September 2021 - August 2022

  • April

  • Bureaucracktic Bedtime Stories is a collection of contributions in many media that originate from the worksession Bureaucracksy.
    You can still register to the publication Bureaucracktic Bedtime Stories untill June 1.
    This is a time base estaffette naration originating from artivist practices (…)

  • June

  • A cartographic installation by the collective Technopolice will be hosted in Constant’s window.
    Opening: Wednesday June the 30th, 2021 at 18:00
    The deployment of "Smart city" (security) tools aiming at controlling, monitoring, classifying, punishing in order to orient and regulate behaviors (…)

  • September

  • It’s hard not to notice them, cameras are everywhere!
    In the streets, in the offices, in the lobbies, in the stores...
    How did this surveillance method develop until it became omnipresent? What budgets are allocated to it? With what objectives or justifications? How are they distributed in (…)

  • MARCH is a journal of art & strategy that embraces publishing as an act of protest to address the critical social and political issues of our time.
    MARCH launches their first long term inquiry, Publishing As Protocol, which aims to explore the relationship between self-organizational (…)

  • Opening: Thursday 23 September 2021 18:00 > 22:00 @ Constant
    LATOS, SLATO, OTLAS and TALOS are among the names from which a group of researchers (Ayoh Kré, Lionel Maes, Deborah Levy & Antoine Wang) operate. What they have in common is that their privileged fields of study are made up of a (…)

  • October

  • What we learn and how we learn are closely related. Now that digital learning seems to have become a new norm, it is important to be able to read and understand the digital tools that we use and allow artistic knowledge to play a role in this.
    This collaboration with KASK, School of Arts in (…)

  • November

  • With: Constant + Nubo Languages: EN / FR / NL (to be defined on site)
    In the framework of the SOTA fair arts Almanac 2022
    This session interrogates the ethics of the digital devices, the services, platforms and softwares which we use as artists, designers, organisers and people working (…)

  • Constant participated at a working visit to the Basque Country for art professionals from Flanders on November 15, 16 and 17, 2021. This visit was organised by the Etxepare Basque Institute and Kunstenpunt and it took place in the cities of San Sebastian, Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz.
    The goal (…)

  • A workshop - discussion with the artists around the installation Talking Network by LATOS showed currently in the window of Constant.
    Thursday 18 - 11 - 2021 14:00 > 17:00
    Room Calcutta @ Pianofabriek, rue du Fortstraat 35, 1060 St-Gilles | Sint-Gillis
    Limited number of places. Please book (…)

  • Is it possible for algorithms to read a poetic story in an archive of news articles on digital surveillance, updated daily by the same person for fifteen years? Can algorithms read a similar story in the texts of a database as that which is told by its creator?
    The members of the collective (…)

  • Constant was invited to participate to the project Teaching the Radical Catalogue: A syllabus. The initiators of the project Eva Weinmayr and Lucie Kolb aim at developing a syllabus for the study of cultures of searching and finding in libraries of the global North.
    Femke Snelting and Elodie (…)

  • Constant is in Transmediale’s Almanac for Refusal!
    Elodie Mugrefya was invited to contribute to the last cycle of the Almanac for Refusal, part of the now year-long Transmediale Festival. This work is a continuation of the research started within Constant_V under the title How does it matter (…)

  • A wintery collection of on-line pages. Warps invite you to navigate to and through documentation, media and notes. Wefts are thematic constellations that establish relationships between different projects in the Constant Galaxy.
    The wefts and warps introduce a specific way of writing, (…)

  • December

  • With: Agustin Ramos Anzorena, Diego Valverde, Isabel Paehr & Ren Loren Britton
    About the Workshop: Talk about a time when you consented to something and that experience of expressing consent made you really glad to have done it.
    This DIWO (Do it With Others) workshop will explore consent (…)

  • An installation of projects and performances
    Opening: 16/12 18:00 - 22:00
    Places are limited, please reserve a slot here: https://minifi.ca/unfolding Masks are madatory.
    Down Dwars Delà is a trio of words from English, Dutch and French. These aren’t translations but instead (…)

  • January 2022

  • The workshop will focus on how the poetic installation - still on show in the window of Constant - was created. We will look into the code, the database and we will propose to create new versions based on the same corpus.
    Expect a massive amount of texts on big data and surveillance, Python (…)

  • February

  • The article Study, Practice and Proximate Critique that Élodie Mugrefya and Peter Westenberg wrote for MARCH, journal of art & strategy, briefly collects some thoughts to relate the work of Constant to publishing as an act of: tool thinking, generating publicness, being together, intervening (…)

  • Nubo is a Belgian cooperative with respect for privacy. Founded by a team of free and open source representatives, the coop provides email and cloud subscriptions to empower users to break free from GAFAM’s spell and take back control of their digital lives.
    To celebrate the launch of an (…)

