During 2024 Constant’s research focused on the problems of accessibility of physical and virtual spaces.Project description
A cane, sticky notes, another body
During 2024 Constant’s research focused on the problems of accessibility of physical and virtual spaces.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 (…)About
Constant is a non-profit organisation based in Brussels since 1997 and active in the fields of art, media and technology.
Active Archives
Research and development of free software archive tools in collaboration with cultural institutions.Adashboard (for fiction)
In a predigital area An Mertens would have been the type of author struggling with small cards in large drawers, trying to keep everything categorized alphabetically and with a 100 different (…)
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 space (…)And more...
Lectures, presentations and other activities
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, making (…)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 soundsCollective 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 (…)Constant_V
Constant_V is a series of small-scale installations in the window of the office of Constant that offers passers by insight in the world of F/LOSS arts.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 tech (…)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
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 conventional (…)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
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 be (…)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 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 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 different (…)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 users? (…)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.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 collaboration (…)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 (…)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 have (…)Otherwordly Communications
Otherworldly communications researches 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 (…)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 Radia (…)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 norm, (…)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 your (…)
Samedies
The workgroup "Samedies: Women & free software" brought together a diverse group of women to learn about building, maintaining or simply understanding a server.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 (…)
SpecXcraft
Speculative crafting for un/common futures is a co-creative, artistic research project between 4 Brussels-based organisations that tries to investigate how crafting and speculation can lead to (…)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 (…)Sponge
Sponge is an ecosystem of tools to index, link, and rewrite digital materials to tell (new) stories of more than two decades of activities of Constant.
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 focused on artistic-activist resistances against technological dominations, from state control regimes as well as from GAFAM corporations, through a series of (…)The Technogalactic Software Observatory
The Techno-Galactic Software Observatory was a worksession that explored methods and practices around software that allow for forms of critique without distance. It took place from 7 until 12 June (…)Towards
Towards was a collection of subjective cartographic representations of Brussels connected to the creation of a collaborative tool for subjective cartography.Transmarcations
Transmarcations was a worksession situated at the crossing of technologies with geographies, life’s courses, bodies, terrains and de-placements. I took place from 4 to 9 December 2017 in (…)Unbound Libraries
Unbound Libraries was a worksession around digital libraries and tools for organisation of knowledge that took place online from 31 May to 5 June 2020.Urban(e)(istiques) Anomalie(ë)n Bru(x)(ss)el(le)(s)
A visual journey through particularities of public spaces in Brussels.Verbindingen / Jonctions
Annual multidisciplinary festival that was organised by Constant between 2000 and 2013WVW
In this blog, Wendy Van Wynsberghe investigated the potential of open source audio software.Weak signaaal
In June 2022, Constant stirred up the format of our typical worksessions and organised a series of 4 afternoons under the title of Weak Signaaal at cafe La Vieille Chechette. Seeing the search for (…)Yoogle!
An online game about privacy.Zennestraat 17 rue de la Senne
Ischa Tallieu and Jan Verbruggen invited arts organisations to develop programs for this private building. Until the end of 2009 the building has housed a multitude of exhibitions, workspaces, (…)