2024

  • November 2023

  • The window of Constant became for two months a public interface to address the ongoing struggle(s) to counter the depletion of community resources brought by Big High Tech Cloud corporations. ooooo* resized, relayed and re-transmitted hopefully + consensually, in transversal solidarity, the (…)

  • December

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

  • 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 (…)

  • January

  • 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 was a collective workshop in which we chose a (…)

  • February

  • Constant had the pleasure to announce that the second number of the Curseurs magazine was out in paper format!
    This number was dedicated to the increasing pressure of computational infrastructures and methods on education, and to the possible ’F/LOSS’ paths to divert from the forced (…)

  • Constant had the pleasure to announce that the second number of the Curseurs magazine was out in paper format!
    This number was dedicated to the increasing pressure of computational infrastructures and methods on education, and to the possible ’F/LOSS’ paths to divert from the forced (…)

  • In 2024 Constant started 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 in the streets and (…)

  • Constant joined its friends and comrades from the Translocal Pipas Club for a panel at the 2024 edition of Transmediale Festival in Berlin.
    This public conversation wanted to bring together a network of networks that had been organising collectively towards joyful, systemic techno-political (…)

  • 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. The project is initiated by Doriane Timmermans.
    This was a call for participation at a worksession who took place in (…)

  • To start the year, Constant celebrated 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 lays out strategies on how to write locally-oriented digital (…)

  • Constant opens 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 might (…)

  • March

  • Constant took part in the writing of a bugreport on Frontier Climate on the initiative of TITiPI.
    This bugreport was 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 (…)

  • On Monday 11 March 2024, we discovered together 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 the (…)

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

  • This workshop consisted 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)? (…)

  • April

  • Opening: Friday 12-04-2024 18:00 -> 00:00
    This installation participated 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 participated 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 participated 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 was pleased to support artist and machine learning engineer, Ahnjili ZhuParris.
    Screen-to-Soundscape (STS) is a speculative prototype that mimics traditional screen readers by transforming a browser into (…)

  • May

  • Our studio was open to the public during the Open Studio Days!
    Revisit Reuse (developed by Femke Snelting and Eva Weinmayr, designed with Flo*Souad Benaddis) was a space full of questions and provocations about Free Culture and Open Access. It questioned how to deal with cultural (…)

  • Our colleague Michael Murtaugh participated at the Libre Graphics Meeting that took 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... they voted twice again 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 consisted 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 (…)

  • An Open Door Day to 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. (…)

  • 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 sound-system in the middle of a pedestrian area... Many of the activities that take place to re-appropriate the city and to deviate public (…)

  • The students of the first year of the XPUB master course of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam shared their Counter-Tourist Information Center a.k.a Special Issue 24.
    The issue was the outcome of the trimester "ON LOITERING and other forms of in-situ computation", guest edited by our (…)

  • July

  • This was an open call to participate to the worksession that took place in Museum Dr. Guislain in December 2024. 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 (…)

  • During this ConfusingCodingSituation, we delved 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 become a global (…)

  • September

  • For the second artistic commission in 2024, Constant was happy to invite graphic designer Loraine Furter.
    The idea was to develop further her interest in feminist, intersectional and accessible design taking Constant’s website as a study case and doing so, helping us developing a new website (…)

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

  • Constant invited everybody to 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 characters taking (…)

  • October

  • Constant was part of the Questioning Infrastructure panel at Fubar Festival 2024!
    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 this long (…)

  • On Monday 14 October a workshop took place 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 things are (…)

  • 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 invited back the people behind 4 projects previously shown in the window of Constant to form a group exhibition of their afterlives. Linking (…)

  • 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 characters taking inclusive and post-binary language as an experimental graphic and research field.
    During (…)

  • During this ConfusingCodingSituations we shared our unfinished, stored, failed, slowly forgotten projects — those bits of code, ideas, and experiments that never reached the finish line. Instead of focusing on polished results in a world that constantly pushes for efficiency, quick solutions, (…)

  • Finding ourselves in difficulty when sharing insights into the technical complexities that make splinter (our local server) possible, but stubbornly dedicated to the demystification of the technologies we use together, at Constant we decided to produce a comic that will totally ’splain it all. (…)

  • During its 2023-2027 artistic programme, Constant publishes an annual Zine showing a subjective overview of what happened during the year. The focus of 2024 was on accessibility, and in this small but warm publication we tried to recount our experiences, reflections, discoveries and (…)

  • This year Constant focused on the critical topic of accessibility and its many intersections in the physical and virtual spaces. During the worksession A Cane, Sticky notes, Another body, a group of 30 people from different backgrounds collaborated and experimented with playful ways to ’go (…)

  • For the past 2 years, thousands of people and hundreds of associations have been mobilizing against the Brussels Digital Decree. They are calling for human contact with administrations and more physical counters to be able to access essential rights and services.
    On Monday 9 of December, (…)

  • On the 12th of December, between 14:00 and 17:00, Constant invited artists from its network to spend some time discussing together A.I., as-in, Automated impossibilities, Agnostic Inventions, Affective Infrastructures, Astringent Influxes...
    This session was dedicated to taking practical steps (…)

  • 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 2024 the feedback pool consisted of Ren Britton, Tundé Adefioye and An Vandermeulen.