May 2007 - April 2008

  • May

  • A lecture by Femke Snelting and Harrison during Libre Graphics Meeting, the annual meeting around free software for graphical work around the question: why designers should be interested in FLOSS.

  • June

  • A radio drama starring Laurence Rassel & Terre Thaemlitz.
    Originally commissioned for broadcast by a German national broadcaster in
    2005, delayed and then cancelled in 2006, self-released in 2007 by
    Comatonse Recordings (comatonse.com), Constant vzw (constantvzw.com), and
    simultaneously (…)

  • Gender Art Net will be developed throughout 2008 as an interactive Map,
    offering accessibility and readability of a broader range of artistic
    positions, which explore the complex interrelatedness of gender,
    ethnicity, race, sexualities in contemporary Europe. Seminar for Master
    and BA (…)

  • The Open Source Publishing team would like to serve you their latest adventures in free software for breakfast. With amongst other things a lay-out application animating a fairy tale, a software developer looking for monkeys in Madagascar and a letter A that changed everything. Don’t miss the (…)

  • July

  • Talk by constant member Laurence Rassel in the framework of the seminar
    "Structures, networks, collectives - A segment connector" co-ordinated by
    the Fundacion Rodriguez. The seminar focusses on the practice of
    collective works, networking, platforms of exchange in the field of
    contemporary (…)

  • September

  • Benjamin Henrion who joined the July cartography workshop talked about the openstreetmap project (1). We organize a first workshop on open cartography of the center of Brussels.
    We wander through the streets of the city center with our bike and GPS and we will process the data acquired in the (…)

  • Les Mouvements "Radieuse": urban gymnastics for the inhabitants of the Maison Radieuse.
    A series of ’Routes + Routines’ workshops on the relation between architecture, prescription, routine and the body. How does a building influence our daily movements? Are those movements part of the original (…)

  • Because French is the current language at the Samedies, the rest of this article will be in French.
    C’est la rentrée des Samedis, femmes et logiciels libres, une série de rencontres qui ont débuté en novembre 2006, organisées autour de la construction, l’installation et la maintenance d’un (…)

  • October

  • Member of Constant Peter Westenberg took part in the conference Video
    Vortex, responses to YouTube, organised by Argos and the Institute of
    Network Cultures. The raw text of his lecture ’Affinity video’ can be
    found on the Open Source Videoblog:
    http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/?p=97
    About (…)

  • Constant member Laurence Rassel participates to the forum discussion ’Art and Economy’ in the framework of the European Art Festival Hamburg. 22 art spaces based in Hamburg collectively reflect on new strategies and production methods in the European art scene. Other leading European art (…)

  • Constant member Peter Westenberg participates in the debate ’Aventures en
    architecture’, organised by IBAI, the Brussels Architecture Institute
    The debate investigates city tours as an artistic practice. With
    Brukselbinnenstebuiten, Isabel de Barry / Ne pas plier, Vincent Calay,
    Dirk (…)

  • Integrated design conference + gathering words for our lexicon
    PubliActie proposes a series of worksessions and interventions around words and definitions connected to moods, actions, sentiments we experience daily as a result from digital developments.
    PubliActie is a cooperation between (…)

  • November

  • Integrated design conference + gathering words for our lexicon
    PubliActie proposes a series of worksessions and interventions around words and definitions connected to moods, actions, sentiments we experience daily as a result from digital developments.
    PubliActie is a cooperation between (…)

  • Because the current language of the Samedies is French, the following message will be in French. Tx for your comprehension!
    Amaya (notre machine :-) dispose maintenant d’un serveur Web (Apache) et de bases de données (MySQL) entre autres. Utilisons-les pour mettre en ligne des applications Web (…)

  • Together with Mute’s Simon Worthington and Laura Oldenburg, OSP participates to the NM-X network evening. We present our experiences with free software for designers, and discuss problems and possibilities of mixed use of free and commercial software, the future of free fonts and the (…)

  • Workshop with open source tools only:
    – content that belongs to the Public Domain
    – fonts that allows us to change them and redistribute them
    – open source software
    Starting point is the Gutenberg Project, the first and largest collection of free electronic books.

  • December

  • Presentation of a research and possible development of free software in collaboration with cultural institutes (software-modules, presentations, exchange moments).

  • Workshops on D.I.Y. hardware & electricity

  • Lecture by Laurence Rassel, member of Constant, in the framework of a symposium reflecting on the consumer society via zombie movies. This symposium figures as the point of departure of a project by artists Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum in collaboration with Consonni.

  • Workshop in the framework of the week of the Human Rights liga, focussing on the project Yoogle! (project presentation + atelier). These activities envision elucidating the veiled economic mechanisms of web 2.0, as well as pointing to the misuse of profiles and free labour.

  • A newspaper on subjective carthographies of urban interventions in Brussels, in collaboration with Citymin(e)d, Recyclart and Speculoos.

