June 2015 - May 2016

  • May

  • "I think that conversations are the best, biggest thing that free software has to offer its user"

  • Exhibition opening : Saturday, 16.5.2015, 17.30

    Special opening hours :
    Fr, 15.5.2015, 18.00 – 23.00
    Sa, 16.5.2015, 11.00 – 19.00
    Su, 17.5.2015, 11.00 – 17.00
    Öffnungszeiten 19.5 – 26.6. :
    Tuesday – Friday, 14.00 – 19.00 and on appointment

  • June

  • Participants in Promiscuous Pipelines can be artists and/or thinkers and/or developers interested in rethinking tool-sets, methods or systems. You are invited to bring existing or imagined projects that care about connections between social, technical and physical worlds.
    There are 5 places (…)

  • (Presentation in the context of the Public Library Festival)
    "Humanity is at a turning point in its history. The mass of available information is formidable. New instruments are necessary for simplifying and condensing it, or the intellect will never know how to overcome the difficulties which (…)

  • As part of the residency of artists Billy Bultheel & Enad Marouf in Brussels, Constant will be co-organising a close-reading session of Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing on 5, 6, 7th June 2015. The idea is to create a space for presentation, exchange, discussion on new ways of reading (…)

  • On the upcoming Supervlieg / Supermouche festival, Jérémie Boyard and Colin Ponthot will set up their Bumperbreak soundsystem vehicle to remix words from the database of Parlez-Vous Saint-Gillois ?
    http://parlezvous1060.be/w/
    http://bumperbreak.com/
    http://www.supervliegsupermouche.be/fr/ (…)

  • The children of the class of Frédérique Robert van de Ecole des 4 Saisons invite you to a broadcast in which they give you their vision on Brussels in 2050.

  • How could we address the impact of contemporary digital technologies on security and surveillance mechanisms and its influence on posthuman subject-formation?
    Femke contributes to the fourth gathering in the Posthuman Glossary series with a walk through Constants’ work with, on and around (…)

  • During a short performative workshop we’ll build an Urban Hacker Bench in front of Constant. The bench will serve nicely during the summertime, as a non-profit spot to chat, hang out, observe passers by, cast a critical look on the work on show in Constant V, or just enjoy the sunshine ..
    This (…)

  • Constant is invited to participate in the project Being Urban, organised by Adrien Grimmeau and Pauline de La Boulaye in ISELP.
    The objective of BEING URBAN is to reflect on the place of artistic interventions in public space that move away from landmarks to less visible and immaterial (…)

  • July

  • Exhibition Î ­view
    Opening 2 july – 18:00
    A noisy street in Sint-Gilles. A shopping window in which a monitor and speakers show and play what happens further on in the street. A film without scenario in which the protagonists are the passers by, the cars, birds, the market salesmen. The (…)

  • August

  • Constant members Michael Murtaugh and An Mertens will give a workshop on text, code and text-to-speech in the framework of the Hackers and Designers Summercamp organised in De Punt in Amsterdam.
    More about the workshop: Picture this: In 2084, after the decay of Google and the deprecation of (…)

  • A third edition of the collectively organised summer school Relearn is in the making. You are welcome to join from 20-25 August in Zinneke (Brussels). Sign up for the mailinglist to follow updates on the program, and how to participate: https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/relearn

  • Promiscuous Pipelines was a worksession about modularity in software processes that took place from 31 August to 5 September 2015 in FoAM in Brussels.
    ’Universalism is not rejected but particularized; what is needed is a new kind of articulation between the universal and the particular’ (…)

  • September

  • At this special edition of the FoAM apéro you can discover some of the processes that we have been running at Promiscuous Pipelines, a worksession trying to re-imagine modularity, knowing that software processes are inherently leaky and contextual. The apéro is a regular social get-together of (…)

  • Constant member An Mertens will take part in this evening programme of Coded Matter(s) in De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, with a presentation of her research on ’Algorithmic storytellers’. Other presenters are: rybn, Sjef Van Gaalen, Michelle Kasprzak.
    More about Algorithmic Wildlife:
    As (…)

