February 2023 - January 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 we will be welcoming Nepthys Zwer, a radical feminist historian and cartographer. We’ll be looking at what a map is and discussing the issues surrounding cartography, its power and its social and political uses. In what way can a map serve power as well as struggles and the (…)

  • Opening: Thursday 21 September 2023 from 18:00 on
    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? (…)

  • October

  • We are thrilled to introduce you to our latest publication 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 are looking for alternatives to the famous microblogging network, which has become the plaything of a billionaire with libertarian ideals and close ties to the far right. One of these alternatives is Mastodon, (…)

  • November

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

  • The Vitrine of Constant becomes for two months a public interface to address the ongoing struggle(s) to counter the depletion of community resources brought by BigHigh Tech Cloud corporations. ooooo resizes, relays and re-transmits hopefully + consensually, in transversal solidarity, the words (…)

  • 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 invites you to a moment of sharing and thinking together. We will discuss practices that arose during a collective research week around Techno-disobedience that was organised in collaboration with esc medien kunst labor in Graz, Austria in October: (…)

  • December

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

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 has 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 (…)

  • 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 is a collective workshop in which we choose a (…)

  • We have the pleasure to announce that the second number of the Curseurs magazine is out in paper format!
    This number is dedicated to the increasing pressure of computational infrastructures and methods on education, and to the possible Libre paths to divert from the forced platformization. (…)

  • This year Constant will make space and time for 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 (…)

  • Constant wants to open 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 (…)

  • We have the pleasure to announce that the second number of the Curseurs magazine is out in paper format!
    This number is dedicated to the increasing pressure of computational infrastructures and methods on education, and to the possible Libre paths to divert from the forced platformization. (…)