February 2015 - January 2016

  • January

  • The Libre Graphics Meeting will take place 29 April – 2 May 2015 in Toronto, Canada. The event welcomes your contribution and is looking for in-depth presentations on Libre Graphics technologies, showcases of excellent work made using Libre Graphics tools and new ideas for future approaches, (…)

  • What sound is produced by work ? The studio of a pianobuilder, the workplace of a metal worker, the tools used by the shoemaker, the salon of a hairdresser ... How does baking bread sound in the middle of the night ?
    In several shops and enterprises in Saint-Gilles, sound artist Vincent (…)

  • Apart from turning thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other by hand with needles or by machine, to knit also means to become closely and firmly joined, to grow together, to combine from various elements.
    The first Constant V starts with a (…)

  • Come find our hacked knitting machine at our Fosdem stand we share with Libre Graphics Magazine.

  • February

  • Renseignements et réservations : 02/519.55.96 ou serveduc@kbr.be

  • Fats Waller, Nicolas Tesla, Beatrix Potter and Sergei Rachmaninov are some of the many artists who have left this world during the second world war, in 1942. Their works entered the public domain on 1st january 2014 and are now widely available on the web.
    These authors will be reanimated in (…)

  • Radio Bosnia is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels.
    On Thursday 11:00 on Radio Alma 101.9FM (Bxl) and on stream: www.radioalma.be
    Rebroadcasted every fourth Thursday at 16:30 on Radio Panik 105.4 FM and on the stream: (…)

  • March

  • Participate to a weekend dedicated to the subject of art and feminism, learn more about wikipedia editing and help promoting diversity among the online encyclopedia’s community and articles!
    A temporary library on art+feminism will be accessible, built by the participants who are invited to (…)

  • In March the window of Constant will host the installation of The Death of the Authors, 1943. This chatbot opera features Fats Waller, Nicolas Tesla, Beatrix Potter and Sergei Rachmaninov; four artists who died in 1943, and whose works entered the public domain on 1st January 2014. These (…)

  • Play Babel is a soundwalk by artist Anna Raimondo, through the neighborhood Bosnie in Saint-Gilles, Brussels. The walk was created in the framework of the Constant project "Parlez-vous Saint-Gillois ?" and three guided walks will be organised for Saint-Gilles Ville de Mots
    The soundwalk Play (…)

  • Kask, School of Arts in Gent, is organising a project week on the topic of Open Tools. Students from 9 different ateliers will collaborate. Constant member An Mertens is invited by the Media Art group to look into different ways in which algorithms and code can transform literary practises. With (…)

  • A special live broadcast of the radioshow Radio Bosnie, made with participants of the CPAS (Public Center for Social Welfare). The show is broadcasted from a mobile studio on Place Bethlehem, on the terrace of the greek restaurant Les Petits Os, Chausseé de Forest 110. Come listen to the (…)

  • April

  • The city counts less trees than humans. Maybe that is the reason why inhabitants cultivate such strong relationships with the trees that are there. During this walk storyteller and nature guide An Mertens invites you to meet some remarkable trees in the neighbourhood Bosnia in St-Gilles.
    You (…)

  • How do supports of writing - a book or a single piece of paper, pencils, typewriters or internet pages - work on our thoughts? How do ’chance supports’ (a train ticket, the back of an envelope, the margin of a book) challenge common ideas and practices of archiving, binding, displaying, (…)

  • «From Bosnia to the world and back» is a cartographic project by Rafaella Houlstan-Hasaerts, that situates the Bosnia "neighborhood" in Saint-Gilles in the middle of its worldwide network.
    The installation in the window of Constant (Constant V), from 23rd April till 4th June, connects the (…)

  • A walk along Spanish and Portuguese places in the neighborhood Bosnië in Sint-Gillis. We visit some cafés and shops en talk about past and future of the latin cultural heritage. The walk focusses on spoken language. Dialects, prononciations, hybrid use of language and cultural luggage express (…)

  • During The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), the annual meeting on free and open source software for graphics, a series of Constant friends will present their latest ideas during lightning talks, workshops and meetings. On the program are a.o.: Eric Schrijver, Stéphanie Vilayphiou, Loraine Furter, (…)

  • May

  • "I think that conversations are the best, biggest thing that free software has to offer its user"

  • Histories of the Feminist Server(s) is a contribution to Exquisite Corps, a colloborative piece for Lady Justice (’Reconsidering gender and technology in the age of the distributed network’), featured in the on-line publication New Criticals (’New criticism of all that exists’).
    Looking (…)

  • Exhibition opening : Saturday, 16.5.2015, 17.30

    Special opening hours :
    Fr, 15.5.2015, 18.00 – 23.00
    Sa, 16.5.2015, 11.00 – 19.00
    Su, 17.5.2015, 11.00 – 17.00
    Öffnungszeiten 19.5 – 26.6. :
    Tuesday – Friday, 14.00 – 19.00 and on appointment

