August 2013 - July 2014

  • August

  • The first encounter in the series of Splinterfields is organised by nadine, an artistic organisation that moves within constantly changing artistic practices through continuous questioning of itself. nadine encourages alternative research formats for artists and collectives to work with. (…)

  • The design caravan Open Source Publishing invites you for a design education experiment this summer "” from 26 until 30 August 2013
    By and large, graphic design students bring a laptop to school, and create their work using digital software tools. This hard- and software represents a (…)

  • September

  • Constant Variable celebrates her second anniversary !
    Therefore we’re happy to invite you to celebrate this together on Thursday 5th September, during this special edition of the Variable Loop !, our monthly dates for ultrashort presentations and exchanges with the artists who made them in the (…)

  • The second encounter in the series of Splinterfields is organised by FoAM, a cultural laboratory reimagining possible futures at the interstices of art, science, nature and everyday life. FoAM is a dynamic entity that can change shape and scale as required. We can be a transdisciplinary (…)

  • Tot later is a novel by Constant member An Mertens.
    Version 2.0 will be launched in a festive way at Ateliers Mommen on Saturday 14th September. This edition is the commercial follow-up of the author’s cut CIAO/Tot Later 1.0 published by Constant.
    You’re very welcome to join the party!

  • Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software. This event is organised by the Brussels Hackerspaces (UrLab & Hsbxl). Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will facilitate a conversation about free/libre. She will also present a version of an existing open (…)

  • A day of creativity and entertainment with DIY workshops, exhibition, DIY cinema, kidzone..
    Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will show an interactive installation, with open hardware & conductive textile fabricated by master knitter Claire Williams.

  • I Share Therefore I am is an exhibition organised by esc medien kunst labor in the context of Steirischer Herbst, examining how digital technologies impact interpersonal relationships and communication. Femke contributes with a performative lecture on Free Software for distributed work, looking (…)

  • The Death of the Authors, 1941 edition will be part of the virtual gallery in the exhibition "Les littératures numériques d’hier à demain", organised by the Electronic Literature Organisation in the framework of their event ’Locating the text’ in Paris.

  • Monthly workshop focusing on Blender + Python. We have been quite chaotic the last months due to too much work and a too nice summer. But we’re back and start this academic year with a workshop programmed on the 27th of September.
    The main purpose of these workshops is to manipulate Blender (…)

  • As a new season begins, we’ll restart on a good basis. For the newcomers or the veterans, some small exercises on the basis of Pure-data are never lost, and the opportunity to (re)discover the subtleties of the pd language, it’s openness and versatility.
    Come over with your questions, (…)

  • October

  • A workshop mixing textile design with digital culture and tools (Floss in soft-and hardware). We will use a hacked knitting machine (Knitic). When you connect the machine with a computer, it turns into a kind of textile printer. At the same time our knitted surfaces will have conductive (…)

  • The studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors every first thursday of the month for ’LOOP’, an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-space.
    VARIABLE is a ’Free Libre Open Source Software (F/LOSS) Arts Lab’. There are collective workspaces (…)

  • The third encounter in the Splinterfields series is organised by OKNo. In 2013 OKNO launched ALOTOF (A Laboratory On The Open Fields), an international long-term experiment exploring the potential of open-air modes of creation. Within the scope of ALOTOF, OKNO has invited media artist Shu (…)

  • What? Command-Line? Yes. Exactly. That thing with the computer where you see characters flying by just like when Neo found out about the Matrix. It seems cryptic and magic, doesn’t it? People doing this can only do illegal things for sure. Not.
    The console, where all those commands happened to (…)

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    10:00 -> 17:00 Workshop: "Compositing in Blender" in Libre Video Lab.
    A workshop in Compositing in Blender. Hosted by David Collignon and Vincent Gires.
    (Vincent G. on BBUG: "I will start with a quick overview of the interface: create nodes, dots, frames and (…)

  • Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) is often referred to as the world’s first computer programmer. Initiated five years ago, the Ada Lovelace Day is about sharing stories and raising the achievements of women in STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Every year people organise their own events (…)

  • Michael Murtaugh and Nicolas Malevé will contribute to the seminar Document, fiction et droit, organised by ArBa-EsA and the University of Aix-Marseille. Their presentation will focus on the relationship between algorithms and legal code in their work on the Kurenniemi archive.

