Presentation of a research and possible development of free software in collaboration with cultural institutes (software-modules, presentations, exchange moments).
December 2007 - November 2008
- December
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Project presentation Active Archives
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Ellentriek #3
Workshops on D.I.Y. hardware & electricity
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Quedense dentro, cierren las ventanas
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.
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Le Quotidien sous contrôle
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.
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En avoir ou pas. Un cheminement dans les méandres du code légal et informatique
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Wanneer je over de toekomst spreekt...
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Towards
A newspaper on subjective carthographies of urban interventions in Brussels, in collaboration with Citymin(e)d, Recyclart and Speculoos.
- January 2008
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Linux Audio #6
A collaboration between Bxlug, Radio Panik, Radio Campus,
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Urban Act
publication
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Samedies #11: Last make-up Amaya
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
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Advanced Performance training
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 (…) -
AFTERNOON TOPOGRAPHY SESSIONS IV – NEW (MEDIA) TOPOGRAPHY
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
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Samedies #12: launch Amaya
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 (…) -
Routes + Routines @ PLACE@SPACE
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.
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CIAO/CU @ PLACE@SPACE
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 (…) -
Copyleft::Free Software
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 (…) -
Regreso al Futuro
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
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Active Archives
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.
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CIAO/CU 2nd
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 (…) -
Mapping the Connections
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
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Open Course
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,
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RE | BOOT
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.
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Routes + Routines Z33
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 (…) -
Hybrid -> city
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 (…) -
Samedies #13: Re-play
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 (…) -
V/J 11.2 Mapping me / mapping you
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 (…)
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error #9: SHADOW CABINET
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
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Broadcast Laurence Rassel Show
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 (…) - May
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Cuisine Interne Keuken demo
A mini demo of ’My Cuisine Interne Keuken’ by Wendy Van Wynsberghe,
followed by interviews on the first floor of The Laboureur, done with a
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Space cowboys
Constant member Peter Westenberg participates in this two day workshop
that aims to enable sharing and mapping of experiences, thoughts and
visions around creative expressions of hybrid space. How do artists work
with hybrid space and how do they make us aware of the social and cultural (…) -
Libre Graphics Meeting
OSP (Open Source Publishing) travels to Wroclaw, Poland to participate in
the Libre Graphics Meeting Days 2008. With amongst others: a Print Party,
a workshop and a presentation.
Audio & screencast
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Ellentriek #4
In this workshop you can propose your electrical artistic research
project. Participate to experiment and learn from each other and from
Jonas Nachtergaele, MarcOrakel, Dijf Sanders...
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Feminism is on the agenda
Nicolas Malevé and Femke Snelting participate in this one day workshop
that looks into how practices motivated by personal questions in relation
to gender can be responsive to specific spatial and gendered conditions without appealing to the general? Further, on what level might such practices (…) -
Routes + Routines - performative walk
The last of the Routes + Routines walks in Hasselt will stumble across
protocols of exchange, (il)legal procedures of accessing the web, personal
trust and temporary alliances.
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Working with webstandards
Presentation Femke Snelting in the context of The Spiderwoman meeting
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Who’s afraid of Artistic Research
One-day symposium about the epistemology and context of practice-based
research
Speakers: Laurence Rassel, artist/ curator (Brussels), Prof Nigel Johnson,
artist/ researcher (Dundee University), Simon Sheikh, curator/ critic
(Copenhagen/Malmoe), Dr Dieter Lesage, philosopher (…) -
CIK on stage
Wendy Van Wynsberghe introduces My Cuisine Interne Keuken, an
interview database & tool on the conditions of work, on Sunday 25 may
during the Eclectic Tech Carnival, organized by the Genderchangers and
EYFA.
During the week that follows, bolwerK will follow up by conducting a
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Contemporary ways of art production & distribution
Laurence Rassel member of Constant gives a 4-days class on
Contemporary ways of production and distribution. - June
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Journées du libre
Constant members Femke Snelting and Wendy van Wynsberghe talk about how
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Bookpresentation CROSS-over. Kunst, Media en Technologie in Vlaanderen
The Open Source Publishing team designed CROSS-over, a publication on art, media and technology in Flanders. The publication is edited by Liesbeth Huybrechts and published by BAM and Lanoo. CROSS-over also contains a textual contribution by Constant member Femke Snelting, and an annotated visualisation of the BAM database by OSP.
"Contemporary artists work with the materials of their times: internet, gps, RFID and nanotechnologies. Together with programmers, designers and researchers they create new forms of expression, new relations with publics and new forms of conservation and presentation."
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The Laurence Rassel Show discussed
At the occasion of Terre Thaemlitz’ residency at the York University
Music Research Centre under the direction of Tony Myatt, The Laurence Rassel Show will be discussed and presented as well as some other Constant projects, in presence of Laurence Rassel, Dont Rhine (Ultrared-Publicrecord) and (…) -
Samedies #14
A worksession about security in Debian/Apache/MySQL/PHP.
