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ATNOFS - A Transversal Network of Feminist Servers

A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers (ATNOFS) was a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers. Understanding servers as computers that host space and (...)

Active Archives

Research and development of free software archive tools in collaboration with cultural institutions.

Ageing companions

Ageing Companions was a worksession that explored the interconnected ageing of bodies and technologies.

Alchorisma

Alchorisma was a worksession that took place from 2 till 8 December 2018 at Z33, House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt, Belgium. Alchorisma alluded to the relationships between algorithms, (...)

Algolit

Algolit is a project of Constant, a workgroup around i-literature, free code and texts. The group was initiated in 2012 by Catherine Lenoble and An Mertens. Since then, the algoliterarian (...)

Authors of the future

Conventional intellectual property law binds authors and their hybrid contemporary practices in a framework of assumed ownership and individualism. It conceives creations as original works, (...)

Back to the future

Projects, experiments and websites from 2003 and before.

Books with an Attitude

Books with an Attitude are published by Constant, designed with Free and Open Source software and published under open content licenses. This is why they deserve the hallmark ’Book with an (...)

Bureaucracksy

The worksession Bureaucracksy brought together artivist practices around the imaginative re-appropriations of rules and regulations. We were looking for critical attitudes, artistic positions, (...)

Capacitor

A weblog about DIY and open source hardware.

Champagne

Nurse reports on sights and sounds

Champagne

Nurse reports on sights and sounds

Collective Conditions

Collective Conditions was a worksession on the conditions for/of collectivity and collaboration that took place from 8 until 16 November 2019 in Ateliers Mommen in Brussels. It was organised in (...)

Constant Verlag

Constant Verlag is a repository of texts from the depth of the Constant Archives. Some of those texts were already available on line, others just saved on one of our harddrives; some written in (...)

Constant in MARCH journal

MARCH invited Constant to publish a series of 6 articles from January 2022 till June 2022 in the context of the journal’s first long term inquiry Publishing As Protocol, which aims to explore (...)

Copy.cult

Copy.cult provided news and pointers towards various aspects of the culture of the copy.

Cqrrelations

Cqrrelations was a work session lasting from 12 till 23 January 2015 in deBuren, inviting data travellers, writers, numbergeeks, programmers, artists, mathematicians, storytellers, and other (...)

Cuisine Interne Keuken

Research and audio database on how cultural workers make a living Answering 17 questions around the ingredients and recipes of cultural work, many artists, organizers, cultural workers were (...)

Cuisine Interne Keuken

Research and audio database on how cultural workers make a living Answering 17 questions around the ingredients and recipes of cultural work, many artists, organizers, cultural workers were (...)

Cyberfeminism

Hybrid and nomadic events, publications, thoughts in between working, training, academic and cultural places, practices and words.

De Taalpolitie

Un groupe de jeunes Néerlandais mènaient une enquête sur le mot « allochtone » dans une vidéo mise en ligne sur ce « vlog ». De Taalpolitie (la Police de la langue) est un projet développé par (...)

De Taalpolitie

A group of Dutch youngsters investigated the word ’allochthonous’ in video’s uploaded in this vlog. De Taalpolitie (The Language Police) is a project by Constant member Peter Westenberg (...)

Deja vu

A blog in which photographer Laurent Thurin Nal published his early photographic works ranging from lively portraits and moving cityscapes to work for theater companies and film productions. To (...)

DiVersions

DiVersions took place from 4 to 11 December 2016 and was inspired by the way versions are inscribed in daily software-practice. With 35 participants we explored how parallel to their (...)

Digitales

The impact of technology transforms our daily lives, our relationship with our work, with communications and even with maternity. The economic, social and cultural issue of "mastering the new (...)

Down Dwars Delà

2021 SUMMER STUDY SESSIONS Week 1: Eben-Ezer Tower, Belgium 12-17 JULY 2021 Week 2: Bidston Observatory, UK 2-7 AUGUST 2021 Down Dwars Delà is a trio of words from English, Dutch and (...)

Ellentriek

Ellentriek était un projet de recherche et de création sur la relation entre art et électricité, en collaboration avec De Pianofabriek et Ladda.

Ellentriek

This was a collaboration between Pianofabriek, Ladda and Constant. A series of workshops investigating the relationship between art and electricity.

From Denmark

From november 23th to november 25th 2005, a workshop on Discourse Analysis was held by James Gee at the Centre for Discourse Studies in Aalborg (Denmark). Since a lot of the questions that will (...)

GenderArtNet

GenderArtNet is an experimental mapping project exploring the interrelation of gender, ethnicity, race, class and sexualities in contemporary Europe. GenderArtNet’s primary aim is to (...)

GenderBlending

GenderBlending was a work session lasting from 11 till 22 November 2014 in Beursschouwburg, inviting body hackers, 3D theorists, game activists, queer designers and software feminists to (...)

Hupomnemata

Weblog par Pierre de Jaeger contenant des articles sur les bandes dessinées, des généalogies, des illustrations, de la science-fiction et des sons.

Hupomnemata

Weblog by Pierre de Jaeger featuring articles on comics books, généalogies, illustration, science/fiction and sounds.

IPatchwork / E-report

Workshop series for girls on technology. For a long time girls and women could express themselves exclusively through domestic work, weaving, stitching, embroidery etc. ... Fortunately, those (...)

Interfacing the law

A research project developed in collaboration with the experimental publishing program at Piet Zwart Institute of Media Design in Rotterdam.

Iterations

Iterations is committed to the future of artistic collaboration in digitally networked contexts. Multidisciplinary artists and practitioners are brought together to create speculative works that (...)

