September 2023 - August 2024

  • January

  • Feedback pools are a series of meetings where Constant invites a group of people to review our programme of activities, reflect on the specific research topic of the ongoing year and provide feedback.
    In 2023, the feedback pool consisted of Reni Hofmüller (esc medien kunst labor), Tere Badia (…)

  • June

  • In the framework of this year theme, Techno-disobedience, Constant was pleased to support the collective Cypher Sex in their work on a Manual for Collective Digital Self-Defense Guides. This support was brought within the framework of the commission call launched at the beginning of the year (…)

  • Opening: Thursday 1 June 2023 from 17:30 on Workshop: Saturday 24 June 2023 from 11:00 to 17:00
    The Fear Healing Bowls are part of the arts of protection in Islamic tradition, practiced in different cultures across time. Through many layers such as written prayers, ornamental elements (…)

  • September

  • On September the 11th Tactic welcomed at the DK Nepthys Zwer*, a radical feminist historian and cartographer. Together with the public, she looked at what a map is and discussed the issues surrounding cartography, its power and its social and political uses. In what way can a map serve power as (…)

  • Generations after the eruption of the Volcano, three communities meet around the discovery of a mysterious mineral: the Dust. Essential source of energy, sacred healing powers, geological warning, what messages and hopes does the Dust carry? When different belief systems meet, how to find a (…)

  • October

  • We were thrilled to announce the publication of the latest catalogue for the Constant_V project. This catalogue offers a retrospective glimpse into the vitrines conceived from 2019 to 2022, showcasing the incredible work of various artists.
    If you are curious, feel free to reach out to us at (…)

  • The Weak Signaaal sessions have their documentation in the form of postcards! Thanks to the beautiful work of oddd who designed the poster made of 8 detachable postcards
    The postcards gather references from each of the 4 sessions of the Weak Signaaal series: A goose from the Marais Wiels (…)

  • A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter (now X) in 2022, more and more people and groups were looking for alternatives to the famous micro-blogging network, which had become the plaything of a billionaire with libertarian ideals and close ties to the far right. One of these alternatives is (…)

  • November

  • In the framework of the installation in the window of Constant, The Age of Dust, we organised a sharing moment in which some of the tools and strategies that were developed during its inspirational workshop were re-activated. We felt, with some sensors, sound, proximity, wetness, flame, light .. (…)

  • The window of Constant became for two months a public interface to address the ongoing struggle(s) to counter the depletion of community resources brought by Big High Tech Cloud corporations. ooooo* resized, relayed and re-transmitted hopefully + consensually, in transversal solidarity, the (…)

  • In the framework of the co-creative research project Speculative crafting for un/common futures (Specxcraft), the 4 Brussels-based organisations, Urban Species, Natagora, Centre Vidéo Bruxelles, Constant and their allies, came together to share the results of 4 internal workshops.
    These (…)

  • Constant invited its public to a moment of sharing and thinking together. We discussed practices that arose during the two collective research worksession of 2023 around Techno-disobedience
    The Brussels based artists who joined, brought back a number of ’talking pieces’ that helped us think of (…)

  • December

  • With the central position that commercial social media is gaining, Constant wanted to do a push to support federated social media and has re-activated its Mastodon account. The account is hosted on the Lurk server with the handle @constant.
    As we are an organisation that engages a lot with (…)

  • Splinter is a small server that travels and allows local and remote access to a set of documentation tools that Constant uses in different contexts. To achieve this modular way of working we connected splinter to circulations, which is a server hosted within the constant Galaxy of virtual (…)

  • For all the duration of the installation "Reflecting in the Debris of High Tech" in the window of Constant, video’s and other streams were shared via the systerserver peertube instance ( https://tube.systerserver.net ), a techno-feminist queer collective video-praxis platform!
    ALGO-RHYTHM, (…)

  • In 2023 Constant started a new series of yearly publications connected to the new artistic programme covering the next five years.
    We looked at ways of making a publication using experimental tools as part of a research into a system for documenting Constant’s activities. We asked graphic (…)