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Presentation at Packed
Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe presents during this study-afternoon
that questions the role of intellectual property in the creation of
media-arts. Wat are the risks for musea buying arts in which found footage
is incorporated? What are alternative models for the disclosure of (…) -
Kunstenwerkplaats Reflection afternoon
Kunstenwerkplaatsen (Art labs) are a broad category of divers initiatives
difficult to capture under one umbrella. Fact is that they are all
research based, and center stage artistic development. With presentations
by: Bastien Gilbert, directeur van het RCAAQ (Québec, Canada), Piet Menu, (…) -
Polish Print Party
Join us for live-lay-out, Polish souvenirs and the launch of NotCourier-sans: an open font by OSP.
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Samedie #15: Festive closure
Festive closure of the second Samedi season with performances,
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Manières de faire, manières de voir.
Dans le cadre du cours "Manières de faire, manières de voir" organisé par l’Ecole des Arts 08, une organisation du Circulo de Bellas Artes et l’Université Carlos III de Madrid, cours sous la direction de Nuria Enguita Mayo, directrice artistique de la Fondation Tapies, Barcelone, Laurence Rassel présentera le travail de Constant sous le titre: "Technologies expositives, spéculation technologique.", lors de la session du 30 juin.
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Ways of doing, ways of seeing
In the framework of the Summer course "Ways of doing, ways of seeing"
under the direction of Nuria Enguita Mayo, artistic director of the
Tapies Fundation, Laurence Rassel speaks about Constant work, in a lecture entitled "Exhibitive technology, technological speculation".
The course is part (…) - July
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Collaborative open video
How can the functionalities of online and ofline systems to edit video be reviewed to facilitate open source ways of collaborative video-editing. Invited by Deptford.tv guests will work on imagining a system, exploring the possibilities of content managing systems and the capacity of timeline editors to export edit decision lists in open standards formats.
- August
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VJ 11.4 Sci-fi-pic-nic in the park
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 (…)
- October
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Video Vortex Reader
Member of Constant Peter Westenberg contributed to the ’first research book about YouTube’ published by the Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur in Amsterdam.
The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video – from its (…) -
Spiderwomen
How can the women’s movement best make use of the vast possibilities of new technologies? What are choices to make and challenges to take on? Constant member Femke Snelting moderates a discussion organised by Amazone, national contact centre for women and women’s organisations in Brussels.
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Total Reboot Amaya
Amaya will resurrect in her proper DMZ and with a new domain name:
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Balearic Routes + Routines
Balearic Routes and Routines are two walks which try to interfere with the
experience you have moving about in your familiar environment. With low
tech shoes and other devices we will explore Palma and Andratx on foot,
looking at common and private space, sniffing wifi signals and recording (…) -
Balearic Routes + Routines
Balearic Routes and Routines are two walks which try to interfere with the
experience you have moving about in your familiar environment. With low
tech shoes and other devices we will explore Palma and Andratx on foot,
looking at common and private space, sniffing wifi signals and recording (…) -
Software history mapping night
In a first attempt to draw a collaborative map of the many different tools that together define the practice of digital design, OSP attempts to recollect facts and anecdotes gathered over the last few years. At Software history mapping night we’ll gather around the table to start a visual (…)
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Collaborative speculative fiction
Constant is operating within the walls of University Gent with a lecture and a workshop in 4 sessions.
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Busboîtescartesmaps
Busboîtescartesmaps is an event in the framework of the Towards project that combines subjective representations of the Brussels’ terrain which the development of a software for subjective cartography. Also inspired by the experiences springing from the Routes + Routines series of explorative (…)
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Semiotics of the kitchen radio
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 (…)
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Dividing and sharing
Dividing and Sharing is an essay about the way (web)standards change the practice of design work.
This text by Femke Snelting is included in Designing Universal Knowledge (Lars Müller Publishers), a publication edited by Gerlinde Schuller with essays by Alex Wright, Willem van Weelden and (…) -
Workshop OSV
A workshop Open Source Video exploring collaborative practices and tools.
Remixes, re-using imagery, recycling visuals and reworking the same source material is an exciting artistic field which gained momentum with the rise of the internet. Audio visual material that is free of author rights, (…) -
Open Sauces
Femke Snelting contributes to the grand FoAM Open Sauces dinner with a toast on redundancy-free cooking.
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Ellentriek #5
At the end of November, there is another Ellentriek session, this time in a slightly ’new’ format. Ellentriek this time is a gathering for Volt-artists-DIY-ers where the relationship between art en electricity is central! Research, experiment, creation, inspiration, cooperation, "¦
Join us at (…)