  • "Diverted Objects" is a one-day workshop developed by the collective LibreObjet around the "fork" applied to objects. The ’fork’ means an object having a common root with a second one. Initially twins, these two objects will separate and follow their own developments. Starting with a (…)

  • Interactivos? ’15 is a collaborative prototyping workshop that will take place from 2 to 16 December 2015 in Madrid. Through this open call Interactivos? ’15 will select 8 projects to be developed.
    Interactivos? is a long term running concept: during two weeks you get inspirational & (…)

  • «Diverted Objects» is an installation developed by the collective LibreObjet around the "fork" applied to objects. The "fork" means an object having a common root with a second one. Initially twins, these two objects will separate and follow their own developments. The results of a one-day (…)

  • "The Death of the Authors - 1943, a botopera’ will be performed again in Wiels on Friday 11th September as the opening act of the Brussels Poetry Fest. The installation will be on show in Wiels untill Sunday 13th September.
    With : BotsWaller, NICKola tesla, Beatrix Botter, Rachmanibot & (…)

  • Femke represents Mondothèque at the Mundaneum Edition of the Otlet Salons, a "network event that aims to foster new cooperation across the borders of disciplines, institutions and society." With Pieter Colpaert (Keynote: How data want to be reused), Marc Vael (ISACA, UAMS and Solvay), Jan Van (…)

  • October

  • "Once one read; today one refers to, checks through, skims." - Paul Otlet, 1903
    Mondotheque contributes to Ideographies of knowledge, an event that brings together a number of digital librarians, media theorists, designers, researchers and artists to discuss novel ways of reading and writing (…)

  • During his residency at Constant Studio in WTC25, the audiovisual artist Stéfan Piat worked on an upgrade of both software and hardware for his project "Rear window".
    "Rear window" is an in-situ audio installation whereby sounds from outside the window are transferred inside the exhibition (…)

  • Diverted Objects, the installation in the Constant window, will be part of the program of the festival The time of the commons that will take place in Brussels and other European cities from 5th until 8th October 2015.
    The commons are new ways of making a society, alongside the public and (…)

  • Diverted Objects, the installation in the Constant window, will be part of the program of the festival The time of the commons that will take place in Brussels and other European cities from 5th until 8th October 2015.
    The commons are new ways of making a society, alongside the public and (…)

  • In 1934, Paul Otlet published the Treaty of documentation - The book on the book, in which he envisaged the organization of the intellectual work of documentation, and the future of books. More than 80 years later, The Treaty has entered into the public domain. Mondothèque invites developers, (…)

  • At the yearly Sophia colloquiem, Unruly Bodies. Gender \ Normen \ Verzet, Adva Zakai, Xavier Gorgol and Femke Snelting will present The MakeHuman Bugreport.
    MakeHuman is a popular open source 3D computer graphics middle-ware for the modelling of 3-Dimensional humanoid characters. Our interest (…)

  • November

  • Constant member An Mertens will participate in this round table around the idea of the commons in artistic and digital creation. This encounter is organised by ScriptaLinea, a network of writing collectifs, in the framework of the Festival des Arts Numériques. Other guests are Nicolas Pettiaux (…)

  • fiction : Catherine Lenoble / design : Open Source Publishing
    Anna K is a hybrid literary creation, inspired by the life and work of British writer Anna Kavan (1901–1968). It brings together a fiction, Anna K, to be published by HYX editions in 2016; an online creation, kavan.land, (…)

  • EU policy
    Constant is pleased to host the 3rd Big Fat Brussels Meeting. In 2013 some interested wikimedians decided to meet every year for a weekend in Brussels to constitute an EU Policy Advocacy group.
    This year they will meet to "translate" Wikimedia Foundation’s Big 5 into a EU policy (…)

  • December

  • Constant member An Mertens will give a workshop and a lecture at Consonni, a producer of contemporary art, located in Bilbao since 1997. This event is part of the programme LaPublika, a series of activities concerning the way artistic practices construct the public sphere.
    On LaPublika: We (…)

  • In Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed. He owns only a flower, which he waters every day. Three volcanoes, which he cleans every week. "It is of some use (…)