  • June

  • Participants in Promiscuous Pipelines can be artists and/or thinkers and/or developers interested in rethinking tool-sets, methods or systems. You are invited to bring existing or imagined projects that care about connections between social, technical and physical worlds.
    There are 5 places (…)

  • (Presentation in the context of the Public Library Festival)
    "Humanity is at a turning point in its history. The mass of available information is formidable. New instruments are necessary for simplifying and condensing it, or the intellect will never know how to overcome the difficulties which (…)

  • As part of the residency of artists Billy Bultheel & Enad Marouf in Brussels, Constant will be co-organising a close-reading session of Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing on 5, 6, 7th June 2015. The idea is to create a space for presentation, exchange, discussion on new ways of reading (…)

  • On the upcoming Supervlieg / Supermouche festival, Jérémie Boyard and Colin Ponthot will set up their Bumperbreak soundsystem vehicle to remix words from the database of Parlez-Vous Saint-Gillois ?
    http://parlezvous1060.be/w/
    http://bumperbreak.com/
    http://www.supervliegsupermouche.be/fr/ (…)

  • The children of the class of Frédérique Robert van de Ecole des 4 Saisons invite you to a broadcast in which they give you their vision on Brussels in 2050.

  • How could we address the impact of contemporary digital technologies on security and surveillance mechanisms and its influence on posthuman subject-formation?
    Femke contributes to the fourth gathering in the Posthuman Glossary series with a walk through Constants’ work with, on and around (…)

  • During a short performative workshop we’ll build an Urban Hacker Bench in front of Constant. The bench will serve nicely during the summertime, as a non-profit spot to chat, hang out, observe passers by, cast a critical look on the work on show in Constant V, or just enjoy the sunshine ..
    This (…)

  • Constant is invited to participate in the project Being Urban, organised by Adrien Grimmeau and Pauline de La Boulaye in ISELP.
    The objective of BEING URBAN is to reflect on the place of artistic interventions in public space that move away from landmarks to less visible and immaterial (…)

  • July

  • Exhibition Î ­view
    Opening 2 july – 18:00
    A noisy street in Sint-Gilles. A shopping window in which a monitor and speakers show and play what happens further on in the street. A film without scenario in which the protagonists are the passers by, the cars, birds, the market salesmen. The (…)

  • August

  • Constant members Michael Murtaugh and An Mertens will give a workshop on text, code and text-to-speech in the framework of the Hackers and Designers Summercamp organised in De Punt in Amsterdam.
    More about the workshop: Picture this: In 2084, after the decay of Google and the deprecation of (…)

  • A third edition of the collectively organised summer school Relearn is in the making. You are welcome to join from 20-25 August in Zinneke (Brussels). Sign up for the mailinglist to follow updates on the program, and how to participate: https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/relearn

  • Promiscuous Pipelines was a worksession about modularity in software processes that took place from 31 August to 5 September 2015 in FoAM in Brussels.
    ’Universalism is not rejected but particularized; what is needed is a new kind of articulation between the universal and the particular’ (…)

  • September

  • At this special edition of the FoAM apéro you can discover some of the processes that we have been running at Promiscuous Pipelines, a worksession trying to re-imagine modularity, knowing that software processes are inherently leaky and contextual. The apéro is a regular social get-together of (…)

  • Constant member An Mertens will take part in this evening programme of Coded Matter(s) in De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, with a presentation of her research on ’Algorithmic storytellers’. Other presenters are: rybn, Sjef Van Gaalen, Michelle Kasprzak.
    More about Algorithmic Wildlife:
    As (…)

  • "Diverted Objects" is a one-day workshop developed by the collective LibreObjet around the "fork" applied to objects. The ’fork’ means an object having a common root with a second one. Initially twins, these two objects will separate and follow their own developments. Starting with a (…)

  • Interactivos? ’15 is a collaborative prototyping workshop that will take place from 2 to 16 December 2015 in Madrid. Through this open call Interactivos? ’15 will select 8 projects to be developed.
    Interactivos? is a long term running concept: during two weeks you get inspirational & (…)

  • «Diverted Objects» is an installation developed by the collective LibreObjet around the "fork" applied to objects. The "fork" means an object having a common root with a second one. Initially twins, these two objects will separate and follow their own developments. The results of a one-day (…)

  • "The Death of the Authors - 1943, a botopera’ will be performed again in Wiels on Friday 11th September as the opening act of the Brussels Poetry Fest. The installation will be on show in Wiels untill Sunday 13th September.
    With : BotsWaller, NICKola tesla, Beatrix Botter, Rachmanibot & (…)

  • Femke represents Mondothèque at the Mundaneum Edition of the Otlet Salons, a "network event that aims to foster new cooperation across the borders of disciplines, institutions and society." With Pieter Colpaert (Keynote: How data want to be reused), Marc Vael (ISACA, UAMS and Solvay), Jan Van (…)

  • October

  • "Once one read; today one refers to, checks through, skims." - Paul Otlet, 1903
    Mondotheque contributes to Ideographies of knowledge, an event that brings together a number of digital librarians, media theorists, designers, researchers and artists to discuss novel ways of reading and writing (…)