  • November

  • Constant members Michael Murtaugh and Nicolas Malevé present a second iteration of the Data Radio in the framework of the Kurenniemi’s retrpospective in Kiasma. The project is a webradio that broadcasts Kurenniemi’s audio archive. Live stream is made of audio files from the archive, audio tracks (…)

  • Long before the slogan ’Information wants to be Free’ was coined, the founder of the modern library Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) had a dream. He believed in ’Free Libraries for Every Soul’.
    Hacker/cyber-librarian Marcell Mars, researcher Edwin Gardner and the association for arts and media (…)

  • This walk explores the neighbourhood Bosnie in Saint-Gilles.We will be looking for hybrid, trans-lingual and intriguing words that will put us on the trace of international connections in the neighbourhood.
    Globalism from below, ties with family abroad, historical local cultures .. there are (…)

  • The studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors every first Thursday of the month for ’LOOP’, an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-space.
    VARIABLE is a ’Free Libre Open Source Software (F/LOSS) Arts Lab’. There are collective workspaces (…)

  • Flossie 2013 brings together FLOSS women developers, entrepreneurs, researchers and policy-makers, digital artists and social innovators for an exciting mix of talks, spontaneous discussions and open workshops. Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will give a workshop on Open Hardware (…)

  • The project La Langue Schaerbeekoise is included in the exhibition and performance project Dissident Desire #2: Terrain of Threshold Voices in District in Berlin.
    The exhibition and performance project Terrain of Threshold Voices is dedicated to forms of artistic research on language in (…)

  • Femke hosts a table on Free Culture Tools as part of the Free Culture Brunch Club at FREE?!, a one-day journey into the culture of sharing.
    If Free Culture is the use, sharing and reuse of digital artefacts in the context of the Internet, than Free Culture Tools should find themselves (…)

  • December

  • Constant member Peter Westenberg and collaegue Clémentine Delahaut are invited to give a lecture about the project of La Langue Schaerbeekoise/De Schaarbeekse Taal for the students Master in the Social Work of the University of Gent, in the framework of the class ’Culture Studies’.

  • The studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors every first thursday of the month for ’LOOP’, an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-space.
    VARIABLE is a ’Free Libre Open Source Software (F/LOSS) Arts Lab’. There are collective workspaces (…)

  • Verbindingen/Jonctions 14

  • Radio Bosnia is a monthly radio broadcast with a choice of hybrid, translinguist, invented, unreal, neologist words recorded in the borough Bosnie in the neighborhood Saint-Gilles in Brussels.
    On the menu: the words of the month, portraits of people and places in the neighborhood.
    Radio (…)

  • January 2014

  • Make your own music using a computer! As the workshop will be in French, the rest of this article is also in French. Thanks for your comprehension. Vous êtes fan de techno, de rap où de musique de films ? L’atelier Open Sound Lab propose de réaliser vous-même vos propres productions grâce aux (…)

  • Blender bpy/bge: Introduction to shaders 10:00 -> 18:00

  • Feel like sculpting in 3D using Blender?
    The workshop consists of a one day course with exercises and treats frequently asked questions.
    Participants are invited to propose ideas for one day projects and long term research.
    Participation is open for debutants and experts.
    Language: (…)

  • Radio Bosnia is a monthly radio broadcast with a choice of hybrid, translinguist, invented, unreal, neologist words recorded in the borough Bosnie in the neighborhood Saint-Gilles in Brussels.
    On the menu: the words of the month, portraits of people and places in the neighborhood.
    Radio (…)

  • Internet is becoming more and more densely populated with services that monitor data traffic, networks and users. Cloud computing services claim a good, safe and transparent use of your data, but these very data are stored in unknown places and ’served’ back to you wherever and whenever you (…)

  • Constant member Peter Westenberg contributes with a lecture and a workshop to the event Dispositifs Post-, which is organised by Idensitat, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Recreant Cruïlles, Sala d’Art Jove and Hangar in Barcelona.
    24-25.01.2014 | SEMINAR Place: Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Aragó 255, (…)

