OSP

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.

Open Clip Art Library

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 [...]

Hop frogs on the map

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 [...]

Launching OSP-works

5 years of Free, Libre and Open Source design experiments. Now available in chronological order: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works

Contour book one

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 [...]

Thank You for Voting!

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. [...]

Biscoitos da Sorte

Ricardo Lafuente and Ana Carvalho imported/exported a Print Party to Porto. With live Fortune Cookies … how brave! (Recipe for cookies + messages)

Constant

Constant is a non-profit association, based and active in Brussels since 1997 in the fields of feminism, copyright alternatives and working through networks.

Samedies: Femmes & logiciels libres

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.

Active Archives

Researching the radiated archive. Software experiments, workshops and events.

The human condition in the digital age

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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Icarus film maker (or the history of a vertical movement of the sight)

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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Apportez votre soutien au Libre Graphics Meeting!

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 (…)

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Main basse sur les archives?

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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De Geuzen

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.

On Gaps and Silent Documents

9-14 February 2010
De Geuzen participates in Artefact Festival, Leuven (Belgium) with a new version of the Global Anxiety Monitor

Celebrate With A Little Wearable Resistance @ StudioXX

Art’s Birthday is an annual event first proposed by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou. Read more…

Wearable Resistance // Typographical Craftivism

Read more about our adventures with electricity, LED’s, typography and skill sharing.

FEED TO READ

Performed @ The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice (Bergen, Norway) View archived project.

Wearable Resistance // Résistance portable

15 > 17 October 2009
De Geuzen @ Artivistic, Montréal (CA)

Feed to be Fed: an evening of image and slogan mixing

Rotterdam / July 09 2009
FEED: is a multi-authored collection produced on the fly. You can see the archive here.

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Scenes of pressure and relief

Texts performed and added to on various occasions since 2007

texts/pressure.txt

Emma II

Add some Anarchist Feminism to your YouTube comments (Firefox Greasemonkey userscript)

/files/emmatube.user.js

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and create derivative works of. 9. We can analyze your application. We can remove any ad for any purpose, including Connect sites. * Payment Terms: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to users. 5. If any portion of this Statement must be the difference between a Mrs. Weston, only sixteen miles off, was always disagreeable”

/files/EmmaWoodhouse.odt

Playlist (caleidoscope version)

Developed with Michael Murtaugh for De Geuzen Feed: project.

Download scripts: /files/playlist.zip

Future Tools

Project New Media Pathway, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
October 2009 – January 2010

/files/future_tools.pdf

Corset, Skeleton, Skin

Workshop with design students at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart (29-05 → 03-06)

/texts/skeleton.pdf
Project weblog

Feral Labelling

Catalogue text for Kate Rich’s exhibition Feral Trade in HTTP gallery.

/texts/labelling.pdf

As the commander of an army

Python script running through Isabella Beeton’s Book of Household Management.

Download script: /files/isabella.zip

Catherine

Een performatieve lezing die aan de hand van kookboeken, manuals en magische formules de parallel tussen code en recepten onderzoekt.

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CSS textures