Projects - Constant

Ongoing projects

Techno-disobedience

The year 2023 focuses on artistic-activist resistances against technological dominations from state control regimes as well as from (...)

Constant_V

Constant_V is a series of small-scale installations in the window of the Constant office. These installations are sometimes accompanied (...)

Urban(e)(istiques) Anomalie(ë)n Bru(x)(ss)el(le)(s)

A visual journey through particularities of public spaces in Brussels.

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 (...)

Techno Cul-de-Sac

This worksession investigates the city as a woven fabric of territories of inclusion and exclusion, of availabilities and scarcities, (...)

Sponge

SpecXcraft

Speculative crafting for un/common futures, or Specxcraft for short, is a co-creative, artistic research project between 4 (...)

Constant in MARCH journal

MARCH invites Constant to publish a series of 6 articles from January till June 2022 in the context of the journal’s first long term (...)

Archived projects

Books with an Attitude

Books with an Attitude are published by Constant, designed with Free and Open Source software and published under open content (...)

Bureaucracksy

The worksession Bureaucracksy brought together artivist practices around the imaginative re-appropriations of rules and regulations. We (...)

Champagne

Nurse reports on sights and sounds

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 (...)

Capacitor

A weblog about DIY and open source hardware.

Splinterfields

Splinter Fields was an initiative of Brussels based organizations active within the fields of technological and media arts (Constant, (...)

Cuisine Interne Keuken

Research and audio database on how cultural workers make a living Answering 17 questions around the ingredients and recipes of (...)

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 (...)

Towards

Towards was a collection of subjective cartographic representations of Brussels connected to the creation of a collaborative tool for (...)

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 (...)

Ageing companions

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

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 (...)

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 (...)

Back to the future

Projects, experiments and websites from 2003 and before.

GenderBlending

GenderBlending was a work session lasting from 11 till 22 November 2014 in Beursschouwburg, inviting body hackers, 3D theorists, game (...)

Stranding

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

Situated

A blog focussing on the "situatedness" of cultural and academic literacy. This weblog is the convergence of two blogs I have been (...)

Copy.cult

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

IPatchwork / E-report

Workshop series for girls on technology. For a long time girls and women could express themselves exclusively through domestic work, (...)

Open Source Video

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

Transmarcations

Transmarcations was a worksession situated at the crossing of technologies with geographies, life’s courses, bodies, terrains and (...)

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 (...)

Karaoke

People hear rhythms, tones, accents, voice volume, incorrect pronunciations, a laugh, a cough, background sounds. But the machine does (...)

Hupomnemata

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

Radia

This piece of equiment has been discontinued. From now on we shall no longer provide updates or new features on this equipment model. (...)

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 (...)

OpenCoil

In recent years the pavements of many cities around the world have been flooded by so-called "dockless sharing vehicles". With promises (...)

WVW

In this blog, Wendy Van Wynsberghe investigated the potential of open source audio software.

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 (...)

Yoogle!

An online game about privacy.

Ellentriek

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

Constant Variable

Variable is the Free Libre Open Source Software Arts Lab that Constant ran between 2011 and 2014. Variable housed studios for artists, (...)

Active Archives

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

ATNOFS - A Transversal Network of Feminist Servers

A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers (ATNOFS) is a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers. (...)

Cyberfeminism

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

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 (...)

Routes + Routines

Routes + Routines was a series of city walks and surprise visits to unexpected corners of Brussels. The project tested out various (...)

Monstre

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

Alchorisma

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

Samedies

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

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 (...)

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 (...)

No Flash

For too long, net art has been associated with proprietary formats and traditional classifications. NoFlash is an effort to propagate (...)

Interfacing the law

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

Collective Conditions

Collective Conditions was a worksession on the conditions for/of collectivity and collaboration that took place from 8 until 16 (...)

Promiscuous pipelines

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

Verbindingen / Jonctions

Annual multidisciplinary festival that was organised by Constant between 2000 and 2013

Stitch And Split

Stitch and Split explored the joint, the interstices, between these two registers which might be considered opposed, science and (...)

Mondothèque

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

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 (...)

Cqrrelations

Cqrrelations was a work session lasting from 12 till 23 January 2015 in deBuren, inviting data travellers, writers, numbergeeks, (...)

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 (...)

Spectral Desire Paths

Spectral Desire Paths aims to expand the imagination and imaginative capacity of possible futures to open up new (spectral) pathways, (...)

Digitales

The impact of technology transforms our daily lives, our relationship with our work, with communications and even with maternity. The (...)

Authors of the future

Conventional intellectual property law binds authors and their hybrid contemporary practices in a framework of assumed ownership and (...)

GenderArtNet

GenderArtNet is an experimental mapping project exploring the interrelation of gender, ethnicity, race, class and sexualities in (...)

Linux Audio

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

The Technogalactic Software Observatory

The Techno-Galactic Software Observatory was a worksession that explored methods and practices around software that allow for forms of (...)

Algolit

Algolit is a project of Constant, a workgroup around i-literature, free code and texts. The group was initiated in 2012 by Catherine (...)

Deja vu

A blog in which photographer Laurent Thurin Nal published his early photographic works ranging from lively portraits and moving (...)

Iterations

Iterations is committed to the future of artistic collaboration in digitally networked contexts. Multidisciplinary artists and (...)

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 (...)

Public Domain Day

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

De Taalpolitie

A group of Dutch youngsters investigated the word ’allochthonous’ in video’s uploaded in this vlog. De Taalpolitie (The Language Police) (...)

Unbound Libraries

Unbound Libraries was a worksession around digital libraries and tools for organisation of knowledge that took place online from 31 May (...)