May 2010 - April 2011

  • March

  • 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 (…)

  • May

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

  • View by Thread is an exhibition that looks at some of the key themes running through the practice of De Geuzen, with a.o. Femke Snelting, member of Constant.
    The exhibition explores the tactics they have employed in their unique approach to multi-visual research. Among others, The Mobile (…)

  • What happens when a talented team of illustrators, graphic designers and graffiti artists starts working with Open Source softwares like Gimp, Inkscape and FontForge? What if the experimental results are printed on the press of Plus-tôt Te Laat and then handed over to students of the Ecole de (…)

  • Are you currently working on an electronic tinkering project? Do you want to discover all kinds of buttons, potentiometers, infrared detectors, movement detectors, gassensors, coloursensors, pressure sensors, sonar etc? Are you curious to see how you can use these handmade - reused – new buttons (…)

  • A meeting for people interested in working with video and open source tools.
    Some tasks are easier done by typing commands in a terminal then by using a graphic interface software. Selecting cuts, sound replacements, working with stills ... Especially handy when there is serial repetitive work (…)

  • The first radioshow of Radio La Cage/Radio Berenkuil will be broadcasted by Radio Panik 105.4fm on 13-5 from 7pm till 7.30pm. This show is the result of a collaboration between Feza asbl and Constant vzw.
    For the occasion we warmly invite you to come and listen to the show with a glass of (…)

  • Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will present a chapter of her
    Softwearables Trajectory during Gosie Vervloessem’s Domestic Science Club. She will move the focus from electricity in the body to measuring Ohm from the body. How much power do you need shake a hand? What factors are at play in (…)

  • The working day of the women collective Samedies will be organised with morning sessions around Sox (soundfiles in bash) and rdvz, the free software alternative to Doodle.
    After the lunch (please bring something) the group will be split up in working groups according to the needs of the (…)

  • One day before the Libre Graphics meeting starts, Constant organises LG-school, aimed at teachers and students from art- and design schools in Belgium and abroad. LG-school is an intense day around the potential and challenges of Free Software for learning, experimenting and making creative (…)

  • From 27-30 May, Constant and De Pianofabriek host the international Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), a yearly event where developers and users of graphics tools such as Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus and Fontforge get together to work on better software.
    You are welcome for a four day event including (…)

  • June

  • From May 27-30, more than 200 developers, designers and artists gathered in De Pianofabriek (Brussels) to discuss Free, Libre and Open Source Software for creative tools. Traveling from over 45 countries, the fifth edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting was an opportunity for collaborative work (…)

  • enSuite is a series of meetings on the imaginary practice organised by Pieter Van Bogaert. From the everyday practice of media users, to the particular practice of artists and spectators or every other practice that makes the move from images to imagination.
    enSuite is guided by the book: the (…)

  • A continuation of the previous session when we looked into some basic mencoder / ffmpeg commands to edit video.
    Based on the work of all participants we’ll investigate what these tools can mean to a workflow. Bring your video’s !
    Program:
    – Look at each others work
    – Select and write (…)

  • As invited guest to the Empyre mailinglist, Andrew Murphie, Mat Wall" Smith and OSP will discuss design in relation to this months’ topic Publishing In Convergence.
    From the introduction by Morgan Currie:
    "Despite the recent hype around ebooks, the future of publishing remains uncertain. The (…)

  • A visit, a conversation and a multi-cultural bread tasting activity.
    The vocabulary discovered during this event will be recorded and added to the Schaarbeekse Taal Dictionary.
    If you want to participate, please contact Peter Westenberg: 0498 493018

  • Yet another meeting of women & free software. On the program: 10h -11h:30 (Constant) : Sécurité de base : nouveaux mdp pour Amaya en utilisant John the Ripper, croissants, café, thé 11h:30 - 12h.30 (Constant) : Discussion avec Aileen Derieg (live sur Skype / IRC) autour son reportage de LGM (…)

  • EMF Orchestra Workshop Workshop leaders: Peter Westenberg and Wendy van Wynsberghe, Constant vzw (art and media), Brussels http://constantvzw.org
    Participants: 15 (maximum) Fee: 20 Euro (lunch and drinks will be provided) Location: BALTAN Laboratories Glaslaan 2, SWA-8 5616 LW Eindhoven The (…)

  • July

  • July 1st marks the long awaited launch of OSP-foundry, a small but growing collection of Libre Fonts designed by OSP with other type collaborators. Complete typefaces, typographic thoughts, works in progress, proofs of concept: these glyphs are free to be used, studied, copied and reworked.