  • Libre Graphics Meeting 2016: Other Dimensions
    The eleventh annual international Libre Graphics Meeting 2016 will take place from Friday 15th until Monday 18th April 2016 in London, UK. This yearly event is an occasion for teams and individual contributors/artists involved in Libre Graphics to (…)

  • Constant member An Mertens will present a series of algoliterary works for the audience of Passaporta. Writer Diane Meur will present how she uses the internet for her work. Author Annelies Verbeke will talk about how "”and why"” she presents herself on the web. A bilingual evening with hosts (…)

  • Bookswapping & Copy-party
    In the framework of ANNA K exhibition in the Vitrine of Constant
    and to celebrate the anniversary of Anna Kavan’s death (05/12/1968),
    Catherine Lenoble invites you for a guided tour in Kavanland. A journey
    that will drive you from a physical library to a (…)

  • The Constant office will be closed from 25th December 2015 till 3rd January 2016.
    To all of you who read and follow us somewhere on this planet: *°*°**°*° O U R *°*°* B E S T *°*°* W I S H E S °*°* F O R °**°* 2 0 1 6 °°*°*°*

  • January 2016

  • The exhibition Spreekt U Sint-Gillis? / Parlez-vous Saint-Gillois? presents the project with the same name that Constant organised between 2013 and 2015 in the framework of the neighbourhood contract Bosnie, around the Rue de Bosnie in low Saint-Gilles. The exhibition presents extra-ordinary (…)

  • Together with visual artist Clara Thomine, the writer Catherine Lenoble is invited to talk about Anna Kavan and other heroines during the first workshop of the series Just for the record.
    Just for the record investigates how gender is represented in new media and writing/publishing tools like (…)

  • Copyright is an important tool that allows to protect the creation and distribution of creative works. But Public Domain is also essential because it makes free access to these works possible. Every year on the first of January, the copyrights of thousands of works expire and these works enter (…)

  • Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is the annual event that brings together developers, contributors and users of free and open source software for graphic design, desktop publishing, 3D modeling, animation, and all manner of visual arts.
    LGM promotes discussions amongst software developers, users, (…)

  • The archive activists Michael Murtaugh, Nicolas Malevé and Ellef Prestsæter together present the installation The Scandinavian Institute of Computational Vandalism. During the opening, which will be held on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 18:00 at Constant, you will have the opportunity to (…)

  • February

  • When is an object ’common’ and what does it mean to have it ’in common’? Designing and making objects under Open Content licenses can produce, reproduce or block a myriad of possible relations. Your geopolitical situation, the resources you have available and your daily requirements change the (…)

  • Constant members Michael Murtaugh and Nicolas Malevé share their archive activism experiences during the panel discussion at Transmediale, Berlin. ’Archive, Curate, Educate: Active Media Arts’ will be moderated by Jussi Parikka and host also Anne-Marie Duguet, Oliver Grau and Joasia Krysa. The (…)

  • A discussion introduced by software cases like Pattern for Python, Faircoin Wallet, MakeHuman, The Unicode Standards.
    With: Kym Ward, Aymeric Mansoux, Jara Rocha, Roel Roscam Abbing, Femke Snelting, Dick Reckard.
    Due to the importance and ubiquity of software in our lives, it is urgent to (…)

  • The Struggle over the Future of ’Pirate’ Libraries and Universal Access to Knowledge
    A discussion with Balázs Bodó, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak and Femke Snelting
    Elsevier, the largest academic publisher in the world, whose 37% profit margin benefits from the public funding of science and (…)

  • Algolit is a project of Constant, a workgroup around i-littérature, free code and text.
    On Tuesday 23rd February 2016 (10-18h) Gijs De Heij will lead a hands-on workshop on building libraries of ’wordclips’, or rather, dictionaries based on fragments of movies. We’ll rewrap textual content (…)

  • Just For The Record is a project addressing how gender is represented in new media and writing/publishing tools like Wikipedia, and what influence this has on the way history is recorded.
    Just For The Record organizes its second event, Gender Redirect, a day bringing attention to gender (…)