  • Moved by the intensification of the violence brought on Palestinian people by the state of Israel, and by the many mobilizations happening around us, Constant reflected on different modes to engage with the current situation that could make our solidarity practical.
    We started from our own (…)

  • For several months now, the asbl Tactic has been supporting higher education establishments in their transition to free and ethical tools for their digital infrastructure. To coincide with the publication of the next issue of the magazine Curseurs on the theme of ’education and digital (…)

  • For the next five years of its program, Constant is asking: What could/should Speculative, Libre and Intersectional Technologies (SPLINT) do?
    To start finding the language and open up our thinking around these questions a deck of cards, the SPLINT cards, were created by Constant and allies. (…)

  • Karaopo is a strategy for diverting our favorite, sometimes problematic songs. It makes us think of songs we can afford to sing at the top of our lungs, at parties, with friends, in the street, at demonstrations. Singing in the Debris of High Tech was a collective workshop in which we chose a (…)

  • February 2024

  • Constant had the pleasure to announce that the second number of the Curseurs magazine was out in paper format!
    This number was dedicated to the increasing pressure of computational infrastructures and methods on education, and to the possible ’F/LOSS’ paths to divert from the forced (…)

  • In 2024 Constant started a series of informal encounters with no precise plan yet, except to be a meeting point on these questions: the different proposals of a so-called "smart city", and the reasons and ways to oppose them; the proliferation of networked objects in the streets and (…)

  • Constant had the pleasure to announce that the second number of the Curseurs magazine was out in paper format!
    This number was dedicated to the increasing pressure of computational infrastructures and methods on education, and to the possible ’F/LOSS’ paths to divert from the forced (…)

  • Constant joined its friends and comrades from the Translocal Pipas Club for a panel at the 2024 edition of Transmediale Festival in Berlin.
    This public conversation wanted to bring together a network of networks that had been organising collectively towards joyful, systemic techno-political (…)

  • From the first feminist forums to #MeToo, the web has become a place where women can express themselves and meet others. The same is true for people of colour and LGBTQIA+ people. Yet all too often, the web remains a place where minorities are discriminated against and subjected to violence, as (…)

  • Declarations is an ongoing artistic research into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard. Declarations is a love letter to the crafts of designing with language. The project is initiated by Doriane Timmermans.
    This was a call for participation at a worksession who took place in (…)

  • To start the year, Constant celebrated the publication of the manual How to Cypher Sex: A Manual for Collective Digital Self-Defense Guides. Constant supported the collective Cypher Sex* in the making of this "how to" manual that lays out strategies on how to write locally-oriented digital (…)

  • Constant opens up a new portal to gather and think, write, make, break, bake and form thoughts together on what a "coding club" might be. As challenging as it is to create a space that welcomes and fosters awkardness, confusions and misfits around coding, we want to weave a thread that might (…)

  • March

  • Constant took part in the writing of a bugreport on Frontier Climate on the initiative of TITiPI.
    This bugreport was a collective action against Frontier Climate.
    Frontier Climate is a consortium of Big Tech companies which was established to manage advanced market commitments (AMC) for (…)

  • On Monday 11 March 2024, we discovered together the Digital Code, a self-proclaimed code of law written and staged by the Comité humain du numérique.
    The Comité humain du numérique is a group of citizens campaigning for a digital world that adapts to people and not the other way round. For the (…)

  • This year’s theme focused on the critical topic of accessibility and its many intersections in the physical and virtual spaces. For the first worksession, Constant gathered with two of its partner organisations, Kaaitheater and Museum Dr. Guislain, to examine the different crossings and (…)

  • This workshop consisted of speculating and creating prototypes for on and off buttons, customized for your body. What kind of button would your brain, neurodiverse or otherwise, like to have made? What gesture does your hand/other body part want to do to activate something (technologically)? (…)

