March 2023 - February 2024

  • January

  • 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 2023, the feedback pool consisted of Reni Hofmüller (esc medien kunst labor), Tere Badia (…)

  • Opening installation: Thursday 26 January 2023 from 18:00 on Workshop: Sunday 5 March 2023 from 14:00 to 16:00
    rosa (they, them) is a feminist server that travels between different locations, providing a mobile infrastructure for learning, documentation, and experiments for the meetings that (…)

  • March

  • In the framework of the symposium by Cybioses - Life in the Future Imperfect*, which run from 2nd-5th of March and delved into the thematic of slow futures, Constant organised a SPLINT game night at Au Jus on Friday the 3rd of March. It was open to everyone who wanted to play some speculative (…)

  • rosa (they, them) is a feminist server that travels between different locations, providing a mobile infrastructure for learning, documentation, and experiments for the meetings that happened during the A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers project. rosa is not only its constituting hardware (…)

  • rosa (they, them) is a feminist server that travels between different locations, providing a mobile infrastructure for learning, documentation, and experiments for the meetings that happened during the A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers project. rosa is not only its constituting hardware (…)

  • rosa (they, them) is a feminist server that travels between different locations, providing a mobile infrastructure for learning, documentation, and experiments for the meetings that happened during the A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers project. rosa is not only its constituting hardware (…)

  • Constant joined the International Trans*feminist Digital Depletion Strike and invited the students of the Digital Design master’s programme at erg to occupy the window of our office.
    On 8th March 2023, the International Trans*feminist Digital Depletion Strike called for a day of action against (…)

  • Is it still possible to make websites that look like us?
    During the round table with members of Open Source Publishing, Speculoos, Variable, Atelier Cartographique, several designers and developers from Brussels tried to unfold their experiences towards singular practices and designs.
    More (…)

  • What do electromagnetic waves, urban infrastructures and legal zones sound like?
    The Techno-Cul-de-Sac worksession took place in the end of November 2022 and investigated the city as a woven fabric of territories of inclusion and exclusion, of availabilities and scarcities, of obligations and (…)

  • Our colleagues Martino Morandi and Elodie Mugrefya were invited to contribute to the research program Digital Library at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
    Proposed by a group of artists, curators, activists and researchers, the Digital Library workshop aimed to reflect on digital space as future memory (…)

  • April

  • Constant started a series of artistic commissions in the framework of its 5-years research programme called SPLINT: "Speculative, Libre, Intersectional Technologies". The 2023’s topic revolved around the broad spectrum of Techno-disobedience.
    With this first call, Constant was looking for (…)

  • This was an open call for the worksession Techno-disobedience
    This worksession looked at techniques of disobedience as a means to question and resist the paradigm of an all-controlling and regulating technology.
    If civil disobedience illustrates how one can and should disobey a law they (…)

  • May

  • A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers (ATNOFS) was a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers whose communities travelled between each other in 2022 to share and extend their knowledges through live gatherings. ATNOFS argued that such platforms and tools (…)

  • A round table with Remy Farge (LDH - Ligue des droits humains), Peggy Pierrot (Tactic), Chloe Berthelemy (EDRi - European Digital Rights) and Corentin (Technopolice).
    Recently, a data leak revealed the use by the Belgian police of Clearview AI’s facial recognition software. This (…)

  • This was an open call from Hackers & Designers and Constant to invite artists to join for a three-day workshop in our studio in Koekelberg, taking place on 15, 16 and 17 September 2023.
    Generations after the eruption of the Volcano, three communities meet around the discovery of a (…)

  • Most contemporary electronics devices which are built today have small to very small components, called SMD (surface-mounted device) components. In 2019, 83% of broken devices and other electronic waste is shipped to the global south without any form of environmental processing, limiting the (…)

  • June

  • In the framework of this year theme, Techno-disobedience, Constant was pleased to support the collective Cypher Sex in their work on a Manual for Collective Digital Self-Defense Guides. This support was brought within the framework of the commission call launched at the beginning of the year (…)

