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A bunch of wires next to a transparent plastic hose. They float into water or another viscous medium, soon to be connected to some strange plugs.

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Constant_V: 01L():{Liquid Larvae Robot Specimens} Immersion cooling is an emerging technology increasingly used in data centers. All the computers are submerged in a special oil, a supposedly more efficient cooling solution than “traditional” air (…)

An ASCII drawing of a frog's or toad's legs, rendered with dot patterns alone, nerdy yet mysterious.

Otherwordly Communications

Converging - following the elements ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ｀、ヽ｀ヽ No predetermined date or time because this is weather dependent ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ｀、ヽ｀ヽ In this part of the Otherworldly Communications thematic year*, (…)

An unknown object with a rough surface made of small pyramids. Colours and shapes remind of an aerial image of a desert or an alien planet.

Otherwordly Communications

0v ⏚ zero volts Two days of return to ground, research of electronic legacies, recognition of mineral ancestors, dissolution of black boxes. The complexity of electronic devices keeps increasing, their size (…)

A night version of the planet Earth is shown on a background of stars and nebulas.

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Your attention please (even if you don’t like it!) - When digital technology colonises what little common ground we have left "How does the digitised world keep its promises?" Welcome to the gesticulated lecture by Maxime Berrin. – Every 2nd Monday of the month, Constant's partners, the non-profit organisations (…)

A blob of bright yellow slimy substance sticking to a log or a tree, a slime mold observed in the forest. The blob creates a visible network of a thousand of small crossing threads.

Otherwordly Communications

B * L * O * B study day Join us for a study day of the "Physarum polycephalum", a slime mold, or myxomycete, popularly known as the Blob, in the context of the yearly trajectory called Otherworldly communications. (…)

Otherwordly Communications

Open Call Worksession: Otherworldly Communications IN SHORT: Otherwordly communications will look at interspecies coexistence and their different arrangements of life. By life in this context we mean biological, geological, digital, immaterial, (…)

Cover of the map of the project Qeer Codes in pink and yellow

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Q(ee)R Codes New boundaries BXL 1000 Constant had the pleasure to take part at the opening of the project Q(ee)R Codes - New Boundaries BXL 1000 by sound artist and radio maker Anna Raimondo. Opening & Sound Walk : Saturday 29 (…)

Otherwordly Communications

Workshop : 01L():{Liquid Larvae Robot Specimens} Keywords: workshop, electronics, cooling oil, data centers, speculation, robotics. Artist Igor Bobbeldijk invites you to a session where we will be diving into how to build robotic creatures (…)

A dense group of people is drawn in grey on a white background. Only the silhouette of each personna is visible, there are no precise details. Red rectangles highlight some of the people in the group. The outline of an urban building is also visible in the background.

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’Predictive’ police in Belgium: where do we stand? Police forces around the world are now relying on algorithms to analyse their databases and predict future crimes or profile potential culprits. Belgium is no exception. In Antwerp, in the (…)

A cane, sticky notes, another body

Zine launch: A Cane, Sticky-notes, Another Body Constant is very happy to invite you to the launch of its yearly Zine! In 2024 accessibility was central to our program. This Zine gives an impression of different perspectives and reflections (…)

A photo of Marie Curie's notebook of the 1904-1906 period. We see Curie's fingerprint which at the time of their analysis in 1985, were still radioactive. Around the fingerprints, there's also notes from the researcher Pierre Pellerin who analysed the notebooks of Marie Curie. The notes indicate the fingerprints with arrows, the date of the analysis and what was found: radium-226 which is the most stable radium isotope with a half-life of 1,600 years.

Otherwordly Communications

˚⊱ Waste is the space ⊰˚ study day Join us for a study day on waste and toxicity in the context of the yearly trajectory called Otherworldly communications. Otherworldly communications is framed by researching interspecies (…)