November 2023 - October 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 (…)

  • September

  • 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

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • February 2024

  • 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. (…)

  • 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. (…)

  • 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 will join its friends and comrades from the Translocal Pipas Club for a panel at the 2024 edition of Transmediale Festival in Berlin.
    This public conversation brings together a network of networks that has been organising collectively towards joyful, systemic techno-political change (…)

  • From the first feminist forums to #MeToo, the web has become a place where women can express themselves and meet others. The same is true for people of colour and LGBTQIA+ people. Yet all too often, the web remains a place where minorities are discriminated against and subjected to violence, as (…)

  • Declarations is an ongoing artistic research into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard. Declarations is a love letter to the crafts of designing with language.
    Declarations is looking for web-artisans and declarative artists.
    The project is initiated by Doriane Timmermans. The (…)

  • Opening: Thursday 22 February 2024 from 18:00 on
    To start this year, Constant celebrates the publication of the manual How to Cypher Sex: A Manual for Collective Digital Self-Defense Guides. Constant supported the collective Cypher Sex in the making of this "how to" manual that will lay out (…)

  • March

  • Constant took part in the writing of a bugreport on Frontier Climate on the initiative of TITiPI.
    This bugreport is a collective action against Frontier Climate. Frontier Climate is a consortium of Big Tech companies which was established to manage advanced market commitments (AMC) for carbon (…)

  • On Monday 11 March 2024, we invite you to discover the Digital Code, a self-proclaimed code of law written and staged by the Comité humain du numérique.
    The Comité humain du numérique is a group of citizens campaigning for a digital world that adapts to people and not the other way round. For (…)

  • This year’s theme focuses on the critical topic of accessibility and its many intersections in the physical and virtual spaces. For the first worksession, Constant will be gathering with two of its partner organisations, Kaaitheater and Dr. Guislain Museum, to examine the different crossings (…)

  • This workshop consists of speculating and creating prototypes for on and off buttons, customized for your body. What kind of button would your brain, neurodiverse or otherwise, like to have made? What gesture does your hand/other body part want to do to activate something (technologically)? What (…)

  • April

  • Opening: Friday 12-04-2024 18:00 -> 00:00
    This installation participates at the open doors weekends of Parcours d’Artistes Saint-Gilles 2024
    Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project that looks into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-language. The project is initiated by (…)

  • Opening: Friday 12-04-2024 18:00 -> 00:00
    This installation participates at the open doors weekends of Parcours d’Artistes Saint-Gilles 2024
    Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project that looks into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-language. The project is initiated by (…)

  • Opening: Friday 12-04-2024 18:00 -> 00:00
    This installation participates at the open doors weekends of Parcours d’Artistes Saint-Gilles 2024
    Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project that looks into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-language. The project is initiated by (…)

  • In the framework of this year theme, A cane, sticky notes, another body, Constant is pleased to support artist and machine learning engineer, Ahnjili ZhuParris.
    As part of her research supported by Constant’s commission, Ahnjili animates a workshop during the Oscillation festival organised by (…)

  • May

  • Visit our studio during the Open Studio Days!
    Revisit Reuse (developed by Femke Snelting and Eva Weinmayr, designed with Flo*Souad Benaddis) is a space full of questions and provocations about Free Culture and Open Access. How to deal with cultural appropriation, power differentials and the (…)

  • Our colleague Michael Murtaugh participates at the Libre Graphics Meeting that takes place in Rennes, France, from 9 to 11 May 2024.
    As a teacher of a media design course in an art school (Experimental Publishing, or XPUB in Rotterdam), he teaches and uses with students a mix of free software (…)

  • Since 1999, in the majority of Flemish municipalities and throughout the Brussels-Capital Region, voters have had to use a voting computer in the polling booth. Despite the cost, the lack of transparency, the bugs and incidents at each election... you will vote twice in 2024 with this system. (…)

  • We are delighted to invite you to the book launch of specXcraft’s collective publication (EN/FR): Speculative crafting for un/common futures in Brussels | Fabriquer collectivement d’im/possibles futurs pour Bruxelles
    This is a polyphonic account in words and images of the work that four (…)

