July 2024 - June 2025

  • 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 (…)

  • September

  • 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 (…)

  • The Website fabulations workshop exploreed website modifications as a way of taking agency on already designed websites. Inspired by the notion of ’tactical design’ (cf Nolwenn Maudet), we remixed the web as a user-hacker, questioning our agency as individuals and communities on the web. (…)

  • Constant invited everybody to come celebrate the Bye Bye Binary typotheque 2.0 launch!
    Bye Bye Binary (BBB) is a French-Belgian collective created in 2018. It proposes the exploration of new typographic shapes adapted to the French language, especially the creation of new characters taking (…)

  • October

  • Constant was part of the Questioning Infrastructure panel at Fubar Festival 2024!
    At Constant we have been busy for many years finding ways to support and archive the modes of collective creation that are enabled by F/LOSS software. Splinter is a traveling server that continues this long (…)

  • On Monday 14 October a workshop took place with Arthur Lacomme from Radio Panik on mobile radio studio devices.
    The mobile studio is a light, modular device specially designed to get out of the radio studios and enable broadcasts, interviews and recordings to be made directly where things are (…)

  • Imagine a crochet workshop where patterns are seen as living algorithms, where each stitch is a step in an unfolding pattern. While computers may generate crochet patterns, it’s the human hand that brings them to life — feeling each loop, navigating each stitch, and making adjustments along the (…)

  • *WHEN Opening: Thursday 24 - 10 - 2024 17:00 -> 21:00 Presentation: 18:30 -> 20:00 Exhibition: 25 -> 27 - 10 - 2024 13:00 -> 18:00
    *WHAT Constant invited back the people behind 4 projects previously shown in the window of Constant to form a group exhibition of their afterlives. Linking (…)

  • November

  • Bye Bye Binary (BBB) is a French-Belgian collective created in 2018. It proposes the exploration of new typographic shapes adapted to the French language, especially the creation of new characters taking inclusive and post-binary language as an experimental graphic and research field.
    During (…)

  • During this ConfusingCodingSituations we shared our unfinished, stored, failed, slowly forgotten projects — those bits of code, ideas, and experiments that never reached the finish line. Instead of focusing on polished results in a world that constantly pushes for efficiency, quick solutions, (…)

  • December

  • During its 2023-2027 artistic programme, Constant publishes an annual Zine showing a subjective overview of what happened during the year. The focus of 2024 was on accessibility, and in this small but warm publication we tried to recount our experiences, reflections, discoveries and (…)

  • Finding ourselves in difficulty when sharing insights into the technical complexities that make splinter (our local server) possible, but stubbornly dedicated to the demystification of the technologies we use together, at Constant we decided to produce a comic that will totally ’splain it all. (…)

  • This year Constant focused on the critical topic of accessibility and its many intersections in the physical and virtual spaces. During the worksession A Cane, Sticky notes, Another body, a group of 30 people from different backgrounds collaborated and experimented with playful ways to ’go (…)

  • For the past 2 years, thousands of people and hundreds of associations have been mobilizing against the Brussels Digital Decree. They are calling for human contact with administrations and more physical counters to be able to access essential rights and services.
    On Monday 9 of December, (…)

  • On the 12th of December, between 14:00 and 17:00, Constant invited artists from its network to spend some time discussing together A.I., as-in, Automated impossibilities, Agnostic Inventions, Affective Infrastructures, Astringent Influxes...
    This session was dedicated to taking practical steps (…)

  • 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 2024 the feedback pool consisted of Ren Britton, Tundé Adefioye and An Vandermeulen.

  • February 2025

  • Information session on site
    Within the programme* dedicated to Otherworldly Communications, we will start the year with a focus on noticing.
    The NOH amfibian migration workgroup will give a presentation on how to help, toads, frogs and salamanders get to their breeding ponds. We will learn (…)

  • Keywords: cyberwitching, cyberspells, esoteric practices, dream as technology, reclaiming cyberspace
    We invite you to join us for a moment of collective sharing of experimental tactics using magick and hacking legacies. If witches are seen as energy benders, so can we read programmers, guided (…)

  • Elon Musk is now showing his full support for the far right, while his micro-blogging platform X (formerly Twitter) played a role in the election campaign that led to the re-election of Donald Trump in the United States. At the same time, Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta (Facebook, Instagram, (…)

  • Elon Musk is now showing his full support for the far right, while his micro-blogging platform X (formerly Twitter) played a role in the election campaign that led to the re-election of Donald Trump in the United States. At the same time, Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta (Facebook, Instagram, (…)

