April 2013 - March 2014

  • April

  • Join this informal moment to taste some of the work that is being done in the collective studios in Variable. Between 17:00 - 19:00 there are micro presentations, drinks, chats: barcamp style.
    On the programme: Knitic presents their Open Source Knitting machine at the end of their residency. (…)

  • Constant members Peter Westenberg and An Mertens were invited to discuss La Langue Schaerbeekoise/De Schaarbeekse Taal, the language of ’Escarbeque’ in the Spanish speaking community of Brussels, in the research group Euraca. Euraca is part of 404: school not found, and looks into the political (…)

  • The yearly Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) gathers users and developers of Free, Libre and Open Source software for creative work. LGM is a self-organised event, put together by designers, artists, free culture activists and software developers because they want to make their Libre Graphics toolbox (…)

  • *20 April 2013*
    *EN :* *//*The Patching Circles are open workshop session to learn and share about the pure-data software and other.
    /_Workshop: 13h - 19h_/
    This time, apart from Easter eggs and digital bunny stories, there won’t be any specific focus on the circle. Come up with your (…)

  • May

  • Interview avec Clémentine Delahaut dans la Dernière Heure, 22 octobre 2012 Interview avec Clémentine Delahaut sur le Journal Parlé de Télé-Bruxelles, 22 octobre 2012 Interview avec An Mertens dans la Capitale, 23 octobre 2012 Interview dans Jardin Public sur Radio Panik, le 18 octobre 2012 (…)

  • Join this informal moment to taste some of the work that is being done in the collective studios in Variable. Between 17:00 - 19:00 there are micro presentations, drinks, chats: barcamp style.
    Variable Loop takes place every first Thursday of the month.

  • An afternoon of digital creations of all kinds and free workshops!

  • Ellentriek goes textile: liberating knitting machines
    In the eighties and nineties electronic knitting machines were readily available. But it was never a simple task to knit an image, a drawing, photograph, text you designed yourself with it. You could buy premade images on floppies of punch (…)

  • From 22 May until 31 May, The Libre Graphics Research Unit presents Books with an attitude, an exhibition of printed books made with Libre digital tools. This exhibition includes Libre bookdesign and typography from all over Europe, demonstrating how content, aesthetics and Libre tools can play (…)

  • From 22 to 23 May the Libre Graphics Research Unit gathers in Porto and this meeting concludes the two year project. Hosted by associate partner Manufactura Independente in Maus Habito we will present and discuss all work that was developed in the context of the Research Unit: The Piksels and (…)

  • Constant member An Mertens is invited to draw a subjective history of i-literature for an audience of librarians and teachers of creative writing in Nantes. The conference will be followed by a hands-on workshop, ’Writing a collaborative fiction’. This program is part of [lire+écrire]numérique, (…)

  • Mz. Baltazar’s Laboratory is a feminist hackerspace and an artist collective based in Vienna. They work with open source technology and philosophy, in a women only space, operating a non-­" hierachic teaching and informal learning context. The lab offers women space to appropriate electronics (…)

  • June

  • Eleven Orderings is a proposal by Michael Murtaugh and Nicolas Malevé to revisit the collection of documents of the Norwegian artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard, some 25 000 items collected throughout his life and housed in a former dairy in Blaker near Oslo.
    Eleven Orderings will be shown in the (…)

  • The Archive in Motion investigates the ways in which archival concepts and practices have been transformed under the impact of the radical changes in writing and recording technologies. Archive in Motion is a research project of the University of Oslo.
    The workshop given by Michael Murtaugh (…)

  • A series of ultrashort presentations about experimental projects developed in the studios of ’Variable’ in Schaerbeek. You’re welcome to discover the high quality creations, the artists and designers and their technologies.
    Variable is a collective artist workspace in Schaerbeek. It houses (…)

  • Eleven Orderings is a proposal by Michael Murtaugh and Nicolas Malevé to revisit the collection of documents of the Norwegian artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard, some 25 000 items collected throughout his life and housed in a former dairy in Blaker near Oslo.
    Eleven Orderings will be shown in the (…)

  • Eleven Orderings is a proposal by Michael Murtaugh and Nicolas Malevé to revisit the collection of documents of the Norwegian artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard, some 25 000 items collected throughout his life and housed in a former dairy in Blaker near Oslo.
    Eleven Orderings will be shown in the (…)