  • Each year, as of January 1, thousands of works enter into the public domain, 70 years after the death of their authors. The period of protection by copyright expires, and the works become a public treasure that everyone can appreciate and use freely.
    This year, on 25th January, we will (…)

  • February

  • The work by Constant, The Death of the Authors/edition 1941, is on show in the virtual gallery of Jeu de Paume during the exhibition ’PRINT ERROR/ PUBLISHING IN THE DIGITAL AGE’ curated by Alessandro Ludovico, artist, new media theorist and chief editor of the magazine Neural.
    This online (…)

  • Jaron Rowan from Conservas/FcForum will do a short presentation of a booklet aimed at analyzing and understanding the economic models that sustain free cultural practices to later suggest a set of policiy reccomendations aimed at helping this emerging sector to develope. After an initial phase (…)

  • The studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors every first thursday of the month for ’LOOP’, an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-space. This Thursday there will be a.o. presentations by the artists in residency Maria Karagianni & (…)

  • Blender + Python : Introduction to python in Blender.
    Co-organized by François Zajéga, Julien Deswaef and David Collignon.

  • Brendan Howell, artist in residence from Berlin, will share his findings
    from a series of "Screenless Offiice" experiments. His intent is to
    produce an artistic operating system that does not require any raster
    based displays.
    During his residency, Brendan will work on several modules for a (…)

  • March

  • The studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors every first thursday of the month for ’LOOP’, an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-spaces.
    VARIABLE is a ’Free Libre Open Source Software (F/LOSS) Arts Lab’. There are collective (…)

  • The title of this Blender BPY/BGE workshop is a parody of the "Facebook lookback". The idea is to work on a series of scripts to automate the creation of movies based on images and videos taken from a folder. Ideally, by changing the content of the folder and re-running the scripts, you’d obtain (…)

  • This is a workshop on Blender. David Colignon guides participants through exercises. Together the group will address some Frequently Asked Questions surrounding Blender, such as:
    Does open source software stand a chance against their proprietary equivalent ? Is it possible to do a full open (…)

  • Laurence Claes, Aurea Harvey en Femke Snelting nemen deel aan een avond georganiseerd door de feministische organisatie L-Salon:
    "L-Salon installeert op 15 maart iSalon, een vrouwvriendelijke playground waar we met 0 en 1 aan de slag gaan. Drie female geeks geven hun invulling aan informatie- (…)

  • Radio Bosnie is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On the menu: hybrid word of the month, portraits of extra-ordinairy people and places.
    Every thursday 11:00 on Radio Alma 101.9FM (Bxl) and on stream: www.radioalma.be
    Every fourth (…)

  • April

  • LGM2014: 2-5 April in Leipzig, Germany
    Four days of hacking, workshops, meetings, talks and presentations on Libre Graphics software and creative use. Join us in Leipzig to meet developers, designers, artists and discover new tools and experiments! Activities contributed by Constant members: (…)

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    Relearn is a summerschool with as many teachers as it has participants. It is about sharing and trying Free Culture practices, and is entirely done with Free, Libre and Open Source software. Relearn takes place in Variable, a collectively run F/LOSS Arts Lab in Brussels. (…)

  • Quentin Geluyckens will explain the ’do and don’ts’ of 3D printing using Blender, a.o. mesh cleaning (using the solifidy modifier, checking for non-manifold mesh, size, edge sharpness and overhang of your model). We’ll also look at the few parametric modeling options available in Blender. (…)

  • Radio Bosnie is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On the menu: hybrid word of the month, portraits of extra-ordinairy people and places.
    Every thursday 11:00 on Radio Alma 101.9FM (Bxl) and on stream: www.radioalma.be
    Every fourth (…)

  • Recyclart opens its doors for a series of ultrashort presentations on the experimental artwork created in the F/LOSS Arts Studio of Variable in Schaarbeek. An opportunity to meet the artists, designers, their work and their technologies.
    On the program: Claire Williams & Wendy Van (…)

