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A bunch of wires next to a transparent plastic hose. They float into water or another viscous medium, soon to be connected to some strange plugs.

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Constant_V: 01L():{Liquid Larvae Robot Specimens} 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 (…)

An ASCII drawing of a frog's or toad's legs, rendered with dot patterns alone, nerdy yet mysterious.

Otherwordly Communications

Converging - following the elements ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ｀、ヽ｀ヽ No predetermined date or time because this is weather dependent ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ｀、ヽ｀ヽ In this part of the Otherworldly Communications thematic year*, (…)

Otherwordly Communications

Open Call Worksession: Otherworldly Communications 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, (…)

Cover of the map of the project Qeer Codes in pink and yellow

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Q(ee)R Codes New boundaries BXL 1000 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 (…)

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Workshop : 01L():{Liquid Larvae Robot Specimens} 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 (…)

A dense group of people is drawn in grey on a white background. Only the silhouette of each personna is visible, there are no precise details. Red rectangles highlight some of the people in the group. The outline of an urban building is also visible in the background.

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’Predictive’ police in Belgium: where do we stand? 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 (…)

A cane, sticky notes, another body

Zine launch: A Cane, Sticky-notes, Another Body 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 (…)

A photo of Marie Curie's notebook of the 1904-1906 period. We see Curie's fingerprint which at the time of their analysis in 1985, were still radioactive. Around the fingerprints, there's also notes from the researcher Pierre Pellerin who analysed the notebooks of Marie Curie. The notes indicate the fingerprints with arrows, the date of the analysis and what was found: radium-226 which is the most stable radium isotope with a half-life of 1,600 years.

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˚⊱ Waste is the space ⊰˚ study day 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 (…)

Black and white poster of the event containing the information of the encounter on a background of computer chips.

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Decentralizing AI. The case of the Stable Diffusion image generator. 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 (…)

Individual cilia grow from the basal body of a cell with assistance from distal and subdistal appendages

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Constant_V: Cilia 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, (…)

A poster of the city of Brussels where the studios participating to the open days event are highlighted by colorful drawings.

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Constant Studio @ Atelier in Beeld - Open Studio Days 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 (…)

A square zone of gray matter. 50% Red, 50% Green, 50% Blue mixing to an image of gray.

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Reading the EU AI Act together 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 (…)

film still showing landscapes where copper is extracted

Otherwordly Communications

ConfusingCodingSituations - Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims 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 (…)

Otherwordly Communications

Public presentation: Otherwordly Communications 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 (…)