  • Shared Digital Futures is a conference that explores the impact of digital network technologies for cultural production. With Tools for a Read-Write World Femke will contribute to the panel New collective authorship.
    To develop and produce shareable content, many different practices are (…)

  • A presentation of the project Erkki Kurenniemi (In 2048) in the framework of Archives of Software Art, an event organized by Jussi Parikka and Burak Arikan. The presentation will take as a point of departure the rich set of documents collected and created by Erkki Kurenniemi and introduce to the (…)

  • The Patching Circles are open workshop sessions to learn and share about the pure-data software and other. During this session we’ll look at different tools available to use puredata with a mobile platform with iOS or Android. Artist and programmer Yacine Sebti will come to share his experience (…)

  • July

  • The studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors every first thursday of the month for ’LOOP’, an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-space. This Thursday there will be ao a performative intervention of LiveObjectTheatreRemix by the artists (…)

  • Femke Snelting presents Tools for a read-write world (Interactivos?’13) at the Open Design Conference in Barcelona
    "Interactivos? is a hybrid between an intense collaborative prototyping workshop, a seminar and a showcase. For a period of two weeks artists, designers, developers and educators (…)

  • An Mertens will present the F/LOSS Arts Lab Variable at the yearly Free Software Meeting LSM/RMML. From 6th till 11th of July this institution of the Libre Software world, the LSM invites all Libre Software enthusiasts to meet in a relaxed setting to share and find out more about Libre Software: (…)

  • A meeting between residents: Olivier Heinry and An Mertens, members of the working group around algorithm and literature Algolit and Olatz Otalora and Daniela Brill, members of the collective Grapa, invite you to their dinner table presentation in Variable for multiple exchanges around spam (…)

  • August

  • The first encounter in the series of Splinterfields is organised by nadine, an artistic organisation that moves within constantly changing artistic practices through continuous questioning of itself. nadine encourages alternative research formats for artists and collectives to work with. (…)

  • The design caravan Open Source Publishing invites you for a design education experiment this summer "” from 26 until 30 August 2013
    By and large, graphic design students bring a laptop to school, and create their work using digital software tools. This hard- and software represents a (…)

  • September

  • Constant Variable celebrates her second anniversary !
    Therefore we’re happy to invite you to celebrate this together on Thursday 5th September, during this special edition of the Variable Loop !, our monthly dates for ultrashort presentations and exchanges with the artists who made them in the (…)

  • The second encounter in the series of Splinterfields is organised by FoAM, a cultural laboratory reimagining possible futures at the interstices of art, science, nature and everyday life. FoAM is a dynamic entity that can change shape and scale as required. We can be a transdisciplinary (…)

  • Tot later is a novel by Constant member An Mertens.
    Version 2.0 will be launched in a festive way at Ateliers Mommen on Saturday 14th September. This edition is the commercial follow-up of the author’s cut CIAO/Tot Later 1.0 published by Constant.
    You’re very welcome to join the party!

  • Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software. This event is organised by the Brussels Hackerspaces (UrLab & Hsbxl). Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will facilitate a conversation about free/libre. She will also present a version of an existing open (…)

  • A day of creativity and entertainment with DIY workshops, exhibition, DIY cinema, kidzone..
    Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will show an interactive installation, with open hardware & conductive textile fabricated by master knitter Claire Williams.

  • I Share Therefore I am is an exhibition organised by esc medien kunst labor in the context of Steirischer Herbst, examining how digital technologies impact interpersonal relationships and communication. Femke contributes with a performative lecture on Free Software for distributed work, looking (…)

  • The Death of the Authors, 1941 edition will be part of the virtual gallery in the exhibition "Les littératures numériques d’hier à demain", organised by the Electronic Literature Organisation in the framework of their event ’Locating the text’ in Paris.

