OSP (Open Source Publishing) is Harrisson, Pierre Huyghebaert, Femke Snelting, Nicolas Maleve, Yi Liang, Ludivine Loiseau and Ivan Monroy Lopez. OSP is an experimental graphic design bureau aiming to test the possibilities and realities of doing graphic design using Free Software tools.
A brand new version of the Open Clip Art Library just came out!
26175 (and growing) scalable vector graphics, all available under a public domain license: they may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods [...]
identi.ca/osp make his best to track our recent activity via our differents IP addresses, where Brussels seems synthetise by 4 positions, here with the background lazy to display, osp frogs above water.
A few minutes later, a new osp -Ivan- connection from Schaerbeek, North of Brussels, strangely shrink the scale by positionning a bright new frog [...]
5 years of Free, Libre and Open Source design experiments. Now available in chronological order: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works
Last sunday we drawed a book.
675 417 km2 pour Luce
contour lines of France
scale 1:385142
interval : 30 m
strokes : 0.05 pt
16 binded sections
cover : green cardboard 300 g + clothed back
single copy
Sur base des élévations au pas de 250m proposées au téléchargement par l’I.G.N. France. Calcul des courbes de niveaux et sortie Postscript opérés par GRASS [...]
We asked your opinion: Should the logo we proposed for the Libre Graphics Meeting drip or not? 50 readers voted, and yes was selected in total 51 times and no 34 times (more than one answer possible). Apart from that, strong opinions were voiced on- and offline. Interestingly, these often were against the drip. [...]
Ricardo Lafuente and Ana Carvalho imported/exported a Print Party to Porto. With live Fortune Cookies … how brave! (Recipe for cookies + messages)
Constant is a non-profit association, based and active in Brussels since 1997 in the fields of feminism, copyright alternatives and working through networks.
Les Samedies est un groupe de femmes qui ont en commun le désir d’apprendre à construire un serveur, de le maintenir ou simplement de le comprendre.
Researching the radiated archive. Software experiments, workshops and events.
In the framework of “The human condition in the digital age” organized by Banlieues and CFS. Using the game Yoogle! as a starting point, we will analyze the traces we left behind while surfing and what can be done with them. WithMichel Cleempoel (Constantvzw), Nicolas Hanoteau (Banlieues asbl) and Christian Vandiepenbeeck (CFS asbl)
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Yoogle!
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Workshop
Nicolas Malevé, Constant member, will take part in Icarus film maker (or the history of a vertical movement of the sight), an afternoon of reflections about the history of aerial view through art history, through the histories of thought, techniques and sciences, war imagery, cartography and of course, cinema.
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Towards
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Lecture
En mai 2010, Constant et De Pianofabriek accueilleront la rencontre internationale de graphisme libre, Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), un événement annuel où se rencontrent les développeur/euse/s d’outils graphiques comme Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus and Fontforge pour améliorer ensemble leurs softwares. Il est plus facile pour certain/e/s de financer leur voyage a Bruxelles que pour d’autres. Voilà pourquoi nous avons besoin de votre aide. La communauté LGM essaie de trouver 10.000$ (7350 €) pour que les (…)
Constant member Nicolas Malevé takes part in the panel discussion L’image écartelée entre mémoire collective, réappropiation et exploitation. The panel is part of the professional day with the title: Main basse sur les archives ? taking place in the framework of the documentary festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris.
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Seminar
De Geuzen is a foundation for multi-visual research and the collaborative identity of Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting and Renée Turner. Since 1996 they have employed a variety of tactics to explore female identity, narratives of the archive and media image ecologies.
9-14 February 2010
De Geuzen participates in Artefact Festival, Leuven (Belgium) with a new version of the Global Anxiety Monitor
Art’s Birthday is an annual event first proposed by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou. Read more…
Read more about our adventures with electricity, LED’s, typography and skill sharing.
Performed @ The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice (Bergen, Norway) View archived project.
15 > 17 October 2009
De Geuzen @ Artivistic, Montréal (CA)
Rotterdam / July 09 2009
FEED: is a multi-authored collection produced on the fly. You can see the archive here.
Texts performed and added to on various occasions since 2007
Add some Anarchist Feminism to your YouTube comments (Firefox Greasemonkey userscript)
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Developed with Michael Murtaugh for De Geuzen Feed: project.
Download scripts: /files/playlist.zip
Project New Media Pathway, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
October 2009 – January 2010
Workshop with design students at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart (29-05 → 03-06)
Catalogue text for Kate Rich’s exhibition Feral Trade in HTTP gallery.
Python script running through Isabella Beeton’s Book of Household Management.
Download script: /files/isabella.zip
Een performatieve lezing die aan de hand van kookboeken, manuals en magische formules de parallel tussen code en recepten onderzoekt.