  • Radio-uitzending rond de woorden die werden geregistreerd tijdens het gesprek ’Brood in de kuil’ op 24 juni bij Chez Angelo in Schaarbeek.
    Listen to the radio: Radio Panik: 105.4 FM or online: www.radiopanik.org
    Would you like to participate, please contact Peter Westenberg 0498 493018 or (…)

  • Short and informal presentations in the context of the Active Archives worksession. Artists, developers and others interested in (re)working audio and video archives present projects in process.
    Updates on the program: http://activearchives.org
    The four-day worksession (15-18 July) aims to (…)

  • Constant member An Mertens is invited by architect Miriam Rohde and performer Adva Zakai @ Dominokingdom to talk about collaborative narrative practices within Constant during a workshop on ’Real Time Composition’ with Joao Fiadeiro and others.

  • Video camera’s and still image camera’s that record video produce a range of different file types. Working with these files can be a challenge. Codecs and compressions are not always compatible with your timeline editor, many file formats are too heavy to play on your computer.
    Based on files (…)

  • August

  • A preparatory workshop for the walk on 7 august (see link) to map surveillance camera’s in public places.
    In collaboration with the Nova in the framework of the Pleinopenair festival
    Participation is free,
    Reservation is required.
    Send a mail to: pleinopenair@nova-cinema.org

  • In 2010 + 2011 Denis Devos and Peter Westenberg made with Constant and La Ligue des Droits de l’homme several works around camera-surveillance.
    We organised walks across the city + the law, to match the legal framework and the reality of the city. We captured videos from wireless surveillance (…)

  • During our daily movements through the city, even in public transport, we are being observed by camera’s. During these walks that are a collaboration between Nova, Hacklab, League for human rights and Constant, we’ll see in how far it is childs play to gain access to camera’s placed by shop (…)

  • As part of the E-CULTURE FAIR 2010, BALTAN Laboratories is organising a
    presentation of Dutch, Belgian and German media art laboratories in
    Dortmund. Constant is one of the labs presented at the fair.
    During the fair, in workshops and through live presentations,
    international creatives (…)

  • September

  • Constant supports the GML Field Recorder Challenge, an initiative of Evan Roth to launch a contest for the design of an easily reproducible DIY device that can unobtrusively record graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer’s normal practice in the city.
    The challenge is open to artists, (…)

  • Constant member Peter Westenberg co-wrote with Marcos García (Medialab Prado, Spain) and Catherine Lenoble (Crealab, France) a text on the future of the labs as a contribution to this collection of essays and statements that challenge and debate future strategies and forms of the laboratory (or (…)

  • USB video / Video4Linux
    A meeting in two parts:
    We will look at individual projects that participants are currently working on + start a quick collective investigation how to work with video through USB on a Linux system. What possibilities do different USB cameras, capture devices, real time (…)

  • In the shadow of Schaerbeek, people grow vegetables.
    Green expressions is an occasion to visit this green corner and chat with fellow passionate gardeners. During the meeting, we will record words, expressions and terminology that will be added to the ’Langue Schaerbeekoise’ database.