  • January 2008

  • A collaboration between Bxlug, Radio Panik, Radio Campus,
    Radio Air Libre, collectifs.net and Constant, amongst others.

  • publication

  • The common language at the Samedies is French, therefore the rest of this message is in French.
    Amaya (notre machine :-) dispose maintenant d’un serveur Web (Apache), de bases de données (MySQL) et des applications comme PMwiki. Comment et où on l’installe finalement ? Comment on la connecte (…)

  • February

  • 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 is based at Singel in Antwerp).
    In the light of this programme, we are delighted to invite you to (…)

  • New media conceptualize space in terms of interhuman and concrete
    relationships. Their cartographic representation show how these different
    dimensions are linked to each other and tries to demonstrate their
    reciprocal connectedness. This Friday afternoon will present the work of
    media (…)

  • March

  • Common language at the Samedies is French, therefore this message is continued in French.
    Nous ne savons pas encore si Amaya sera notre plaine de jeux et de tests, un abri pour des projets publics ou encore un bureau à distance, ou bien tout à la fois :-) Mais elle est déjà un espace de (…)

  • Constant member Peter Westenberg created an installation in the art center Z33 and he’s organizing four walks through the center of Hasselt in the framework of the exhibition PLACE@SPACE.
    The walkers will wear footwear equipped with low tech electronics, microphones, camera’s. The collected (…)

  • CIAO/CU – Digital narration
    CIAO/TOT LATER — Novel
    * Work in Progress*
    Linda is a young photographer who dreams of making a living as a comic
    artist. She lives on a square in the center of Brussels. Her artistic work
    takes an important turn when the inhabitants discover the real estate (…)

  • Constant member Nicolas Malevé participates in a training on free software by Cesep.
    Are members of your team interested in - or already into free software? Come and find out how you can install free software in your organization with only a short sharp and free training.
    In one morning you (…)

  • Constant member Laurence Rassel presents her ideas on fiction as a tool in ’Bellas Necesidades’.
    The Encounters Back to the Future invite 5 thinkers/creators: Laurence Rassel, José Luis de Vicente, Wu Ming, Lisa Parks and Geert Lovink. They look into the possible functions of utopic thinking (…)

  • April

  • In collaboration with Arteleku, Constant organised a worksession dedicated to the exchange of video material and a introductory lecture with interventions by Jorge Blasco Gallardo and Michael Murtaugh.
    http://activearchives.org/wiki/Workshop_San_Sebasti%C3%A1n_2008

  • The digital narration *CIAU/CU* was awarded the 2nd place in the trails
    category of the ShiftSpace commission program and will be granted a
    development grant from Turbulence.org
    CIAO/CU is a work in progress and can still be see in the exhibition
    Place@Space in Z33 in Hasselt.
    CIAO/CU is (…)

  • Constant member Laurence Rassel will lecture in this conference which is
    presented by The American University Washington College of Law’s Journal
    of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, Program on Information Justice and
    Intellectual Property, and Women and the Law Program.

  • Presentation by Nicolas Malevé followed by a Print Party, a perfomative lecture with cakes and typographies by the members of the collective OpenSource Publishing. This activity is part of Open Source/ Open Course,
    a project initiated by Marc Wathieu.

  • Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe presents Constant’s work during the launch event of the New Media lab of Area 10. The media lab is dedicated to working with Free Libre / Open Source tools. RE | BOOT is part of a pan-London programme of new media events called Node London.
    More detailed (…)

  • In the framework of the exhibition Place@Space, Constant member Peter
    Westenberg organises walks through the center of Hasselt. Equiped with low tech audio visual shoes, the walkers explore boundaries between public and private space. The walks will be webcasted through private internet (…)

  • Constant member Femke Snelting lectures during the conference Hybrid
    City, a design research project investigating different layers of the
    city, organised by the Media & Design Academy Genk.
    Students of the MDA explored Genk’s mining history, food culture, multiculturalism, popular (…)

  • The common language in the Samedies is French, therefore the following message is in French:
    Deuxième expérience nomade : après un accueil à l’asbl Constant vzw, les Samedis se dérouleront aux Ateliers du Web de Saint-Gilles.
    Pour un re-play et une mise en oeuvre de la politique de droits (…)

  • 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. As of the 11th edition, the yearly Verbindingen/Jonctions festival mutates into a more punctual (…)

  • Terre Thaemlitz + Laurence Rassel’s already legendary ’Laurence Rassel
    Show’ is included in this groupshow that gathers documents, art works and
    films which offer a plural view on borderline practices, where singular
    political and artistic agendas are inextricably linked.

  • In the framework of the exhibition Shadow Cabinet (Three Rendezvous) in Extracity which is curated by Vincent Meessen, a special broadcast of ’The Laurence Rassel Show’ is scheduled on Radio Centraal, Antwerpen.
    The programme ’de Wolkenbreiers’ of Leo R., will contain interventions by Vincent (…)