Trames et Chaînes: collection hiver 2020

La trame et la chaîne sont des termes de tissage que Constant utilise pour tisser des histoires sur et entre différents projets. La trame fait référence aux fils tendus sur le métier à tisser. Sur ce site web, les trames collectent de la documentation sur des projets existants. La chaîne est le fil qui passe entre les fils de trame à l’aide d’une bobine. Les chaînes sont donc des histoires thématiques qui établissent des relations entre différents projets.

Selected wefts

Algorithmes et Texte

How can a machine read a poem in an authentic way? What does collaborative authorship mean? How do you make non-linear narratives? How can you use programming language to generate stories? Which stories do complex computermodels tell, if you let them talk without a graphical interface? (An Mertens)

Slippery Knowledge

Ways/methods/practices of sharing and expanding knowledge. (Elodie Mugrefya)

Collective Hospitality

A series of reflections and inspirational projects developed in and out Constant, that explore the concept of ‘hospitality’ in the framework of collaborative creative processes. (Donatella Portoghese)

Reconnaissance des formes

Weaving and wefting through abstract images hidden somewhere in the jelly-like mesohyl of Constant’s on-line ecosystem. (Femke Snelting)

Selected warps

Constant Variable

Documentation of the Free Libre Open Source Software Arts Lab that Constant ran between 2011 and 2014 in rue Gallait in Brussels. (Wendy Van Wynsberghe)

Algolit

From Oulipo recipes to the narrative perspectives of algorithms. The research of Algolit, a group on free text and code, started in October 2012 and is still ongoing today. This warp gives an idea of the different stages and topics that crossed the group and its changing members. (An Mertens/Algolit)

Worksessions

An overview of all worksessions and their documentation, from 2014 until today