Wefts and warps: winter collection 2021
Warp and weft are weaving terms, which Constant uses to weave stories about and in-between different projects. A warp refers to the thread stretched on a loom. On the Constant website, warps are extensions of projects, often ways to navigate to and through documentation, media and notes. The weft is the thread that runs between the warp threads with the help of a coil. At Constant, wefts are thematic stories that establish relationships between different projects.
Selected wefts
Neutrality
The collective Just for the Record is searching for weak signals of neutrality.
The Collective Collections for re-Use license
The CC4r was written following the Unbound Libraries worksession in June 2021. The authored work released under the CC4r was never yours to begin with. The CC4r considers authorship to be part of a collective cultural effort and rejects authorship as ownership derived from individual genius. This means to recognize that it is situated in social and historical conditions and that there may be reasons to refrain from release and re-use.
Promiscuous Publishing
A promiscuous publication is NOT like parallel, hybrid, or cross-media publishing. It is a multi-headed and polycentric form of making public.
Positions in Free Culture
Texts and interviews about Constant’s commitment to Free, Libre and Open Source software and Open Content Licenses.
Surveillance Update
An update on the many ways that Constant has been addressing issues of surveillance.
Selected warps
sponge
Documentation of the ongoing collaboration with Michael Murtaugh and Martino Morandi on the ’sponge’, an ecosystem of tools to index, link, and rewrite these digital materials to tell (new) stories with Constant activities.
Bureaucracksy documentation
This Warp documents the worksession Bureacracksy.
Bureaucracksy took place between 7 and 12 December 2020 and brought together artivist practices around the imaginative re-appropriations of rules and regulations. Critical attitudes, artistic positions, creative bureaucrats re-purposed and re-oriented operators of bureaucratic power. The Warp links recordings, images, notes and other outcomes of the session.
Unbound Libraries Documentation
Unbound Libraries was a worksession around digital libraries and tools for the organisation and codification of knowledge. Unbound Libraries took place online from 31 May to 5 June 2020. For the documentation of this intense week of home residencies and online exchanges, we asked to 4 different participants to recount and reflect on their situated experience of the worksession, as a generous way to share some of what happened. Their contributions are proposed here in form of itineraries through the huge amount of interviews, texts, recordings collected.