  • Opening: Thursday 1 June 2023 from 17:30 on Workshop: Saturday 24 June 2023 from 11:00 to 17:00
    The Fear Healing Bowls are part of the arts of protection in Islamic tradition, practiced in different cultures across time. Through many layers such as written prayers, ornamental elements (…)

  • A collective jamming jammers* session!
    This afternoon we opened our doors to the public to give the opportunity to discuss, discover, enjoy exchanges with the group of participants at the worksession Techno-Disobedience, which took place during the previous week. In the garden of our studio, (…)

  • Founded some twenty years ago, Framasoft has made a major contribution to raising the profile of free software in France and the French-speaking world, initially through its free software directory, but also by making numerous online services available to the public. Among the best-known are (…)

  • These workshops proposed to set up and document ways of producing and broadcasting radio programmes or video recordings with free software outside the GAFAM platforms. It was the occasion to take the time to learn about different tools, in particular Peertube, and to see how structures (…)

  • These workshops proposed to set up and document ways of producing and broadcasting radio programmes or video recordings with free software outside the GAFAM platforms. It was the occasion to take the time to learn about different tools, in particular Peertube, and to see how structures (…)

  • The Fear Healing Bowls are part of the arts of protection in Islamic tradition, practiced in different cultures across time. Through many layers such as written prayers, ornamental elements representing beauty and locality, symbols of Divinity, craft knowledge(s), water and sound: this bowl is (…)

  • The students of the first year of the XPUB master course of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam shared the outcomes of the TTY trimester, a.k.a Special Issue 21, guest edited by Martino Morandi (Constant).
    This contribution was part of the yearly graduation show in WORM, where visitors were (…)

  • July

  • This was an open call for participation in the second worksession around the theme of techno-disobedience, which took place from the 23 to the 28th of October 2023 in Graz (Austria) at esc medien kunst labor.
    This worksession zoomed in on disobedient tactics as means for finding new pathways (…)

  • September

  • On September the 11th Tactic welcomed at the DK Nepthys Zwer*, a radical feminist historian and cartographer. Together with the public, she looked at what a map is and discussed the issues surrounding cartography, its power and its social and political uses. In what way can a map serve power as (…)

  • Generations after the eruption of the Volcano, three communities meet around the discovery of a mysterious mineral: the Dust. Essential source of energy, sacred healing powers, geological warning, what messages and hopes does the Dust carry? When different belief systems meet, how to find a (…)

  • October

  • We were thrilled to announce the publication of the latest catalogue for the Constant_V project. This catalogue offers a retrospective glimpse into the vitrines conceived from 2019 to 2022, showcasing the incredible work of various artists.
    If you are curious, feel free to reach out to us at (…)

  • The Weak Signaaal sessions have their documentation in the form of postcards! Thanks to the beautiful work of oddd who designed the poster made of 8 detachable postcards
    The postcards gather references from each of the 4 sessions of the Weak Signaaal series: A goose from the Marais Wiels (…)

  • A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter (now X) in 2022, more and more people and groups were looking for alternatives to the famous micro-blogging network, which had become the plaything of a billionaire with libertarian ideals and close ties to the far right. One of these alternatives is (…)

  • November

  • In the framework of the installation in the window of Constant, The Age of Dust, we organised a sharing moment in which some of the tools and strategies that were developed during its inspirational workshop were re-activated. We felt, with some sensors, sound, proximity, wetness, flame, light .. (…)

  • The window of Constant became for two months a public interface to address the ongoing struggle(s) to counter the depletion of community resources brought by Big High Tech Cloud corporations. ooooo* resized, relayed and re-transmitted hopefully + consensually, in transversal solidarity, the (…)

  • In the framework of the co-creative research project Speculative crafting for un/common futures (Specxcraft), the 4 Brussels-based organisations, Urban Species, Natagora, Centre Vidéo Bruxelles, Constant and their allies, came together to share the results of 4 internal workshops.
    These (…)