Karaoke

People hear rhythms, tones, accents, voice volume, incorrect pronunciations, a laugh, a cough, background sounds. But the machine does not make any difference. She just orders words and sound (...)

La Langue Schaerbeekoise / De Schaarbeekse Taal

La Langue Schaerbeekoise récoltait à travers des rencontres autour de la Cage aux Ours les mots utilisés par les différents groupes de population du quartier.

La Langue Schaerbeekoise / De Schaarbeekse Taal

La Langue Schaerbeekoise gathered words and terms spoken by the many different people living in the Cage aux Ours neighborhood of Schaerbeek.

LabtoLab

LABtoLAB was a network of media labs set up by 4 European organizations that are active in the field of new media: Constant, Kitchen Budapest (HU), Medialab-Prado, Madrid (ES), PiNG, Nantes (FR) (...)

Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM)

The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual international convention for the discussion of free and open source software used with graphics. Held since 2006 it is organised yearly by a (...)

Libre Graphics Research Unit

The Libre Graphics Research Unit was a traveling lab where new ideas for creative tools are developed. Its diverse activities range from the practical to the theoretical via writing, research (...)

Linux Audio

Linux Audio was a series of meetings between radio- and audiomakers who atre interested in working with open source software for audio. Which free audioprogrammes are available for Linux (...)

Mondothèque

Mondotheque is a platform for experiments with the legacy of the universalist and documentalist Paul Otlet such as drawings, images, systems, ideas.

Monstre

Monstre was a weblog in which cameraman Sebastian Koepel collected experimental pictures, prints, tests and stills.

Networks with an Attitude

Networks with an Attitude was a worksession to think of the future of Internet, organised by Constant from 7 to 13 April 2019 at various locations in Antwerp.

No Flash

For too long, net art has been associated with proprietary formats and traditional classifications. NoFlash is an effort to propagate the use of free software among artists, elaborate processes (...)

Objects in Common

Objects in common was a series of different activities that ran from October 2015 to March 2016, related to current challenges of material culture in the digital age and developed in (...)

Open Sound Lab

From 2012 to 2014 Jonathan & Yves Poliart animated a project called Open Sound Lab, a series of sound workshops devoted to the teenagers with no software or music practice. The workshops (...)

Open Source Publishing

Open Source Publishing was a graphic design research work-group that used only Free Software tools. Now it has grown into an independent project from Constant.

Open source video

Open Source Video is a collective laboratory for the production and distribution of open source based video. Every 6 weeks there is a meeting where experiences of montage, coding and web based (...)

Open source video

Open Source Video est un laboratoire collectif pour la production et la distribution video par des logiciels open source. Toutes les 6 semaines une assemblée se réunit pour échanger sur des (...)

OpenCoil

In recent years the pavements of many cities around the world have been flooded by so-called "dockless sharing vehicles". With promises of eco-friendly mobility, venture capitalist companies (...)

Parlez-vous Saint-Gillois ?

Parlez-vous Saint-Gillois? / Spreekt U Sint-Gillis? is an audio database composed of particular words hear in the neighbourhood Bosnie in Saint-Gilles, Brussels.

Promiscuous pipelines

Promiscuous Pipelines was a worksession about modularity in software processes that took place from 31 August to 5 September 2015 in FoAM in Brussels.

Public Domain Day

A series of activities that celebrated yearly the importance of the Public Domain.

Radia

This piece of equiment has been discontinued. From now on we shall no longer provide updates or new features on this equipment model. please update your connections to the new and improved (...)

Reclaiming Digital Infrastructures

The publication of this project is here: https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/RDI What we learn and how we learn are closely related. Now that digital learning seems to have become a new (...)

Routes + Routines

Routes + Routines was a series of city walks and surprise visits to unexpected corners of Brussels. The project tested out various methods for diverting and changing routines, and as a result (...)

Samedies

The workgroup "Samedies: Women & free software" brought together a diverse group of women to learn about building, maintaining or simply understanding a server.

Samedies

Le groupe de travail "Samedies: Femmes et Logiciels Libres" réunissait des femmes très différentes qui ont en commun le désir d’apprendre à construire un serveur, de le maintenir ou simplement (...)

Situated

A blog focussing on the "situatedness" of cultural and academic literacy. This weblog is the convergence of two blogs I have been working on in the past. As a member of constant I started the (...)

Spectral Desire Paths

Spectral Desire Paths was a project that aim to expand the imagination and imaginative capacity of possible futures to open up new (spectral) pathways, build anti-stereotypical models and (...)

Splinterfields

Splinter Fields was 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 (...)

Splinter Fields

Splinter Fields etait une initiative d’organisations bruxelloises, actives dans le domaine des arts numériques et des médias (Constant, FoAM, nadine et OKNO). Splinter Fields visait à favoriser (...)

Stitch And Split

Stitch and Split explorait l’articulation et les interstices entre ces deux registres qui peuvent être considérés comme opposés, la science et la fiction, et leur contamination réciproque. La (...)

Stitch And Split

Stitch and Split explored the joint, the interstices, between these two registers which might be considered opposed, science and fiction, and their reciprocal contamination. Science fiction as a (...)

Stranding

About stranding Stranding brings together ideas and work around archives, hospitality and feminism. This project began in 2003 as an online workspace by Valerie Swain, (...)

Techno Cul-de-Sac

This worksession investigated the city as a woven fabric of territories of inclusion and exclusion, of availabilities and scarcities, of obligations and potentials. It started from observing the (...)

Techno-disobedience

During 2023 Constant’s research focuses on artistic-activist resistances against technological dominations, from state control regimes as well as from GAFAM corporations, through a series of (...)