February 2009 - January 2010

  • February

  • Archive.org, YouTube, Pirate Bay and other popular online platforms bring up questions about authorship, distribution and production. Rits, the Brussels’ school for audiovisual studies, invited Constant to discuss these issues and present Active Archives, a project which sets off from the idea (…)

  • Lecture in the framework of conference Academie voor Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving Minerva Groningen

  • Lecture in the framework of conference Academie voor Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving Minerva Groningen

  • "FLOSS+Art", edited by Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk, covers Free and Open Source software (FLOSS) for artists and designers not just as a technical tool, but as an artistic medium that works differently and has its own philosophy, politics and aesthetics.
    With presentations by: Aymeric (…)

  • Workgroups MySQL & TRAC
    Brainstorm on future interventions at IF3
    Brainstorming for the "toolkit" : how to react to sexist clichés
    Brainstorming on closing samedies in may/june

  • What is our current attitude towards the future and what effect does this have on contemporary performance and media art? This is the topic dealt with in Diggin’ the Future. This study day focuses on the impact of ongoing geopolitical shifts on the present depiction of the future. It also (…)

  • March

  • In the publishing business, the term ’parallel publishing’ is used to describe the production of the same content or information in more than one medium (typically paper and screen).
    The Open Source Publishing team will work with a group of students from the Ecole des beaux-arts, école (…)

  • Open workshop – bring your own project and let’s make it work … together.
    During this pre-spring weekend artistic diyers can:
    *Continue their electronic research (research)
    *Experiment and try out new stuff (experiment)
    *Get one step further thanks to new input and knowledge (…)

  • Towards new modes of documentary creation: between shared practices, normalisation and diversification.
    During the ’professional meetings’ organised in the framework of the Cinema du Reel documentary festival, Constant member Peter Westenberg hosts a panel about open source video production (…)

  • Ana Foor & Anne Wiel show children how you can turn a memory into a fiction story and how you stitch the story into a selfmade cover. Children make their own book with free software during workshops at the Bibliotheek Sans Souci or at home using an online toolkit (will be published soon!). (…)

  • During the Yota study day "Speaking through space" which takes place March 27, Constant organises in collaboration with BEAM, a walk through Molenbeek / Laken, just behind the Tour & Taxis site. During this walk we will trace a few routes&routines developed by local youth and kids. Where (…)

  • Host projects:
    wikis, spip, mediawiki, dokuwiki, wordpress and other.

  • In the context of Open course / Open source, OSP performs a re-enactment of a print party that happened almost a year ago at the same location. OSP will change roles to serve another assorted collection of stories about engineered fonts, a live cooking class (nothing prepared earlier), 9 new (…)

  • April

  • This toolkit is freely downloadable for all children (and those who still feel like children) who want to make their own book.
    In this toolkit you find:
    – tips to turn a memory into a fictional story
    – instructions on how to make the pages of a book:
    * manually
    * with a (…)

  • OSP free typography workshop using the streets of Brussels as a playground on multiple scales. Performances, treasure hunts and walks all feed into the design of a collaborative font.

  • Constant presents during the opening weekend of this temporarily shared space:
    Room 2 - Take Away Archive
    A retrospective of books, posters and flyers, published by Constant since 1997. A chance to update your printed matter collection with vintage Constant must-haves.
    Room 1 - Ellentrique (…)

  • Open workshop - bring your project involving electronics and let’s work on it together. If you have no specific project in mind, you can come, check it out and get some electric inspiration and a conversation .
    During this pre-spring weekend artistic DIYers can:
    *Continue their electronic (…)

  • Every Saturday and Sunday you’re welcome to pop in and visit our Take Away Archive, the exhibitions of the other organisations, the bar, the space...us.
    Rue de la Senne/Zennestraat 17:
    Constant, Josworld, Croxhapox, Komplot, Bains Connective, Fortlaan 17, SECONDroom and Q-O2 can reside (…)

  • – Repair MySQL
    – study manuals for backup

  • May

  • Cuisine Interne Keuken is the audio-project of Constant making visible the internal organisation of the cultural industry. By interviewing artists on their practises of dealing with written and unwritten laws, systems of values and processes of decision making, this database offers an insight (…)

  • In 2008 Amazone (the national contact centre for women and women’s organisations in Belgium), organised Spiderwomen?!: the women’s movement and the World Wide Web. During this study day, it became clear that indivdual women as well as women’s organisations are ready to work with new media tools. (…)

  • An Mertens will be participating in the 11th Festival Bandits-Mages, in the program ’Anticipated Worlds/Augmented Territories’.
    Fiction allows you to take a distance from everyday reality and to inject new perspectives in work practises. Which examples of so called feminist science-fiction (…)

  • At the occasion of the yearly festival ’Journées du Libre’, Constant invited art- and design professors to discuss the way Free, Libre and Open Source Software and Open Content licenses function in the courses they are currently teaching. Why do they think Free Culture relevant for art (…)

  • Gender Art Net is 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.
    This project commissioned by the European Cultural Foundation (…)

  • As a contribution to the Nova festival ’Imaginary Property’ (more info soon at: http://www.nova-cinema.org), OSP presents a selection of animated scripts, instructional videos, live-drawing-from-far, interviews, clips, digital slide shows, desktop recordings and other moving material for the (…)

  • The collective exhibition in Zennestraat 17 will close on Sunday 31st May to re-open in October 2009.
    *Closing party on 30-5-9 from 9pm
    *Concert by Kapotski on 31-5-9 from 2 till 6pm
    From May till October Constant will be organizing several workshops at Zennestraat 17.