  • Immersion cooling is an emerging technology increasingly used in data centers. All the computers are submerged in a special oil, a supposedly more efficient cooling solution than “traditional” air conditioning and ventilation. Since oil lacks the corrosive effects of oxygen, it is in a sense a (…)

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    In this part of the Otherworldly Communications thematic year*, we go a step further with helping, counting and digitizing the species we encounter. The online (…)

  • March

  • In the context of the thematic year A cane, sticky notes, another body we looked at various perspectives on time, and invited Al Versieux to work on a weft*. This article took a snapshot of what time perspectives can look like in the context of chronic and terminal illness.
    *A weft is an (…)

  • Two days of return to ground, research of electronic legacies, recognition of mineral ancestors, dissolution of black boxes.
    The complexity of electronic devices keeps increasing, their size keeps shrinking. Through miniaturization and embedding, they saturate cities and houses, public and (…)

  • "How does the digitised world keep its promises?"
    Welcome to the gesticulated lecture by Maxime Berrin. Every 2nd Monday of the month, Constant’s partners, the non-profit organisations Neutrinet and Tactic co-organise critical reflection and action encoutners on the digital world. These (…)

  • Join us for a study day of the "Physarum polycephalum", a slime mold, or myxomycete, popularly known as the Blob, in the context of the yearly trajectory called Otherworldly communications.
    Otherworldly communications is framed by researching interspecies cohabitation and communication which, (…)

  • IN SHORT: Otherwordly communications will look at interspecies coexistence and their different arrangements of life. By life in this context we mean biological, geological, digital, immaterial, time/space or beyond.
    With a wish to find other ways of relating and engaging with technology than (…)

  • Constant had the pleasure to take part at the opening of the project Q(ee)R Codes - New Boundaries BXL 1000 by sound artist and radio maker Anna Raimondo.
    Opening & Sound Walk : Saturday 29 March 2025 at 14:00 at the Monument to the Pigeon-Soldier - Schuitenkaai 1 Quai aux Barques, 1000 (…)

  • April

  • Keywords: workshop, electronics, cooling oil, data centers, speculation, robotics.
    Artist Igor Bobbeldijk invites you to a session where we will be diving into how to build robotic creatures capable of living in a special oil used as a cooling technology —supposedly more efficient than (…)

  • Police forces around the world are now relying on algorithms to analyse their databases and predict future crimes or profile potential culprits. Belgium is no exception. In Antwerp, in the Brussels suburbs and on the Belgian coast, local police areas have launched so-called ‘predictive’ (…)

  • Constant is very happy to invite you to the launch of its yearly Zine!
    In 2024 accessibility was central to our program. This Zine gives an impression of different perspectives and reflections on accessibility that were developed during our activities.
    The Zine was compiled during a three (…)

  • Join us for a study day on waste and toxicity in the context of the yearly trajectory called Otherworldly communications.
    Otherworldly communications is framed by researching interspecies cohabitation and communication which, we hope, will tell us about modes of relating to and engaging with (…)

  • May

  • Recent years have been characterized by a strong concentration of IT platforms and an almost total monopoly on large-scale computing infrastructures. Flagship image-generation software products such as Dall-e or Adobe Firefly are a case in point. However, the hard work of communities of (…)

  • Opening installation: Thursday 15/05/2025 from 18:00 on Cilia Centric Workshop: Friday 27/06/2025 15:00 -> 18:00
    cilia:
    a tiny wiggly hair on a cell transmitting motions for animals, plants, fungi... to sense vibrations
    This installation in the window of Constant invites to you to (…)

  • Atelier in Beeld is an open studio weekend for visual artists across Flanders and Brussels. It’s the perfect opportunity for artists to open the doors to their studios, or for visitors to discover inspiring work in unique settings.
    Constant Studio a.k.a. Figs, Pears & Euphorbias will (…)

  • This session invites interested people to come together and read the EU AI Act collectively which was approved, after years of deliberation, in the summer of 2024.
    It is worth looking at the AI Act as it shapes an imagination of AI and how it can and cannot be regulated. Companies and (…)

  • Join us for a day where we will connect to Constant’s ongoing theme of Otherworldly Communications*, trying to attune to transmissions that come from elsewhere: from ancestors, from clouds, from unpayable debts.
    *Otherworldly communications researches how different forms of life co/exist and (…)

  • This year Constant focuses on how different forms of life co/exist and circulate in the midst of damage and toxicity; it is an invitation to sit in the presence of these lives, toxic but nevertheless persistent.
    During the worksession Otherwordly Communications, a group of people from (…)