  • April

  • Opening: Friday 12-04-2024 18:00 -> 00:00
    This installation participated at the open doors weekends of Parcours d’Artistes Saint-Gilles 2024
    Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project that looks into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-language. The project is initiated by (…)

  • Opening: Friday 12-04-2024 18:00 -> 00:00
    This installation participated at the open doors weekends of Parcours d’Artistes Saint-Gilles 2024
    Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project that looks into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-language. The project is initiated by (…)

  • Opening: Friday 12-04-2024 18:00 -> 00:00
    This installation participated at the open doors weekends of Parcours d’Artistes Saint-Gilles 2024
    Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project that looks into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-language. The project is initiated by (…)

  • In the framework of this year theme, A cane, sticky notes, another body, Constant was pleased to support artist and machine learning engineer, Ahnjili ZhuParris.
    Screen-to-Soundscape (STS) is a speculative prototype that mimics traditional screen readers by transforming a browser into (…)

  • May

  • Our studio was open to the public during the Open Studio Days!
    Revisit Reuse (developed by Femke Snelting and Eva Weinmayr, designed with Flo*Souad Benaddis) was a space full of questions and provocations about Free Culture and Open Access. It questioned how to deal with cultural (…)

  • Our colleague Michael Murtaugh participated at the Libre Graphics Meeting that took place in Rennes, France, from 9 to 11 May 2024.
    As a teacher of a media design course in an art school (Experimental Publishing, or XPUB in Rotterdam), he teaches and uses with students a mix of free software (…)

  • Since 1999, in the majority of Flemish municipalities and throughout the Brussels-Capital Region, voters have had to use a voting computer in the polling booth. Despite the cost, the lack of transparency, the bugs and incidents at each election... they voted twice again in 2024 with this system. (…)

  • We are delighted to invite you to the book launch of specXcraft’s collective publication (EN/FR): Speculative crafting for un/common futures in Brussels | Fabriquer collectivement d’im/possibles futurs pour Bruxelles
    This is a polyphonic account in words and images of the work that four (…)

  • This workshop consisted of further speculating and creating more prototypes for on and off buttons, customized for your body and connecting them to electronic devices. What kind of button would your brain, neurodiverse or otherwise, like to have made? What gesture does your hand/other body part (…)

  • An Open Door Day to come and discover Nubo, get help setting up your smartphone, laptop or tablet and think about digital sustainability!
    Nubo is a Belgian cooperative offering online services that respect your privacy. Nubo’s services are open to everyone, whatever you want to use them for. (…)

  • A clandestine cinema in the middle of an empty terrain, the mobile radio system in a demonstration, a market stand to digitise and exchange books, or a sound-system in the middle of a pedestrian area... Many of the activities that take place to re-appropriate the city and to deviate public (…)

  • The students of the first year of the XPUB master course of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam shared their Counter-Tourist Information Center a.k.a Special Issue 24.
    The issue was the outcome of the trimester "ON LOITERING and other forms of in-situ computation", guest edited by our (…)

  • July

  • This was an open call to participate to the worksession that took place in Museum Dr. Guislain in December 2024. INDEX ▩ INTRODUCTION ✦ WORKSESSION ▇ WHAT ARE WE DOING THIS SESSION? ▲ WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT ◪ WHY MUSEUM DR. GUISLAIN ⫸ PRACTICAL INFO Ⓐ ACCESSIBILITY ◉ HOW TO REACT TO THIS CALL (…)

  • During this ConfusingCodingSituation, we delved into the final chapters of Antony Loewenstein’s "The Palestine Laboratory", focusing on Mass Surveillance and Social Media. Loewenstein examines how Israel has leveraged its ’expertise’ from testing on the Palestinian population to become a global (…)

  • For the second artistic commission in 2024, Constant was happy to invite graphic designer Loraine Furter.
    The idea was to develop further her interest in feminist, intersectional and accessible design taking Constant’s website as a study case and doing so, helping us developing a new website (…)