  • June

  • The catalogue of the festival Zemos98 remixes the texts of the interventions of the different participants during ’Encuentros Regreso al futuro’. The book includes the presentation by Laurence Rassel, Conciencia Multiple, mixed with echos of other lectures.
    The book reads as a collective (…)

  • Constant member Nicolas Malevé will lead the discussion on intellectual property and piracy in Nova with: Florent Latrive: journalist of Libération and author of the book ’Du bon usage de la piraterie’ www.freescape.eu.org/piraterie Jérémie Zimmerman: co-founder and spokesman of Quadrature du (…)

  • Last Samedie of the season:
    14h - 17h : Workshop with Anouk Adel on collective practises by Starhawk: English - reservation required
    17h-19h : presentations by An Mertens (Français: Quand Donna, Linus et Octavia se retrouvent), Femke Snelting... - open for everyone!
    19-21h : auberge (…)

  • Under the claim "professionalize the professionals" the Erich Pommer Institut, supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, is offering a series of workshops within its programme Essential Legal Framework.
    Film production, film financing and exploitation contain a multitude of legal (…)

  • July

  • Puerto is a hospitable place in the centre of Brussels where homeless
    people can find help if they want to live independently. Every Monday they are welcome to come and eat a three course meal, prepared by a volunteer, at an affordable price. Together with these volunteers and Puerto guests, (…)

  • This workshop is a detour through the city of Ghent guided by environmental data. Fit up with a self-made antenna, city walkers are dwelling through the electro magnetic fields of Ghent.
    Part 1 EMF antenna
    After a contextualization of the workshop by a presentation and introduction of EMF, (…)

  • To explore the possibilities of bringing electronics closer to bodies and plants we are organizing a workshop with the artists Hannah Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi in which you will learn how to use textiles and electronics to interact with humans and plants.
    Human bodies and plants are not (…)

  • September

  • When the arts labs (kunstenwerkplaatsen), Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne and BRXLBRAVO started cooperating on the Artslab² project, the multitude of artists in Brussels became a pivotal point, as well as the complexity of network(s), its multilingual and geographically dispersed landscape and (…)

  • When the arts labs (kunstenwerkplaatsen), Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne and BRXLBRAVO started cooperating on the Artslab² project, the multitude of artists in Brussels became a pivotal point, as well as the complexity of network(s), its multilingual and geographically dispersed landscape and (…)

  • October

  • Wearable installation
    How do we interact with each other – how do you deal with physical proximity? Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will set up a playful exercise in the Constant workspace, showing a moment in her research on physical computing, wearables and sound.
    (a moment in a (…)

  • On October 2, Constant launches Constant Verlag, a growing on-line
    repository, currently containing more than 60 texts on digital art and
    infrastructure. Some of those texts were already available on our
    website, others only existed on our personal harddrives. Now, Constant
    Verlag allows (…)

  • Presentation of Verlag online publishing tool.

  • Constant member An Mertens and 2 other members of Samedies (Agnes Bewer, Juliane de Moerloze) organise a workshop about wikis at Amazone, resource centre for equality between women and men. Following questions are on the menu:
    – what type of wiki to use?
    – how to install and set up a wiki?
    – (…)

  • Open workshop - bring your project involving electronics and let’s work on it together. If you have no specific project in mind, you can come, check it out and get some electric inspiration and a conversation . During this pre-spring weekend artistic DIYers can: *Continue their electronic (…)

  • Open workshop - bring your project involving electronics and let’s work on it together. If you have no specific project in mind, you can come, check it out and get some electric inspiration and a conversation . During this pre-spring weekend artistic DIYers can: *Continue their electronic (…)

  • November

  • Jonctions/Verbindingen is the bi-annual multi-disciplinary festival organised by Constant. The 12th edition of the festival proposes three threads: Shades of Grey Literature (an invitation to discover, play and worry about the numerous documents, commentaries and traces which organise electronic (…)

  • January 2010

  • French is the language spoken during the Samedies-meetings, therefore the content of this post is in French. Tx for your comprehension.
    Au programme:
    10:00 Accueil: koekjes, hugs & échanges matinaux...
    10:30 Imagemagic: La magie continue / De magie duurt voort !
    Nous donnerons un (…)

  • Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will present her Softwearables trajectory during Dorkbot at iMAL. It will be a combination of softsensors, proximity and measurements.

  • In this course, Lieven Moors will give an introduction to the GNU/Linux system from the viewpoint of a musician, and give an overview of some of the most influential open source projects for audio and midi.
    As a musician, Lieven Moors always thought that commercial software offerings were too (…)

  • Tracks in electr(on)ic fields is a new Constant publication with texts and images documenting the 10th Verbindingen/Jonctions festival.
    This publication contains contributions in English, French and Dutch and was edited by Constant featuring Clementine Delahaut, Laurence Rassel and Emma (…)