In the framework of Saison Numérique the Maison du Livre opens its space for Algolit during three days in a row. The group presents lectures, workshops and a small exhibition about the narrative (…)

Interview with An Mertens on TV Brussel, 22 October 2012, News 18u

In Schaarbeek you can hear heritage, litterally. Throughout the many languages that are spoken in this part of Brussels, one finds traces of various migration waves that have changed the (…)

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, (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

On Saturday 12th May performer Delphine Auby returns to the heart of Schaerbeek to shout messages of the inhabitants at Cage aux Ours/Berenkuil. Ten days previously to the shout, she will deposit (…)

Constant member Peter Westenberg contributes with a lecture and a workshop to the event Dispositifs Post-, which is organised by Idensitat, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Recreant Cruïlles, Sala d’Art (…)

Interview with An Mertens on Radio 2 Vlaams-Brabant, 19 October 2012, 18h

An exchange about words that cross borders, words that install themselves in a new linguistic and geographic environment. This dialogue table is organised by the Dutch speaking Library of (…)

Arab, Turkish, Berber, Dutch, Brussels, Swahili, Polish"¦ these are only few of the languages that colour the shared French language in the area around La Cage aux Ours/Place Verboeckhoven. The (…)

Constant members Peter Westenberg and An Mertens were invited to discuss La Langue Schaerbeekoise/De Schaarbeekse Taal, the language of ’Escarbeque’ in the Spanish speaking community of Brussels, (…)

Algolit, the workgroup around FLOSS literature and code, organises a meeting on term frequency–inverse document frequency (tf-idf), a numerical statistic that reflects how important a word is to (…)

Constant member An will give a lecture on the project La Langue Schaerbeekoise/De Schaarbeekse Taal for the students of the Master in Social Work/Cultural Studies, at UGent.

Screening & discussion on honey & bees in the area, in presence of the filmmaker and previous occupant of the shop, Christina Stadlbauer. HONEYSHOP Between September and October 2010, 7 (…)

Algolit is a project of Constant, a workgroup around i-literature, free code and text. On Thursday 9th June 2016 (10-18h) we will meet to review the interventions of past sessions, invent some (…)

Interview avec An Mertens dans Jardin Public sur Radio Panik, 18-19h, le 18 octobre 2012

Interview avec Clémentine Delahaut sur le Journal Parlé de Télé-Bruxelles, 22 octobre 2012

Interview avec An Mertens sur Vivacité, Journal Parlé 7h45, le 19 octobre 2012

Interview avec An Mertens dans la Capitale, 23 octobre 2012

Interview avec Clémentine Delahaut sur la publication ’Mots de la Cage aux Ours’ dans la Dernière Heure, 22 octobre 2012

Algolit is a project of Constant, a workgroup around i-litterature, free code and text. On Saturday 23rd April 2016 (10-18h) Yann Chevaleyre will give an introduction to machine learning models (…)

The city counts less trees than humans. Maybe that is the reason why inhabitants cultivate such strong relationships with the trees that are there. During this walk storyteller and nature guide An (…)

The city counts less trees than humans. Maybe that is the reason why inhabitants cultivate such strong relationships with the trees that are there. During this walk storyteller and nature guide An (…)

Reportage leaving Schaarbeek to go to the booklaunch in Passaporta, Brussel Deze Week, 24 October 2012

Portrait of Cage aux Ours, Knack, 24 October 2012.

Radio Bosnia is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On the menu: hybrid words of the month and a conversation with special guest Anna (…)

A visit, a conversation and a multi-cultural bread tasting activity. The vocabulary discovered during this event will be recorded and added to the Schaarbeekse Taal Dictionary. If you want to (…)

An Mertens and Peter Westenberg contribute to a symposium in Montevideo, Amsterdam, initiated by Linda Hilfling, on the topic of performative language, as part of the ’Speaking out (…)

Algolit, the workgroup around FLOSS literature and code, will organise a meeting on word embeddings. A few Algolit members will present physical scores that we try to play out, in order to fully (…)

Integrated design conference + gathering words for our lexicon

Radio Bosnia is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On the menu this time: hybrid word of the month and a portrait of the free market at (…)

Radio Bosnia is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On the menu: hybrid words of the month and a portrait of a person or a place in the (…)

Radio Bosnia is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On Thursday 11:00 on Radio Alma 101.9FM (Bxl) and on stream: www.radioalma.be (…)

Radio Bosnia is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On Thursday 11:00 on Radio Alma 101.9FM (Bxl) and on stream: www.radioalma.be (…)

Radio Bosnie is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On the menu: hybrid word of the month, portraits of extra-ordinairy people and (…)

Radio Bosnie is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On the menu: hybrid word of the month, portraits of extra-ordinairy people and (…)

Radio broadcast in French with material from the performance by Delphine Auby at Cage aux Ours on Saturday 12th May, in the framework of the project of La Langue Schaerbeekoise/De Schaarbeekse (…)

Radio broadcast with words & sounds related to Arab languages that were recorded during the encounters of Schaarbeekse Taal/La Langue Schaerbeekoise. In collaboration with Najet Boulafdal, (…)

Radio broadcast with words & sounds related to the languages spoken in Kameroun, a savoury visit in company of Béatrice of the ’Manko’o shop’, rue Gallaitstraat. Recorded and composed by (…)

Radio broadcast with words & sounds related to the cross meeting between the sculptor of the mannequin factory Sommarti near la Cage aux Ours and the Brussels artist Antonin de Bemels aka le (…)

Radio broadcast with words & sounds related to the solidarity march at Place Colignon, organised in the framework of the International Woman’s Day on 8th March 2011. Treated words: femme, (…)

The first radioshow of Radio La Cage/Radio Berenkuil will be broadcasted by Radio Panik 105.4fm on 13-5 from 7pm till 7.30pm. This show is the result of a collaboration between Feza asbl and (…)

Radio broadcast on the sound dictionary discussing a collection of words from African origin.

Meeting, discussion & walk for women about (in)security in the public space around La Cage aux Ours/Verboeckhovenplein. In collaboration with Garance.

Algolit is a project of Constant, a workgroup around i-littérature, free code and text. On Saturday 19th March Olivier Perriquet will demonstrate how to address cognitive exhaustion and detect (…)

’A Sentiment Thermometer’ is one of the installations in the exhibition of Algoliterary Encounters. It will be the starting point for the workshop. It asks questions to commonly used language (…)

In the framework of Algoliterary Encounters Nicolas Malevé proposes a workshop on computer vision. Language, words, writing, descriptions and formulations are intimately linked to the way the (…)

Report booklaunch Passaporta, Het Nieuwsblad, 22 October 2012

In this workshop we write loveletters using the material from the archive developed for the installation: the weekly video addresses by Barack Obama, cut to precise clips of words and small (…)

A letterbox. A megaphone. Words of citizens. Those are the ingredients of the performance The Wild Cry that writer / town crier Delphine Auby has carried out in the framework of the project La (…)

Constant member Peter Westenberg and collaegue Clémentine Delahaut are invited to give a lecture about the project of La Langue Schaerbeekoise/De Schaarbeekse Taal for the students Master in the (…)

Constant members Peter Westenberg and An Mertens are invited to give a lecture about the project of La Langue Schaerbeekoise/De Schaarbeekse Taal for the students Master in the Social Work of the (…)