  • Monthly workshop focusing on Blender + Python. We have been quite chaotic the last months due to too much work and a too nice summer. But we’re back and start this academic year with a workshop programmed on the 27th of September.
    The main purpose of these workshops is to manipulate Blender (…)

  • As a new season begins, we’ll restart on a good basis. For the newcomers or the veterans, some small exercises on the basis of Pure-data are never lost, and the opportunity to (re)discover the subtleties of the pd language, it’s openness and versatility.
    Come over with your questions, (…)

  • October

  • A workshop mixing textile design with digital culture and tools (Floss in soft-and hardware). We will use a hacked knitting machine (Knitic). When you connect the machine with a computer, it turns into a kind of textile printer. At the same time our knitted surfaces will have conductive (…)

  • The studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors every first thursday of the month for ’LOOP’, an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-space.
    VARIABLE is a ’Free Libre Open Source Software (F/LOSS) Arts Lab’. There are collective workspaces (…)

  • The third encounter in the Splinterfields series is organised by OKNo. In 2013 OKNO launched ALOTOF (A Laboratory On The Open Fields), an international long-term experiment exploring the potential of open-air modes of creation. Within the scope of ALOTOF, OKNO has invited media artist Shu (…)

  • What? Command-Line? Yes. Exactly. That thing with the computer where you see characters flying by just like when Neo found out about the Matrix. It seems cryptic and magic, doesn’t it? People doing this can only do illegal things for sure. Not.
    The console, where all those commands happened to (…)

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    10:00 -> 17:00 Workshop: "Compositing in Blender" in Libre Video Lab.
    A workshop in Compositing in Blender. Hosted by David Collignon and Vincent Gires.
    (Vincent G. on BBUG: "I will start with a quick overview of the interface: create nodes, dots, frames and (…)

  • Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) is often referred to as the world’s first computer programmer. Initiated five years ago, the Ada Lovelace Day is about sharing stories and raising the achievements of women in STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Every year people organise their own events (…)

  • Michael Murtaugh and Nicolas Malevé will contribute to the seminar Document, fiction et droit, organised by ArBa-EsA and the University of Aix-Marseille. Their presentation will focus on the relationship between algorithms and legal code in their work on the Kurenniemi archive.

  • November

  • Constant members Michael Murtaugh and Nicolas Malevé present a second iteration of the Data Radio in the framework of the Kurenniemi’s retrpospective in Kiasma. The project is a webradio that broadcasts Kurenniemi’s audio archive. Live stream is made of audio files from the archive, audio tracks (…)

  • Long before the slogan ’Information wants to be Free’ was coined, the founder of the modern library Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) had a dream. He believed in ’Free Libraries for Every Soul’.
    Hacker/cyber-librarian Marcell Mars, researcher Edwin Gardner and the association for arts and media (…)

  • This walk explores the neighbourhood Bosnie in Saint-Gilles.We will be looking for hybrid, trans-lingual and intriguing words that will put us on the trace of international connections in the neighbourhood.
    Globalism from below, ties with family abroad, historical local cultures .. there are (…)

  • The studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors every first Thursday of the month for ’LOOP’, an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-space.
    VARIABLE is a ’Free Libre Open Source Software (F/LOSS) Arts Lab’. There are collective workspaces (…)

  • Flossie 2013 brings together FLOSS women developers, entrepreneurs, researchers and policy-makers, digital artists and social innovators for an exciting mix of talks, spontaneous discussions and open workshops. Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will give a workshop on Open Hardware (…)

  • The project La Langue Schaerbeekoise is included in the exhibition and performance project Dissident Desire #2: Terrain of Threshold Voices in District in Berlin.
    The exhibition and performance project Terrain of Threshold Voices is dedicated to forms of artistic research on language in (…)

  • Femke hosts a table on Free Culture Tools as part of the Free Culture Brunch Club at FREE?!, a one-day journey into the culture of sharing.
    If Free Culture is the use, sharing and reuse of digital artefacts in the context of the Internet, than Free Culture Tools should find themselves (…)

  • December

  • Constant member Peter Westenberg and collaegue Clémentine Delahaut are invited to give a lecture about the project of La Langue Schaerbeekoise/De Schaarbeekse Taal for the students Master in the Social Work of the University of Gent, in the framework of the class ’Culture Studies’.

