May 2009 - April 2010

  • April

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • February

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Last year, two people who made important contributions to the project of Constant - and who, for some of us were close and important people - have passed away.
    At the start of this new year, we have a special thought for Laura Couderc, who was a crucial accomplice in the development of (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • An article in La Capitale about private wireless camera’s and privacy.

  • An article in le Soir on yoogle.
    http://archives.lesoir.be/internet-vous-menace-une-fiche-pendant-une-semaine_t-20100222-00TG6R.html?query=yoogle&firstHit=0&by=10&sort=datedesc&when=-1&queryor=yoogle&pos=1&all=2&nav=1

  • An article in le Soir on yoogle.
    http://archives.lesoir.be/internet-vous-menace-une-fiche-pendant-une-semaine_t-20100222-00TG6R.html?query=yoogle&firstHit=0&by=10&sort=datedesc&when=-1&queryor=yoogle&pos=1&all=2&nav=1

  • The Constant book Tracks in elect(ron)ic fields won a Fernand Baudin Prize 2009. This exhibition in Brussels presents the bookawards and other nominations.
    Opening, award ceremony of the honorary diploma’s and release of the catalogue: 25th of February 2010 at 6 pm
    For it’s second edition (…)

  • The great wish for the closing event of this conference was a showcase of
    the Kaleidoscope project. Unfortunately the infrastructure of the
    university makes it very difficult to set this up.
    Therefore Constant member An Mertens will give a lecture on Kaleidoscope,
    referring also to other (…)

  • Sonic Acts organises the Poetics of Space festival in Paradiso, De Balie, NIMK, Melkweg, Planetarium and STEIM in Amsterdam between 25 and 28 februari. Constant member Peter Westenberg will be talking during the panel "Poetics of hybrid Space".
    For details on the festival see www.sonicacts.com

  • The collective of women & free software will meet up again for a day of code, discussion, server management, exchange of ideas & experiences and writing & translating articles.
    Programme :
    10h : Accueil avec cramique et café
    10h30 - 13h00 :
    – Installations et décisions sur (…)

  • A walk under / about video surveillance followed by a discussion
    This walk with many visuals will follow a chain of video surveillance camera’s of very different nature, ranging from shop security to baby sit and police camera’s. We’ll look at the images we capture. They will be discussed by a (…)

  • Yoogle! is an online game allowing users to play with the parameters of the web 2.0 and to exchange roles between the different actors of its economy. At the occasion of 7/24:30! - Technologie, mon amour, organised by the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, Michel Cleempoel will present the new version (…)

  • March

  • An article in the French newspaper Liberation & ecrans.fr on Yoogle.
    http://www.ecrans.fr/Yoogle-cafte-tout,9369.html
    http://www.liberation.fr/medias/0101622916-yoogle-cafte-tout

  • An article in the French newspaper Liberation & ecrans.fr on Yoogle.
    http://www.ecrans.fr/Yoogle-cafte-tout,9369.html
    http://www.liberation.fr/medias/0101622916-yoogle-cafte-tout

  • In the framework of "The human condition in the digital age" organized by Banlieues and CFS.
    Using the game Yoogle! as a starting point, we will analyze the traces we left behind while surfing and what can be done with them.
    – WithMichel Cleempoel (Constantvzw), Nicolas Hanoteau (Banlieues (…)

  • Live street broadcast of Radio Berenkuil / Radio La Cage.
    Place: Rue Van Ooststraat 52, on the pavement
    A radio conversation between two groups of inhabitants around the use of language in the neighbourhood. The questions: do we speak in the same language with people we know, with friends, (…)

  • Nicolas Malevé, Constant member, will take part in Icarus film maker (or the history of a vertical movement of the sight), an afternoon of reflections about the history of aerial view through art history, through the histories of thought, techniques and sciences, war imagery, cartography and of (…)

  • Constant member Nicolas Malevé takes part in the panel discussion L’image écartelée entre mémoire collective, réappropiation et exploitation.
    The panel is part of the professional day with the title: Main basse sur les archives ? taking place in the framework of the documentary festival Cinéma (…)

  • The Dingbats Liberation Fest adventure continues in Nancy.
    Invited by the my.monkey gallery, OSP presents some of its works and will open a new workshop Dingbats Liberation Fest: into the grid.
    The collaborative font project Dingbats Liberation (DLFo) proposes to redraw the Dingbats and (…)

  • The collective around the server Amaya meets up to continue explorations and exchanges in bash/mysql#free social networktools etc.
    9.30h - 10h: welcome & breakfast
    10h -13h: Collective presentations & work
    13h - 14.50h: Open lunch - bring your food!
    14.30 - 16.30h: Workgroups
    16.30 (…)

  • Berlin

  • A meeting open to everybody working with video, curious for free software and open source ways of creating video. This first meeting of the year will be to prepare the coming meetings, to fix some dates, to see what topics everyone finds interesting to work on, present, discuss. So we have an (…)

  • Object Score Notation is the software that co-performed in Kaleidoscope during VJ12, Nov 2010.