  • June

  • This workshop consists of further speculating and creating more prototypes for on and off buttons, customized for your body and connecting them to electronic devices. What kind of button would your brain, neurodiverse or otherwise, like to have made? What gesture does your hand/other body part (…)

  • Come and discover Nubo, get help setting up your smartphone, laptop or tablet and think about digital sustainability!
    Nubo is a Belgian cooperative offering online services that respect your privacy. Nubo’s services are open to everyone, whatever you want to use them for. Nubo is a mailbox and (…)

  • A clandestine cinema in the middle of an empty terrain, the mobile radio system in a demonstration, a market stand to digitise and exchange books, or a soundsystem in the middle of a pedestrian area... Many of the activities that take place to re-appropriate the city and to deviate public spaces (…)

  • On the last weekend of June, the students of the final year of the Experimental Publishing masters of the Piet Zwart Institute will set up their graduation show at Slash Gallery in Rotterdam.
    In parallel to the graduation show, the first year XPUBbers will guide visitors into a counter-tour of (…)

  • July

  • INDEX ▩ INTRODUCTION ✦ WORKSESSION ▇ WHAT ARE WE DOING THIS SESSION? ▲ WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT ◪ WHY MUSEUM DR. GUISLAIN ⫸ PRACTICAL INFO Ⓐ ACCESSIBILITY ◉ HOW TO REACT TO THIS CALL
    ▩ INTRODUCTION In the context of Constant’s 1-year research on accessibility, titled "A cane, Sticky-notes, (…)

  • “” ​ During our upcoming ConfusingTechySituations, we will delve into the final chapters of Antony Loewenstein’s *The Palestine Laboratory*, focusing on Mass Surveillance and Social Media. Loewenstein examines how Israel has leveraged its "expertise" from testing on the Palestinian population to (…)

  • The Website fabulations encounter explores website modifications as a way of taking agency on already designed websites. Inspired by the notion of ’tactical design’ (cf Nolwenn Maudet), we remix the web as a user-hacker, questioning our agency as individuals and collectivities on the web. (…)

  • Opening: Thursday 26-09-2024 18:00 -> 22:00
    Come celebrate the Bye Bye Binary typotheque 2.0 launch!
    Bye Bye Binary (BBB) is a French-Belgian collective created in 2018. It proposes the exploration of new typographic shapes adapted to the French language, especially the creation of new (…)

  • Constant will be part of the "Questioning Infrastructure" panel at this year’s Fubar Festival!
    At Constant we have been busy for many years finding ways to support and archive the modes of collective creation that are enabled by F/LOSS software.
    Splinter is a traveling server that continues (…)

  • On Monday, October 14, we’re offering a workshop with Arthur Lacomme from Radio Panik on mobile radio studio devices.
    The mobile studio is a light, modular device specially designed to get out of the radio studios and enable broadcasts, interviews and recordings to be made directly where (…)

  • Imagine a crochet workshop where patterns are seen as living algorithms, where each stitch is a step in an unfolding pattern. While computers may generate crochet patterns, it’s the human hand that brings them to life—feeling each loop, navigating each stitch, and making adjustments along the (…)

  • *WHEN Opening: Thursday 24 - 10 - 2024 17:00 -> 21:00 Presentation: 18:30 -> 20:00 Exhibition: 25 -> 27 - 10 - 2024 13:00 -> 18:00
    *WHAT Constant invites back the people behind 4 projects previously shown in the window of Constant to form a group exhibition of their afterlives. Linking (…)

  • In the afternoon of Saturday 7th of December different explorations will be shared with the public at Museum Dr Guislain, in Gent.

    During the worksession A Cane, Sticky notes, Another body, a group of 30 people collaborate and experiment with playful ways to ’go online’, while working with the beauty of dysfluency, the unusual routine, and going off-track.

    We share this research publicly through a spatial set up, a playing field that functions as a way to make the digital physical and multi sensorial. What can, could or should be considered through thinking with an ’accessibility interface’ ?