April 2025 - March 2026

  • February

  • 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 (…)

  • March

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

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