  • During his residency at Constant Studio in WTC25, the audiovisual artist Stéfan Piat worked on an upgrade of both software and hardware for his project "Rear window".
    "Rear window" is an in-situ audio installation whereby sounds from outside the window are transferred inside the exhibition (…)

  • Diverted Objects, the installation in the Constant window, will be part of the program of the festival The time of the commons that will take place in Brussels and other European cities from 5th until 8th October 2015.
    The commons are new ways of making a society, alongside the public and (…)

  • Diverted Objects, the installation in the Constant window, will be part of the program of the festival The time of the commons that will take place in Brussels and other European cities from 5th until 8th October 2015.
    The commons are new ways of making a society, alongside the public and (…)

  • In 1934, Paul Otlet published the Treaty of documentation - The book on the book, in which he envisaged the organization of the intellectual work of documentation, and the future of books. More than 80 years later, The Treaty has entered into the public domain. Mondothèque invites developers, (…)

  • At the yearly Sophia colloquiem, Unruly Bodies. Gender \ Normen \ Verzet, Adva Zakai, Xavier Gorgol and Femke Snelting will present The MakeHuman Bugreport.
    MakeHuman is a popular open source 3D computer graphics middle-ware for the modelling of 3-Dimensional humanoid characters. Our interest (…)

  • November

  • Constant member An Mertens will participate in this round table around the idea of the commons in artistic and digital creation. This encounter is organised by ScriptaLinea, a network of writing collectifs, in the framework of the Festival des Arts Numériques. Other guests are Nicolas Pettiaux (…)

  • fiction : Catherine Lenoble / design : Open Source Publishing
    Anna K is a hybrid literary creation, inspired by the life and work of British writer Anna Kavan (1901–1968). It brings together a fiction, Anna K, to be published by HYX editions in 2016; an online creation, kavan.land, (…)

  • EU policy
    Constant is pleased to host the 3rd Big Fat Brussels Meeting. In 2013 some interested wikimedians decided to meet every year for a weekend in Brussels to constitute an EU Policy Advocacy group.
    This year they will meet to "translate" Wikimedia Foundation’s Big 5 into a EU policy (…)

  • December

  • Constant member An Mertens will give a workshop and a lecture at Consonni, a producer of contemporary art, located in Bilbao since 1997. This event is part of the programme LaPublika, a series of activities concerning the way artistic practices construct the public sphere.
    On LaPublika: We (…)

  • In Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed. He owns only a flower, which he waters every day. Three volcanoes, which he cleans every week. "It is of some use (…)

  • Libre Graphics Meeting 2016: Other Dimensions
    The eleventh annual international Libre Graphics Meeting 2016 will take place from Friday 15th until Monday 18th April 2016 in London, UK. This yearly event is an occasion for teams and individual contributors/artists involved in Libre Graphics to (…)

  • Constant member An Mertens will present a series of algoliterary works for the audience of Passaporta. Writer Diane Meur will present how she uses the internet for her work. Author Annelies Verbeke will talk about how "”and why"” she presents herself on the web. A bilingual evening with hosts (…)

  • Bookswapping & Copy-party
    In the framework of ANNA K exhibition in the Vitrine of Constant
    and to celebrate the anniversary of Anna Kavan’s death (05/12/1968),
    Catherine Lenoble invites you for a guided tour in Kavanland. A journey
    that will drive you from a physical library to a (…)

  • The Constant office will be closed from 25th December 2015 till 3rd January 2016.
    To all of you who read and follow us somewhere on this planet: *°*°**°*° O U R *°*°* B E S T *°*°* W I S H E S °*°* F O R °**°* 2 0 1 6 °°*°*°*

  • The exhibition Spreekt U Sint-Gillis? / Parlez-vous Saint-Gillois? presents the project with the same name that Constant organised between 2013 and 2015 in the framework of the neighbourhood contract Bosnie, around the Rue de Bosnie in low Saint-Gilles. The exhibition presents extra-ordinary (…)

  • Together with visual artist Clara Thomine, the writer Catherine Lenoble is invited to talk about Anna Kavan and other heroines during the first workshop of the series Just for the record.
    Just for the record investigates how gender is represented in new media and writing/publishing tools like (…)

  • Copyright is an important tool that allows to protect the creation and distribution of creative works. But Public Domain is also essential because it makes free access to these works possible. Every year on the first of January, the copyrights of thousands of works expire and these works enter (…)

  • Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is the annual event that brings together developers, contributors and users of free and open source software for graphic design, desktop publishing, 3D modeling, animation, and all manner of visual arts.
    LGM promotes discussions amongst software developers, users, (…)

  • The archive activists Michael Murtaugh, Nicolas Malevé and Ellef Prestsæter together present the installation The Scandinavian Institute of Computational Vandalism. During the opening, which will be held on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 18:00 at Constant, you will have the opportunity to (…)

  • When is an object ’common’ and what does it mean to have it ’in common’? Designing and making objects under Open Content licenses can produce, reproduce or block a myriad of possible relations. Your geopolitical situation, the resources you have available and your daily requirements change the (…)