  • Along the canalside, before and after the Kanal Labs, from sunset onwards, you’ll be able to listen to the hidden sound world of bats. Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will use ’bat detectors’ to make these ultrasonic waves (sounds which are so high, the human ear cannot detect them) (…)

  • Radio broadcast with words & sounds that were recorded in the popular gardens of Infrabel, Rue Navez-Portaels, on 12th September 2010.
    Listen to the radio: Radio Panik: 105.4 FM or online: www.radiopanik.org
    Would you like to participate, please contact Peter Westenberg 0498 493018 or (…)

  • The Brussels based collective Samedies (Women and Free Software) host their colleagues from the Eclectic Tech Festival for a weekend of workshops, presentations, discussions and more.

  • The Constant book Tracks in elect(ron)ic fields won a Fernand Baudin Prize in 2009. This month, the accompanying exhibition travels to Paris for the avant-première of a tour throughout France.

  • October

  • At the upcoming Open Video Conference, Michael Murtaugh and Peter Westenberg will present the current state of Active Archives. The presentation is part of the session "Preserving Our Audiovisual Heritage: Archives Show & Tell, on the Open Floor.
    The talk includes demos of the several (…)

  • Cartography as a common good is a contribution by Rafaella Houlstan-Hasaerts (La Cambre) and Nicolas Malevé, member of Constant, to the book Human Cities, Celebrating Public Space, edited by Barbara Golicnik Marusic, et al, (Brussels: Stichting Kunstboek, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic (…)

  • Meeting, discussion & walk for women about (in)security in the public space around La Cage aux Ours/Verboeckhovenplein.
    In collaboration with Garance.

  • Constant member An Mertens, will be moderating the mobile talkshow Talkaoke during the 20th anniversary of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL). Everyone is warmly invited to come & talk about your ideas, visions, accomplishments.
    Founded in 1990, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is an NGO (…)

  • Osvideo meetings are for artists and video-enthousiasts who share an interest in open source software. During this informal get together, artist Stéfan Piat will talk about the way he uses PureData for video in theater performances. PD offers many opportunities for working with real-time video. (…)

  • November

  • The theme of the 2010 edition of the Make Art festival is in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art. OSP will give a presentation and will be part of the exhibition with the project Nancy and Dingbat Liberation Fest III, an installation for distributed symbol font creation.

  • Ellentriek (Constant & Pianofabriek) meets Code, Arts & Crafts (iMAL) to propose an advanced level workshop on building Arduino-like constructions. A little step towards autonomy and sustainable prototypes.
    When building a physical computing construction using a microcontroller, you (…)

  • Simon Yuill & Dorothé Depeauw will present the collaborative way of working of Object Score Notation in Kaleidoscope at Make Art, the international festival of free art and technologies in Poitiers with this year’s focus on «in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art». (…)

  • A two day workshop on F/LOSS cartographic tactics at the Israeli Center for Digital Art in the framework of the International Conference ’Open Sources versus Military Culture?’ organised by Tsila Hassine & Shenkar Forum for Culture and Society, Jan van Eyck Academie, in collaboration with (…)

  • A two day workshop on F/LOSS cartographic tactics
    Even if cartography is generally produced from a bird’s eye perspective, details cannot be drawn from a remote location; they must be confirmed/corrected/added on the spot. The territory must be litteraly practised by annotating and drawing. (…)

  • An evening with Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir
    In dialogue with artists represented in the Argos collection, Constant interrogates the active potential of the online media archive. Mixing screenings, live-interviews and presentations, we will discuss moral and legal ownership, contracts (…)

  • A meeting of the collective Women & Free Software without workshops or productive code reading, rather a discussion about future plans & organisational resets.

  • Sanjay Bangar, Sebastian Luetgert and Jan Gerber came to visit and showed their projects pad.ma, 0xdb. With Pan.do/ra they are fusing both projects into one codebase. It will become possible to install a pandora version with the option to include features from padma and/ or 0xdb. New feautures (…)

  • Result ofmapping workshop
    Saturday 7 August 2010 13:00-18:00
    @ Plein Open Air
    see article
    http://constantvzw.org/site/New-translation-Video-Surveillance.html

  • December

  • Open Source Video meetings are loosely organised meetings for artists who are interested in open source tools for working with video.
    This meeting several participants will show works made in several time-line editing softwares under Linux, such as: Cinelerra, some command line tools and (…)