  • Constant invited its public to a moment of sharing and thinking together. We discussed practices that arose during the two collective research worksession of 2023 around Techno-disobedience
    The Brussels based artists who joined, brought back a number of ’talking pieces’ that helped us think of (…)

  • December

  • In 2023 Constant started a new series of yearly publications connected to the new artistic programme covering the next five years.
    We looked at ways of making a publication using experimental tools as part of a research into a system for documenting Constant’s activities. We asked graphic (…)

  • With the central position that commercial social media is gaining, Constant wanted to do a push to support federated social media and has re-activated its Mastodon account. The account is hosted on the Lurk server with the handle @constant.
    As we are an organisation that engages a lot with (…)

  • Splinter is a small server that travels and allows local and remote access to a set of documentation tools that Constant uses in different contexts. To achieve this modular way of working we connected splinter to circulations, which is a server hosted within the constant Galaxy of virtual (…)

  • For all the duration of the installation "Reflecting in the Debris of High Tech" in the window of Constant, video’s and other streams were shared via the systerserver peertube instance ( https://tube.systerserver.net ), a techno-feminist queer collective video-praxis platform!
    ALGO-RHYTHM, (…)

  • Moved by the intensification of the violence brought on Palestinian people by the state of Israel, and by the many mobilizations happening around us, Constant reflected on different modes to engage with the current situation that could make our solidarity practical.
    We started from our own (…)

  • For several months now, the asbl Tactic has been supporting higher education establishments in their transition to free and ethical tools for their digital infrastructure. To coincide with the publication of the next issue of the magazine Curseurs on the theme of ’education and digital (…)

  • For the next five years of its program, Constant is asking: What could/should Speculative, Libre and Intersectional Technologies (SPLINT) do?
    To start finding the language and open up our thinking around these questions a deck of cards, the SPLINT cards, were created by Constant and allies. (…)

  • Karaopo is a strategy for diverting our favorite, sometimes problematic songs. It makes us think of songs we can afford to sing at the top of our lungs, at parties, with friends, in the street, at demonstrations. Singing in the Debris of High Tech was a collective workshop in which we chose a (…)

  • February 2024

  • Constant had the pleasure to announce that the second number of the Curseurs magazine was out in paper format!
    This number was dedicated to the increasing pressure of computational infrastructures and methods on education, and to the possible ’F/LOSS’ paths to divert from the forced (…)

  • In 2024 Constant started a series of informal encounters with no precise plan yet, except to be a meeting point on these questions: the different proposals of a so-called "smart city", and the reasons and ways to oppose them; the proliferation of networked objects in the streets and (…)

  • Constant had the pleasure to announce that the second number of the Curseurs magazine was out in paper format!
    This number was dedicated to the increasing pressure of computational infrastructures and methods on education, and to the possible ’F/LOSS’ paths to divert from the forced (…)

  • Constant joined its friends and comrades from the Translocal Pipas Club for a panel at the 2024 edition of Transmediale Festival in Berlin.
    This public conversation wanted to bring together a network of networks that had been organising collectively towards joyful, systemic techno-political (…)

  • From the first feminist forums to #MeToo, the web has become a place where women can express themselves and meet others. The same is true for people of colour and LGBTQIA+ people. Yet all too often, the web remains a place where minorities are discriminated against and subjected to violence, as (…)

  • Declarations is an ongoing artistic research into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard. Declarations is a love letter to the crafts of designing with language. The project is initiated by Doriane Timmermans.
    This was a call for participation at a worksession who took place in (…)

  • To start the year, Constant celebrated the publication of the manual How to Cypher Sex: A Manual for Collective Digital Self-Defense Guides. Constant supported the collective Cypher Sex* in the making of this "how to" manual that lays out strategies on how to write locally-oriented digital (…)

  • Constant opens up a new portal to gather and think, write, make, break, bake and form thoughts together on what a "coding club" might be. As challenging as it is to create a space that welcomes and fosters awkardness, confusions and misfits around coding, we want to weave a thread that might (…)