The great wish for the closing event of this conference was a showcase of the Kaleidoscope project. Unfortunately the infrastructure of the university makes it very difficult to set this up. (…)

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 (…)

Bodies are locations of political, cultural, scientific and technological negociations. They are objects of science and knowledge, they are flexible and vulnerable, but they are also sites of (…)

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 (…)

Deadline: 12 September DiVersions is inspired by the way versions are inscribed in daily software-practice, and explores how parallel to their conventional narrative of collaboration and (…)

GenderBlending is a six day worksession taking place from 17-22 November in Beursschouwburg, Brussels. GenderBlending calls body hackers, 3D theorists, game activists, queer designers, and (…)

The collective of ! Co LAPse KoDe will present their latest creation at the Festival for contemporary creation Le Souffle de l’Equinoxe in Poitiers, France. The festival presents 50 creations (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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

What would be a space that welcomes use and abuse, one that thrives on appropriation? How to make time and place for research, with life in the middle? What kind of interfaces could support (…)

The best part of May, Femke will be in residence at Medialab Prado (Madrid) to work on projects, presentations and texts in the context of the Libre Graphics Research Unit. She will report on her (…)

The project Expeditions to the Void, Science, Territory and subjective narratives, investigates the potential of subjective narratives created by a series of women artists who analyse, narrate and (…)

As part of this year’s Pink Screens Festival, Canadian editor, designer and researcher ginger coons explores in this workshop how we parse gender and gender representation when others are divorced (…)

This workshop explores how we parse gender and gender representation when others are divorced from our bodies. The two hour workshop is structured around a kind of Turing test, in this case called (…)

Constant member An Mertens is invited by architect Miriam Rohde and performer Adva Zakai @ Dominokingdom to talk about collaborative narrative practices within Constant during a workshop on ’Real (…)

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 (…)

Peter Westenberg is invited in the basement of La Quadrature du Net in Paris, where he is asked to SYMBOLICALLY scan his book of St Exupéry’s Petit Prince using their Open and DIY Bookscanner. (…)

In 2014, after a public outcry against the perceived lack of diversity in emoji characters available on smartphones, the Unicode Consortium added five "Skin tone modifiers" to the set and (…)

A weblog about producing, editing, archiving, sharing and distributing open source video.

Object Score Notation is the software that co-performed in Kaleidoscope during VJ12, Nov 2010.

Medialab-Prado and The Libre Graphics Research Unit are seeking for projects to be collaboratively developed during a two-weeks workshop to be held in Madrid, 15-27 April, 2013. We are interested (…)

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.

An will present the work of !Co LAPse KoDe in 20 slides and 400 seconds. Please register beforehand if you would like to assist.

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 (…)

Possible Bodies interrogates corpo-realities and their orientation through parametric interfaces and looks at anatomies that are computationally constrained by the requirements of mesh-modeling. (…)

Possible bodies is the workingtitle for a collaborative work on ways 3D-software conditions imaginations of gender. Looking at the practice of 3D-modelling, scanning and printing, we are (…)

This summer, the Possible Bodies inventory travels to Hangar (Barcelona) to mutate with local affinity networks and communities of concern. During a two-week residency, the collective research (…)

The Marginalia project developed by Aimar Arriola articulates a proposal of critical reactivation of the Pepe Espaliú Library: http://www.eremuak.net/0303marginalia. Various collectives are (…)

In computation, a ’pipe’ is a method that enables various software modules to connect to each other, where the output of one program is treated as the input for the next program. At the (…)

A collection of games, video works, documents, objects and images that was compiled as a reference library for the GenderBlending worksession. Featuring the Diversity Kickertable, a modded kicker (…)

The Piksel & Lines research seminar is the third international meeting in the context of LGRU. This edition is organised by Piksel and will have a particular focus on improvements, (…)

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 (…)

Did it ever occur to you to wave at a surveillance camera? Or rather, at the person who is watching you at that moment in the control room? And how would it feel if that person would wave back and (…)

The last of the Routes + Routines walks in Hasselt will stumble across protocols of exchange, (il)legal procedures of accessing the web, personal trust and temporary alliances. Registration: (…)

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

Festive closure of the second Samedi season with performances, presentations and talks.

A discussion introduced by software cases like Pattern for Python, Faircoin Wallet, MakeHuman, The Unicode Standards. With: Kym Ward, Aymeric Mansoux, Jara Rocha, Roel Roscam Abbing, Femke (…)

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. (…)

Kissing Protocol at the Domestic Science Workshop Recyclart Domestic Science Workshop is a temporary open craft studio at Recyclart where ’Recipes For Disaster’ are developed, tested and sold to (…)

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 (…)

At the yearly Sophia colloquiem, Unruly Bodies. Gender \ Normen \ Verzet, Adva Zakai, Xavier Gorgol and Femke Snelting will present The MakeHuman Bugreport. MakeHuman is a popular open source 3D (…)

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. (…)

Gender Blending gathers body hackers, 3D theorists, game activists, queer designers and software feminists around the table to challenge typical digital representations of the body, bending the (…)