  • a textile sound & digital cartography, based on interviews, between testimony and fiction

  • Radio broadcast with words & sounds related to Arab languages that were recorded during the encounters of Schaarbeekse Taal/La Langue Schaerbeekoise. In collaboration with Najet Boulafdal, graduate in Arab Languages.
    Listen to the radio: Radio Panik: 105.4 FM or online: www.radiopanik.org (…)

  • Interference-free Foraging Mobility in Brussels on Electromagnetism, Psychogeophysics and Urban Beekeeping
    Electromagnetic fields can have adverse effects on living organisms - honeybees are especially sensitive.
    Although urban environments provide beneficial habitats for bee colonies, the (…)

  • An evening with Pieter Geenen
    In dialogue with artists represented in the Argos collection, Constant interrogates the active potential of the online media archive. Mixing screenings, live-interviews and presentations, we will discuss moral and legal ownership, contracts and licenses, (…)

  • The collective of Women & Free software meet for a special session around MAN + bash, how to get the best out of man; followed by a work session around VOIP & the installation of the telephony server Asterisk.

  • In the weekend of the 17th of December we will look at the act of repairing. We focus on textile and clothing, looking how something is woven, stitched together, consisting of threads and layers, and how these structures break, wear and tear with a body inside.
    The Friday (…)

  • January 2011

  • Radio broadcast with words & sounds related to the languages spoken in Kameroun, a savoury visit in company of Béatrice of the ’Manko’o shop’, rue Gallaitstraat. Recorded and composed by Clémentine Delahaut..
    Listen to the broadcast: Radio Panik: 105.4 FM or online: www.radiopanik.org
    If (…)

  • he 6-weekly meeting of women & free software will concentrate on the ACTA-agreement, how the negociations are going and what we can do as citizens. We welcome Amelia Andersdotter, European member of Parliament for the Swedish Pirate Party, who will give an introduction to the subject from (…)

  • Constant takes part in the European exchange network of media-organisations LabtoLab. In the week of 24 - 29 January, our partners Medialab Prado Madrid, Kitchen Budapest and PING Nantes will visit Constant and other medialabs in Brussels.
    The collaboration is funded as part of the Grundtvig (…)

  • During this years Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference the video Staring will be shown. This video results from the Ballade sous video surveillance collaboration between the Human rights league and Constant in 2010. Constant member Peter Westenberg will contextualise the subject (…)

  • Welcome at the first meeting of the new year. Open for everyone who is interested in working with Open Source Video tools. Topics of the day: How to produce boxed images / split screens / inserts using open source tools such as PD, Motion, Cinelerra ?
    Also we’ll be preparing the future (…)

  • February

  • Academy Commons is a platform conceived to connect and reinforce research practices beyond academic boundaries.
    Nicolas Malevé, member of Constant, together with team mates Anja Steidinger and Octavi Comeron, will participate to the days "University Struggles Against Austerity" (11-13 February (…)

  • The Active Archive team presents their ongoing work at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies. The meeting with several other Spanish cultural institutions is organised in the context of Arts combinatóries, a project that uses new technologies in order to create new forms of relationships with the cultural (…)

  • Radio broadcast with words & sounds related to the cross meeting between the sculptor of the mannequin factory Sommarti near la Cage aux Ours and the Brussels artist Antonin de Bemels aka le Bonhomme Daniel: stories about words, doubles, puppets and other metamorphoses. Recorded and composed (…)

  • From 2-14 March, Femke Snelting travels to Mali (Bamako), Senegal (Dakar) and Marocco (Casablanca). An international group of cultural organisers meets people and organisations active in the field of contemporary art and design. The trip is organised by the Mondriaan Foundation in collaboration (…)

  • A meeting of the group of women & free software around sox scripting and the integration of sox & e-speak in XML.