  • March

  • Possible bodies is the workingtitle for a collaborative work on ways 3D-software conditions imaginations of gender. Looking at the practice of 3D-modelling, scanning and printing, we are concerned with the specific entanglements of technology, representation and normativity that appear through (…)

  • In collaboration with Medialab Prado Constant organises the worksession ’Objects in Common’ as the final event in a series that started in 2015 with ’Funcionamientos: Objects in Common and Diverse Bodies’ followed by ’Interactivos? Material Cultures in the digital age’ and ’Grigri Pixel: makers (…)

  • For Contested Tongues, an event by Witte de With Class of ’16, Algolit members Manetta Berends, Gijs de Heij and An Mertens will present a performative lecture in which they will use texts of the ongoing exhibition Para/Fictions read by automated scripts developed during algolit-sessions. (…)

  • To round off the installation The Scandinavian Institute of Computational Vandalism we are glad to invite you to the première of the film Constant Vitrine directed by haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml.
    What happens when a camera, an image database and software for optical face recognition (…)

  • In computation, a ’pipe’ is a method that enables various software modules to connect to each other, where the output of one program is treated as the input for the next program. At the Promiscuous Pipelines worksession that Constant organised with FoAM last summer we used the principle of (…)

  • Algolit is a project of Constant, a workgroup around i-littérature, free code and text. On Saturday 19th March Olivier Perriquet will demonstrate how to address cognitive exhaustion and detect syntactic style using FreeLing. FreeLing is an open source language analysis tool suite, released (…)

  • An Electromagnetic Walk is an installation comprising a series of everyday objects, each one connected to a headset and a control unit. Manufactured using textile techniques, a fine copper mesh overlaps with the familiar objects creating antennas that can pick up electromagnetic waves present (…)

  • The city counts less trees than humans. Maybe that is the reason why inhabitants cultivate such strong relationships with the trees that are there. During this walk storyteller and nature guide An Mertens invites you to meet some remarkable trees in the neighbourhood Bosnia in St-Gilles.
    You (…)

  • As a contribution to ’elif n°1 : Résistance électronique, stratégie éditoriale et cyberféminisme’, a seminar reserved for students of Ensba Lyon and Esad Saint-Etienne, An Mertens will present a series of linguistic analysis models and how their application resembles a series of tales from the (…)

  • April

  • Constant will be joining the Libre Graphics Meeting in London to gather with developers and users of Free, Libre and Open Source software from all over the world. With a presentation on the Objects in Commons worksession, news from OSP (html2print), the Scandinavian Institute for Comparative (…)

  • Algolit is a project of Constant, a workgroup around i-litterature, free code and text.
    On Saturday 23rd April 2016 (10-18h) Yann Chevaleyre will give an introduction to machine learning models for text analysis. Yann is professor and researcher at the LIPN laboratory at the University of (…)

  • In 2014, after a public outcry against the perceived lack of diversity in emoji characters available on smartphones, the Unicode Consortium added five "Skin tone modifiers" to the set and considered the issue resolved.
    As a contribution to the event Executions: conversations on code, politics (…)

  • As part of An Electromagnetic Walk, the installation in the window of Constant, the artist Claire Williams invites us to go for a walk in the city in company of the antennas made from everyday objects - a hat, a cane, a glove, an umbrella, a handbag. These objects, knit with conduction wire and (…)

  • Valery Vermeulen will bring his tools and knowledge to ease your understanding of biofeedback and allow you to parse your brain data. You will discover how to use techniques coming from the domains of biofeedback and psychophysiology in an artistic context.
    Biofeedback and psychophysiology (…)

  • Tracks&Traces is an installation that displays the visual and sound archives gleaned during the workshops of computer generated music that took place in 2015 at the Cultural Centre Jacques Franck. Sweeping the entire musical spectrum, these sound vignettes allow to understand the infinite (…)

  • In the context of the installation Tracks&Traces in the window of Constant, Open Sound Lab will organise a series of workshops during the weekends of the Parcours d’artistes St-Gilles/Forest 2016 for anyone interested in computer generated music.
    Open Sound Lab is an introduction workshop (…)