  • The studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors every first thursday of the month for ’LOOP’, an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-space.
    VARIABLE is a ’Free Libre Open Source Software (F/LOSS) Arts Lab’. There are collective workspaces (…)

  • Verbindingen/Jonctions 14

  • Radio Bosnia is a monthly radio broadcast with a choice of hybrid, translinguist, invented, unreal, neologist words recorded in the borough Bosnie in the neighborhood Saint-Gilles in Brussels.
    On the menu: the words of the month, portraits of people and places in the neighborhood.
    Radio (…)

  • January 2014

  • Make your own music using a computer! As the workshop will be in French, the rest of this article is also in French. Thanks for your comprehension. Vous êtes fan de techno, de rap où de musique de films ? L’atelier Open Sound Lab propose de réaliser vous-même vos propres productions grâce aux (…)

  • Blender bpy/bge: Introduction to shaders 10:00 -> 18:00

  • Feel like sculpting in 3D using Blender?
    The workshop consists of a one day course with exercises and treats frequently asked questions.
    Participants are invited to propose ideas for one day projects and long term research.
    Participation is open for debutants and experts.
    Language: (…)

  • Radio Bosnia is a monthly radio broadcast with a choice of hybrid, translinguist, invented, unreal, neologist words recorded in the borough Bosnie in the neighborhood Saint-Gilles in Brussels.
    On the menu: the words of the month, portraits of people and places in the neighborhood.
    Radio (…)

  • Internet is becoming more and more densely populated with services that monitor data traffic, networks and users. Cloud computing services claim a good, safe and transparent use of your data, but these very data are stored in unknown places and ’served’ back to you wherever and whenever you (…)

  • Constant member Peter Westenberg contributes with a lecture and a workshop to the event Dispositifs Post-, which is organised by Idensitat, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Recreant Cruïlles, Sala d’Art Jove and Hangar in Barcelona.
    24-25.01.2014 | SEMINAR Place: Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Aragó 255, (…)

  • Each year, as of January 1, thousands of works enter into the public domain, 70 years after the death of their authors. The period of protection by copyright expires, and the works become a public treasure that everyone can appreciate and use freely.
    This year, on 25th January, we will (…)

  • February

  • The work by Constant, The Death of the Authors/edition 1941, is on show in the virtual gallery of Jeu de Paume during the exhibition ’PRINT ERROR/ PUBLISHING IN THE DIGITAL AGE’ curated by Alessandro Ludovico, artist, new media theorist and chief editor of the magazine Neural.
    This online (…)

  • Jaron Rowan from Conservas/FcForum will do a short presentation of a booklet aimed at analyzing and understanding the economic models that sustain free cultural practices to later suggest a set of policiy reccomendations aimed at helping this emerging sector to develope. After an initial phase (…)

  • The studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors every first thursday of the month for ’LOOP’, an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-space. This Thursday there will be a.o. presentations by the artists in residency Maria Karagianni & (…)

  • Blender + Python : Introduction to python in Blender.
    Co-organized by François Zajéga, Julien Deswaef and David Collignon.

  • Brendan Howell, artist in residence from Berlin, will share his findings
    from a series of "Screenless Offiice" experiments. His intent is to
    produce an artistic operating system that does not require any raster
    based displays.
    During his residency, Brendan will work on several modules for a (…)

  • March

  • The studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors every first thursday of the month for ’LOOP’, an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-spaces.
    VARIABLE is a ’Free Libre Open Source Software (F/LOSS) Arts Lab’. There are collective (…)

  • The title of this Blender BPY/BGE workshop is a parody of the "Facebook lookback". The idea is to work on a series of scripts to automate the creation of movies based on images and videos taken from a folder. Ideally, by changing the content of the folder and re-running the scripts, you’d obtain (…)

  • This is a workshop on Blender. David Colignon guides participants through exercises. Together the group will address some Frequently Asked Questions surrounding Blender, such as:
    Does open source software stand a chance against their proprietary equivalent ? Is it possible to do a full open (…)

  • Laurence Claes, Aurea Harvey en Femke Snelting nemen deel aan een avond georganiseerd door de feministische organisatie L-Salon:
    "L-Salon installeert op 15 maart iSalon, een vrouwvriendelijke playground waar we met 0 en 1 aan de slag gaan. Drie female geeks geven hun invulling aan informatie- (…)

  • Radio Bosnie is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On the menu: hybrid word of the month, portraits of extra-ordinairy people and places.
    Every thursday 11:00 on Radio Alma 101.9FM (Bxl) and on stream: www.radioalma.be
    Every fourth (…)