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  • March

  • Constant member Martino Morandi gave a guest session Platformization + Allagmatics in the context of the research project Ethics and Aesthetics of an Open Server organised by Peter Westenberg, hosted and supported by KASK school of Arts in Gent.
    The Ethics and Aesthetics research investigated (…)

  • Opening: Wednesday 09-03-2022 18:00 -> 21:00 @ Constant Encounter at the café Lagrange: Wednesday 30-03-2022 17:00 -> 19:00 @ Lagrange Points, Huidevettersstraat 114 Rue des Tanneurs, 1000 Brussels
    Computational Arabic is an ongoing work series, collected by Rita-Josy Haddoub and addressing (…)

  • A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers is a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers whose communities travel between each other to share and extend their skills through live gatherings
    In the first chapter, hosted in Varia, we will focus on tools and (…)

  • The article Collectively Setting Conditions for Re-Use details Constant’s alignements with Free Culture across time and examines the questions and necessities raised in the document Collective Conditions for (re)use (CC4r).
    "The Collective Conditions for Re-Use (CC4r) license is one of many (…)

  • We invite potential participants across disciplines to apply for contributing to the final session of our Weak Signaaal program, on the 23rd of June, under the theme of Spongy coexistence. The contribution format is open, but can for example take the form of an afternoon program, a workshop, a (…)

  • A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers is a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers whose communities travel between each other to share and extend their skills through live gatherings
    The second encounter of the series will be hosted by HYPHA, a (…)

  • May

  • This article examines Constant’s Reparative Approach to Publishing.
    In a wide array of materials and methods, from thermal printers to talking servers and “algoliterary” poetry, many forms of publications come out of Constant’s projects and networks. What they often have in common is not so (…)

  • OPENING: 06.05.2022 18:00 -> 24:00 Parcours d’Artistes Saint-Gilles: 07 & 08.05.2022 14:00 -> 19:00 Parcours d’Artistes Saint-Gilles: 14 & 15.05.2022 14:00 -> 19:00 TALK: 09.06.2022 17:00 -> 19:00
    The Æthers (by Claire Williams and Dvora Levy) is a space for the preservation and (…)

  • A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers is a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers whose communities travel between each other to share and extend their skills through live gatherings
    The second encounter of the series will be hosted by LURK at VARIA, (…)

  • We see recursive publishing, which comes with the explicit invitation to rewrite and republish, as generative work.
    And now that everyone is editing, what? is a series of meetings to rethink and share knowledge about contemporary publishing, organised by the artists in residence in the field (…)

  • A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers is a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers whose communities travel between each other to share and extend their skills through live gatherings
    The fourth encounter of the series will be hosted at esc, Graz. (…)

  • A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers is a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers whose communities travel between each other to share and extend their skills through live gatherings
    The fourth encounter of the series will be hosted at esc, Graz. (…)

  • A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers is a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers whose communities travel between each other to share and extend their skills through live gatherings
    The fourth encounter of the series will be hosted at esc, Graz. (…)

  • In Cosmic Foam Traditions no.1, the installation on display in Constant’s window until June the 26th, we hear Eve’s voice reporting on her journeys into unknown dimensions.
    For the discussion on the 14th of June, Les Aethers have invited Eve to share her shifting practice. She will plunge us (…)

  • July

  • On Friday 9th September from 10h till 17h Anaïs Berck will organise a workshop around the source code of the experiments that are on show in the window of Constant_V.
    Since places are limited, if you’re interested to attend the workshop, please send an email to: publishing@anaisberck.be. (…)

  • “We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don’t have to avert our eyes with shame, so that we can hold our heads up high and (…)

  • Every year Constant commissions another designer or design collective using Free, Libre and Open Source tools, to work on the two-monthly flyers for Constant_V.
    Between 2020 and 2021, we collaborated with Brussels based graphic designer Arshia Azmat. Arshia incrementally experimented with the (…)

  • This article examines Constant’s many literary collaborations with machinic agents.
    Working with machines as literary companions in the network of Constant also includes studying the machine, the dataset, and the process. This means that the literary quality of these works is dependent on how (…)

  • In recent years the pavements of many cities around the world have been flooded by so-called "dockless sharing vehicles". With promises of eco-friendly mobility, venture capitalist companies have occupied both the legal and physical grey zones between private and public space on the streets of (…)

  • The below open call invited for applications to the worksession Techno-Cul-de-Sac The worksession took place from 20th to the 25th November 2022 in Constant Studio in Brussels.
    We invite artists, city dwellers, activists, electronic scavengers, conflicted urbanists and reluctant designers to (…)