to our program. This Zine gives an impression of different perspectives and reflections on accessibility that were developed during our activities.
    The Zine was compiled during a three (…)

  • Join us for a study day on waste and toxicity in the context of the yearly trajectory called Otherworldly communications.
    Otherworldly communications is framed by researching interspecies cohabitation and communication which, we hope, will tell us about modes of relating to and engaging with (…)

  • May

  • Join us on the 3rd of May, 2025, for an open session of the ConfusingCodingClub.
    We have a new wave of data-center conversations to be developed and collectively explore some tool-based proposals for resistance. There will be some pin machines present.
    Bring your crafting energies, computers (…)

  • Recent years have been characterized by a strong concentration of IT platforms and an almost total monopoly on large-scale computing infrastructures. Flagship image-generation software products such as Dall-e or Adobe Firefly are a case in point. However, the hard work of communities of (…)

  • Opening installation: Thursday 15/05/2025 from 18:00 on Cilia Centric Workshop: Friday 27/06/2025 15:00 -> 18:00
    cilia:
    a tiny wiggly hair on a cell transmitting motions for animals, plants, fungi... to sense vibrations
    This installation in the window of Constant invites to you to (…)

  • Atelier in Beeld is an open studio weekend for visual artists across Flanders and Brussels. It’s the perfect opportunity for artists to open the doors to their studios, or for visitors to discover inspiring work in unique settings.
    Constant Studio a.k.a. Figs, Pears & Euphorbias will (…)

  • This session invites interested people to come together and read the EU AI Act collectively which was approved, after years of deliberation, in the summer of 2024.
    It is worth looking at the AI Act as it shapes an imagination of AI and how it can and cannot be regulated. Companies and (…)

  • Join us for a day where we will connect to Constant’s ongoing theme of Otherworldly Communications*, trying to attune to transmissions that come from elsewhere: from ancestors, from clouds, from unpayable debts.
    *Otherworldly communications researches how different forms of life co/exist and (…)

  • June

  • Artist Amélie Berrodier invites local residents and regular visitors to the Pianofabriek to take part in a participatory installation as part of the exhibition Nom, Prénom, Rue du Fort 35, 1060 Saint-Gilles, Belgique.
    As objects are collected, the installation evolves, gradually building a (…)

  • From the re-election of Donald Trump and the allegiance of the tech giants to his far-right policies, to the genocide in Gaza, digital technologies are playing a major role in the ongoing massacres, whether on the media or technological fronts.
    Against this sombre backdrop, the fifth issue of (…)

  • This year Constant focuses on how different forms of life co/exist and circulate in the midst of damage and toxicity; it is an invitation to sit in the presence of these lives, toxic but nevertheless persistent.
    During the worksession Otherwordly Communications, a group of people from (…)

  • a tiny wiggly hair on a cell
    transmitting motions
    for animals, plants, fungi...
    to sense vibrations
    |/|\ A research afternoon of crafty imaginings ||/|
    Cilia have many shapes and sizes. They exist on a different scale. We will look at all kinds of representations of these haircells and (…)

  • Keywords: pcb board, circuit making, electronics, mapping, oracle, earth, soil, garden, elements, oracle, cyberwitching
    Continuing with our track of cyberwitching, Lucía* will join us at our studio to host a hands on workshop to map out the semiconductivity of the garden.
    We will etch maps (…)

  • July

  • For the past three months, Imane and Martino from Constant have been working through the temporalities of times with the students of the special issue 27 at @xpub
    Three threads have been guiding the sessions:
    the micro-time of computer processes — the super-fast cycles happening constantly (…)

  • Constant joins the next infra-resistance meeting in Barcelona
    Infra-resistance meetings are intensive, trans-local, semi-public gatherings around and for internationalist infrastructural resistance against deadly regimes and extractive assumptions.
    Spread over three half-day sessions, this (…)

  • Join us for yet another session of a confusing coding situations! This time we are joined by Steven Jouwersma* who will guide us through a meditation to a hyperscaler.
    Hyperscalers are large and very adaptable data centres that scale their capacity to the ever changing flow of data. In the (…)

  • August

  • Installation by Alexandre Mulongo Finkelstein and Livia Cahn Opening: Thursday 28 August 2025, 18:00 - 21:00
    To build upwards, takes a lot of digging down. Brussels is partly built on sand (SiO2, silicon dioxide). This sand was probably deposited by a tropical sea or a delta. In the Middle (…)

  • September

  • 14 October will mark the end of support for Windows 10, an operating system that is still used on many computers around the world. As a result, only the most recent computers will be compatible with the new version of Microsoft’s OS, effectively rendering many still-functional computers (…)