  • A meeting for artists, filmers, video makers, vj fanatics, artists who are interested in working with open source tools.
    During this meeting we’ll take some exemple projects of participants as starting point for a hands on comparison between two NLE systems: Cinelerra and Kdenlive.
    Cinelerra (…)

  • "Sniff, Scrape, Crawl"¦" is an ongoing interdisciplinary research project. Through a series of workshops, debates, lectures and presentations, the thematic project was launched with this event in the beginning of 2011 at the Piet Zwart Institute, Master Media Design and Communication in the (…)

  • The collective of ! Co LAPse KoDe will present their latest creation at the Festival for contemporary creation Le Souffle de l’Equinoxe in Poitiers, France. The festival presents 50 creations around the topic of new media & audience participation in performance arts. (…)

  • Screening of the film Rue du Nord in the temporary space of De Schaerbeekse Taal. In collaboration with 2bouts association and Nadine.
    With an introduction by Foued Bellali.
    Rue du Nord Foued Bellali & Cathy De Boeck & Nadia Remy
    50’ - 2003 - ov french, arabe - st english, (…)

  • The association PiNG organises reNUM, an exhibition with collective electronic creations made by artists and a group of people of 60 years old and above, all inhabitants of the Breil area and/or Nantes.
    During a residency in December 2010 Constant worked with the participants around the issue (…)

  • Radio broadcast with words & sounds related to the solidarity march at Place Colignon, organised in the framework of the International Woman’s Day on 8th March 2011.
    Treated words: femme, féministe, mama, oufti, badema, bonjour en chinois, sororité, çiçek, Güçlü.
    Recording & editing: (…)

  • April

  • For the annual art book fair PA/PER VIEW, Agency (Kobe Matthijs) speculates on the question: How to include book making in art practices? How are typeface designers, book binders, lay-outers, etc... taken into consideration by copyright law? Thing 001452 (Orion) and Thing 001535 (Introductory (…)

  • The month of March and April 2011, Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe is doing a residency in Bains::Connective. For the first public moment of this residency, Plankton Bar #39 on the first of April, some of her work will be presented. As another step in her trajectory Softwearables, she (…)

  • 5 members of the design-collective OSP travel to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to participate in Open Design Week. From 3-10 April they tour through the Mekong Delta to meet local F/LOSS fans through workshops, presentations and an exhibition. The second week is reserved for an intense work (…)

  • An Mertens will represent Constant at LabSurLab, collaborating in a workshop on Digital Tools for Performing Arts, moderating a round table about Women & Technology and co-presenting the European network Lab2Lab.
    LabSurlab is a meeting of *labs. Official labs, labs in the margin, (…)

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  • article in De Morgen of thursday april 7, 2011
    by Rick Van Pluymbroeck

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  • Screening, discussion
    in presence of Foued Bellali
    44’, 2006, 2BOUTS asbl - french, arabe - subtitles: french
    Place de Belgique talks about double nationalities and introduces us to men and women who are born in Belgium from Marocan parents. We follow the phases of their socialisation in (…)

  • In the framework of the Transeuropa festival, a transnational festival happening simultaneously in 12 cities throughout Europe, the GenderArtNet’s team and Lorenzo Sandoval will give a cartography workshop in Cluj Napoca, Romania. During the workshop we will explore two threads: A collective (…)

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  • A meeting for those who are interested in working with Open Source Video tools. Topics of the day to be determined.Suggestions? Send a mail to: peter@constantvzw.org or join the osvideo mailing list.
    Mailing list:
    https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/osvideo
    Blog: (…)

  • A meeting of the group of women & free software around the practice of backing-up data on a server.

  • The month of March and April 2011, Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe is doing a residency in Bains::Connective. For the second public moment of this residency, Plankton Bar #40 on the 29th of April, some of her work will be presented, and lots more by the other residents...

  • Screening & discussion on honey & bees in the area, in presence of the filmmaker and previous occupant of the shop, Christina Stadlbauer.
    HONEYSHOP Between September and October 2010, 7 kg of honey - harvested by a colony of urban bees located in Rue Gallait 80 - were exchanged for (…)