March 2024 - February 2025

  • December 2023

  • Splinter is a small server that travels and allows local and remote access to a set of documentation tools that Constant uses in different contexts. To achieve this modular way of working we connected splinter to circulations, which is a server hosted within the constant Galaxy of virtual (...)

  • February

  • Declarations is an ongoing artistic research into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard. Declarations is a love letter to the crafts of designing with language.
    Declarations is looking for web-artisans and declarative artists.
    The project is initiated by Doriane Timmermans. The (...)

  • Opening: Thursday 22 February 2024 from 18:00 on
    To start this year, Constant celebrates the publication of the manual How to Cypher Sex: A Manual for Collective Digital Self-Defense Guides. Constant supported the collective Cypher Sex in the making of this "how to" manual that will lay out (...)

  • March

  • Constant took part in the writing of a bugreport on Frontier Climate on the initiative of TITiPI.
    This bugreport is a collective action against Frontier Climate. Frontier Climate is a consortium of Big Tech companies which was established to manage advanced market commitments (AMC) for (...)

  • On Monday 11 March 2024, we invite you to discover the Digital Code, a self-proclaimed code of law written and staged by the Comité humain du numérique.
    The Comité humain du numérique is a group of citizens campaigning for a digital world that adapts to people and not the other way round. (...)

  • This year’s theme focuses on the critical topic of accessibility and its many intersections in the physical and virtual spaces. For the first worksession, Constant will be gathering with two of its partner organisations, Kaaitheater and Dr. Guislain Museum, to examine the different crossings (...)

  • This workshop consists of speculating and creating prototypes for on and off buttons, customized for your body. What kind of button would your brain, neurodiverse or otherwise, like to have made? What gesture does your hand/other body part want to do to activate something (technologically)? (...)

  • April

  • Opening: Friday 12-04-2024 18:00 -> 00:00
    This installation participates at the open doors weekends of Parcours d’Artistes Saint-Gilles 2024
    Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project that looks into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-language. The project is initiated by (...)

  • Opening: Friday 12-04-2024 18:00 -> 00:00
    This installation participates at the open doors weekends of Parcours d’Artistes Saint-Gilles 2024
    Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project that looks into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-language. The project is initiated by (...)

  • Opening: Friday 12-04-2024 18:00 -> 00:00
    This installation participates at the open doors weekends of Parcours d’Artistes Saint-Gilles 2024
    Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project that looks into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-language. The project is initiated by (...)

  • In the framework of this year theme, A cane, sticky notes, another body, Constant is pleased to support artist and machine learning engineer, Ahnjili ZhuParris.
    As part of her research supported by Constant’s commission, Ahnjili animates a workshop during the Oscillation festival organised (...)

  • May

  • Visit our studio during the Open Studio Days!
    Revisit Reuse (developed by Femke Snelting and Eva Weinmayr, designed with Flo*Souad Benaddis) is a space full of questions and provocations about Free Culture and Open Access. How to deal with cultural appropriation, power differentials and the (...)

  • Our colleague Michael Murtaugh participates at the Libre Graphics Meeting that takes place in Rennes, France, from 9 to 11 May 2024.
    As a teacher of a media design course in an art school (Experimental Publishing, or XPUB in Rotterdam), he teaches and uses with students a mix of free (...)

  • Since 1999, in the majority of Flemish municipalities and throughout the Brussels-Capital Region, voters have had to use a voting computer in the polling booth. Despite the cost, the lack of transparency, the bugs and incidents at each election... you will vote twice in 2024 with this system. (...)

  • We are delighted to invite you to the book launch of specXcraft’s collective publication (EN/FR): Speculative crafting for un/common futures in Brussels | Fabriquer collectivement d’im/possibles futurs pour Bruxelles
    This is a polyphonic account in words and images of the work that four (...)

  • June

  • This workshop consists of further speculating and creating more prototypes for on and off buttons, customized for your body and connecting them to electronic devices. What kind of button would your brain, neurodiverse or otherwise, like to have made? What gesture does your hand/other body part (...)

  • Come and discover Nubo, get help setting up your smartphone, laptop or tablet and think about digital sustainability!
    Nubo is a Belgian cooperative offering online services that respect your privacy. Nubo’s services are open to everyone, whatever you want to use them for. Nubo is a mailbox (...)

  • A clandestine cinema in the middle of an empty terrain, the mobile radio system in a demonstration, a market stand to digitise and exchange books, or a soundsystem in the middle of a pedestrian area... Many of the activities that take place to re-appropriate the city and to deviate public (...)

  • The Website fabulations encounter explores website modifications as a way of taking agency on already designed websites. Inspired by the notion of ’tactical design’ (cf Nolwenn Maudet), we remix the web as a user-hacker, questioning our agency as individuals and collectivities on the web. (...)

  • On the last weekend of June, the students of the final year of the Experimental Publishing masters of the Piet Zwart Institute will set up their graduation show at Slash Gallery in Rotterdam.
    In parallel to the graduation show, the first year XPUBbers will guide visitors into a counter-tour (...)