  • "Dear organiser, worker in a public institution, tutor, student, activist, We know you’re fed up. So are we. That’s why we decided to write you this letter: as we are facing down another September-September still stuck with everyday digital infrastructures provided by companies such as Google, (…)

  • In the framework of the installation Vertical Stories by Alexandre Mulongo Finkelstein and Livia Cahn in the window of Constant, the artists will animate an informal and speculative get together.
    It will be a collective reflection on what the underground holds. We’re calling on neighbors with (…)

  • In the framework of the 2025 edition of iMAL’s festival, The Cookery, our colleague Imane will participate to a round table on the topic of intersectionality in tech.
    The aim of this panel is to bring together voices that are thinking about technology from between the ’margins’, while (…)

  • October

  • Constant has the pleasure to announce the launch of the Issue #21 of PARSE Journal: Ecologies of dissemination by Femke Snelting and Eva Weinmayr.
    Our colleague Elodie Mugrefya has been part of the advisory board supporting this project.
    This issue of PARSE Journal starts from the tangled (…)

  • Opening: Tuesday 07 - 10 - 2025 18:00 → 21:00 Workshop: Thursday 30 – 10 – 2025 18:00 → 21:00
    When does a tree’s sap start flowing, when do trees get to work in the morning, when does their trunk grow most? During one year, the artists of the Anaïs Berck collective* measured the movements of (…)

  • Anne-Laure Buisson, Gijs de Heij, and An Mertens welcome you to a three-hour workshop around the Tree Times installation.
    One of the installation’s components is the diaries of the three Scots pines. You can request fragments via text message. Each fragment consists of two parts: an (…)

  • November

  • In many situations, instant messaging services are very useful. Many groups recognise this and use them extensively. If someone doesn’t reply, a short message — on the same platform — ensures that important communication is not forgotten. How convenient! Not to mention that group messages and (…)

  • Join us for this last session of the year where we introduce slow-simmered Cantonese herbal soup traditions through a shared commitment to speculative, intersectional, and embodied technologies of care. In this hands-on session, soup-making becomes both a medium and a method, which is a living (…)

  • Launch event: Thursday 27-11-2025 18:00 → 21:00
    Hormonobotanik is a project focusing on medicinal plants, their phytohormonal properties and their uses in transition processes, initiated by Flo*Souad Benaddi in 2019. This long-term artistic research, initially begun out of necessity, has (…)

  • December

  • During its 2023-2027 artistic programme, Constant publishes an annual Zine showing a subjective overview of what happened during the year. The focus of 2025 was on Otherworldly communications, a research around interspecies cohabitation and communication. In this small, subjective publication we (…)

  • Zombitron is an open-source research project started by Clara Rigaud allowing the design of new interactive devices made with obsolete smartphones. In our research workshop we will focus on making music together with the existing Zombitron. But we will go a step further.
    The aim is to explore (…)

  • Join us for two study days on the 10 & 11 December around the figure of the urban rat in the context of the yearly trajectory called Otherworldly communications.
    These study days are meant to critically engage with different conceptions of the ’other’ as in: other than human, otherworldly (…)

  • New date >>
    Where physical and digital infrastructure meet amphibians and other beings in Neder-Over-Heembeek
    In short:
    On January the 10th, 2026 we will be using cycling and walking as a research method to explore two areas in the north of Brussels, where human development and the natural (…)

  • January 2026

  • New date >>
    Where physical and digital infrastructure meet amphibians and other beings in Neder-Over-Heembeek
    In short:
    On January the 10th, 2026 we will be using cycling and walking as a research method to explore two areas in the north of Brussels, where human development and the natural (…)

  • *The workshop is fully booked*
    Hormonobotanik is a project focusing on medicinal plants, their phytohormonal properties and their uses in transition processes, initiated by Flo*Souad Benaddi in 2019. This long-term artistic research, initially begun out of necessity, has taken the form of (…)

  • *The workshop is fully booked*
    Hormonobotanik is a project focusing on medicinal plants, their phytohormonal properties and their uses in transition processes, initiated by Flo*Souad Benaddi in 2019. This long-term artistic research, initially begun out of necessity, has taken the form of (…)

  • Hormonobotanik is a project focusing on medicinal plants, their phytohormonal properties and their uses in transition processes, initiated by Flo*Souad Benaddi in 2019 then joined by Leo Ren O’faigain and Doriane Timmermans. This long-term artistic research, initially begun out of necessity, has (…)

  • Launch event: Thursday 27-11-2025 18:00 → 21:00
    Hormonobotanik is a project focusing on medicinal plants, their phytohormonal properties and their uses in transition processes, initiated by Flo*Souad Benaddi in 2019. This long-term artistic research, initially begun out of necessity, has (…)