September 2022 - August 2023

  • July

  • On Friday 9th September from 10h till 17h Anaïs Berck will organise a workshop around the source code of the experiments that are on show in the window of Constant_V.
    Since places are limited, if you’re interested to attend the workshop, please send an email to: publishing@anaisberck.be. (…)

  • “We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don’t have to avert our eyes with shame, so that we can hold our heads up high and (…)

  • The below open call invited for applications to the worksession Techno-Cul-de-Sac The worksession took place from 20th to the 25th November 2022 in Constant Studio in Brussels.
    We invite artists, city dwellers, activists, electronic scavengers, conflicted urbanists and reluctant designers to (…)

  • September

  • A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers is a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers whose communities travel between each other to share and extend their skills through live gatherings
    The fifth encounter of the series will be hosted by the Feminist (…)

  • Electric scooters are a new stable presence in the city that brings new social and economic patterns of profit-extraction and resource usage, but also brings a lot of people to move differently through the city.
    Out of curiosity about this platformized city infrastructure, the Opencoil (…)

  • Presentation and discussion with Peggy Pierrot
    Algorithmic society, algorithmic bias, algorithmic capitalism, algorithmic governance... words associated with adjectives derived from algorithm are appearing in all areas of our lives in the digitised societies that we live in. We speak of (…)

  • Fictional weather forecasts; a social artistic project by Amina Saâdi and Rébecca Fruitman.
    Opening installation: Thursday 22 September from 18:00 on.
    Blue sunshine, milky skies, budding clouds .... the weather is a favourite subject that encourages encounters and loosens tongues.
    For the (…)

  • October

  • Superfloukse is a dystopian non-non-fiction written and produced by Leslie, Corentin and Martino, loosely based on the text "Pistage dans le cyberespace", published in issue 53 of the journal Culture & Démocratie.
    It stands in continuity with the research on wireless tracking and (…)

  • A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers is a collaborative project researching and experimenting with a server’s intersectional, feminist and ecological potential, whose communities travel between each other to share and extend their skills through live gatherings.
    The sixth encounter of the (…)

  • November

  • Collective space looking for additional members!
    A collective space of more than 200m2 is slowly taking shape in the neighborhood of Koekelberg, Chaussée de Jette 388. Inhabited, for now, by artists, collectives and researchers working around technology, visual arts, architecture and urban (…)

  • Public moments in a week-long collective research full of experiments, encounters and artistic interferences with the city’s technological zones of inclusion and exclusion.
    23 Nov, 17:00 - The Good, the Stib and the Poppy Debate with Open Coil + Thyl Van Gyzegem (IEB) [English] What to do (…)

  • Projection of the movie “Machines in Flames” (50min) and debate with: Andrew Culp, Dana Papachristou and Brett Zehner
    The movie recounts the history of the CLODO group, that mysteriously brought on a series of attacks to the computing industry in Toulouse in the 80s.
    In an open-form panel, (…)

  • December

  • Opening for the vitrine

  • For the next five years of its program (2023-2027), 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 (…)

  • Splint print and play party

  • Opening installation: Thursday 1 December from 18:00 on.
    The SPLINT deck of cards is ready to be put to the test!
    For the next five years of its program, Constant will relentlessly ask: What could/should Speculative, Libre and Intersectional Technologies (SPLINT) do? A deck of cards, the (…)

  • January 2023

  • Between 2 and 5 March 2023 Constant will collaborate with JV 24 and SpecXcraft on a winter symposium about "slow futures" called Cybioses – life in the future imperfect.
    The full open call can be read here: https://www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-2-cybioses-life-in-the-future-imperfect/ (…)

  • Constant is looking for interns (m/x/f) all year round

  • 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 (…)

  • February

  • The article Constant Padology focuses on an essential component of Constant’s tool-ecology, a simple piece of software that has permeated most activities and practices, from internal organization, to collective writing situations and publishing efforts: Etherpad.
    Constant’s Etherpad-lite (…)

  • March

  • In the framework of the symposium by Cybioses - Life in the Future Imperfect, which runs from 2nd-5th of March and delves into the thematic of slow futures, we organise a SPLINT game night at Au Jus on Friday 3rd of March. It is open to everyone who wants to play some speculative rounds about (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • >> If you want to participate, please send an e-mail to: info@constantvzw.org with the subject title "rosa, March 5th".

  • Constant joins the International Trans*feminist Digital Depletion Strike and invites the students of the Digital Design master’s programme at erg to occupy the vitrine in Rue du Fort.
    On 8th March 2023, the International Trans*feminist Digital Depletion Strike calls 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 and Atelier Cartographique, several designers and developers from Brussels will try to unfold their experiences towards singular practices and designs. (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Martino Morandi and Elodie Mugrefya are 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 aims to reflect on digital space as future memory and epicentre of (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 controversial (…)

  • Hackers & Designers and Constant invite you to join us 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 mysterious mineral: the Dust. (…)

  • 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 is pleased to support the collective Cypher Sex in their work on a Manual for Collective Digital Self-Defense Guides. This support is 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 (…)

  • Join us during a collective jamming jammers* session! It will be 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, we’ll be informally sharing (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • During these workshops, we will propose to set up and document ways of producing and broadcasting radio programmes or video recordings with free software outside the GAFAM platforms. We will also take the time to learn about different tools, in particular Peertube, and to see how structures (…)

  • During these workshops, we will propose to set up and document ways of producing and broadcasting radio programmes or video recordings with free software outside the GAFAM platforms. We will also 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 will be sharing the outcomes of the TTY trimester, a.k.a Special Issue 21, guest edited by Martino Morandi and Constant.
    This contribution will be part of the yearly graduation show in WORM, where (…)

  • 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 (…)