  • May

  • In the Dutch speaking library of Saint-Gilles you can listen to a selection of words that were recorded in the neighborhood in the framework of the project Parlez-Vous Saint-Gillois ?
    With headphones you can listen to the stories of people who live in the neighborhood and the explenations of (…)

  • The studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors for an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-spaces. This Thursday there will be presentations by a.o. the actual residents of Variable: Marcell Mars, Sebastian Luetgert and Jan Gerber. (…)

  • Workshop - Blender Game Engine
    We’ll look at what is possible or not in the blender game engine and
    show a quick overview of both ways of working with it : with python
    scripting or with the logic block editor.
    Expect some awful projects and really silly game prototypes...
    Due to limited (…)

  • Radio Bosnia is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On the menu this time: hybrid word of the month and a portrait of the free market at Place Bethlehem.
    Every thursday 11:00 on Radio Alma 101.9FM (Bxl) and on stream: www.radioalma.be (…)

  • In May, Constant hosts Marcell Mars, Sebastian Luetgert and Jan Gerber in Constant Variable. They are in Brussels to work on tools and infrastructures that facilitate free access to (digital) books.
    The Public Library is one of those vital institutions that we start to notice only once they go (…)

  • In 2013, Belgium universalist, pacifist and feminist Paul Otlet was recognized as ’a founding father of the Internet’. Simultaneously, Google adopted the remains of Otlet’s archive at the Mundaneum in Mons, not only home town of prime minister Elio Di Rupo but also conveniently located next to (…)

  • What is the biography of your server/service? What gender is your server/service? How does s/he deal with the law and how does the law deal with her/him? How do you take care of your server/service and how does s/he take care of you? Femke presents the Feminist Server Summit during the meeting (…)

  • June

  • This Thursday the studiobuilding VARIABLE opens its doors for the last LOOP! A Loop is an informal moment for everyone who would like to meet the artists, taste the work, see the studio-spaces.
    VARIABLE is a ’Free Libre Open Source Software (F/LOSS) Arts Lab’ till next month (the closing party (…)

  • Belgian Homeless Cup is a sports tournement for homeless people and asylum seekers. During this year’s edition, an all female football team will design new figurines on a kicker table. Homeless, non-idealised, non standard, women, men, trans, queer. By playing together, by producing new models (…)

  • Variable, the Free Libre Open Source Software Arts Lab in Schaerbeek, presents an exhibition in the foyer of De Kriekelaar from 12th June till 12th July. This exhibition is the closure of an adventure that started in 2011. A selection of projects developed in the house will be available to the (…)

  • Radio Bosnia is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On the menu: hybrid words of the month and a portrait of a person or a place in the neighbourhood.
    Every Thursday 11:00 on Radio Alma 101.9FM (Bxl) and on stream: www.radioalma.be (…)

  • July

  • This workshop explores how we parse gender and gender representation when others are divorced from our bodies. The two hour workshop is structured around a kind of Turing test, in this case called the Strategies game. Groups take on the role of either the agent trying to ascertain gender, or the (…)

  • Radio Algolit is a performance presented by Nicolas Bourbaki. On the menu: creations with code and literature written, read and pronounced by humans and scripts working in intimate collaboration with other digital tools and platforms. The performance will be recorded and rebroadcasted though an (…)

  • (inscription closed)
    Relearn is a summerschool with as many teachers as it has participants. It is about sharing and trying Free Culture practices, and is entirely done with Free, Libre and Open Source software. Relearn takes place in Variable, a collectively run F/LOSS Arts Lab in Brussels. (…)

  • After three intense and beautiful years the F/LOSS Art Studio Variable will move out of the residence of VGC in Schaerbeek. To celebrate one last time we warmly invite you to join us for the Final Finissage!
    On the program are:
    * the finissage of the Free Libre Open Source Software Art (…)

  • Radio Bosnia is a radio broadcast made with words recorded in the neighborhood Bosnie in Sint-Gilles, Brussels. On the menu: hybrid words of the month and a conversation with special guest Anna Raimondo. Anna is an artist who is working in the neighborhood on her project "Play Babel".
    Every (…)