Feral Licensing, Cinema Sauvage 06.08.2019
During the Cinema Sauvage film festival, Constant organises a brainstorm / writing session to create copyleft licenses, made especially for Wild Movies ! Many artists, writers, filmmakers, software coders and other authors are supportive of the reuse and remixing of their work. For them, Free Culture licenses such as the GPL, Creative Commons and the […]
Warp & Weft Summercollection 2019 24.06.2019
A summery collection of on-line pages. Warps invite you to navigate to and through documentation, media and notes. Wefts are thematic constellations that establish relationships between different projects in the Constant Galaxy. The wefts and warps introduce a specific way of writing, indexing and creating collections. They make use of etherpads (pages for on-line collaborative […]
Call for participants: Collective Conditions 23.06.2019
Collective Conditions is a worksession which experiments with the generative potential of codes of conduct, complaints procedures, bug reports and copyleft licenses. We understand these socio-technical protocols as artistic and activist media and are curious about the role they can play in the (different) imagination of complex collectivities. By 'complex collectivity' we mean, for example, […]
Collective Conditions 23.06.2019
A worksession on the conditions for/of collectivity. From 8 until 16 November 2019, artists, software developers, theorists, activists and others will experiment with the generative potential of codes of conduct, bugreports, licenses and complaints. We would like to think of such performative documents as platforms to experiment with the conditions for complex collectivity in troubling […]
Iterations Residency 28.05.2019
Iterations researches the conditions of artistic collaboration in a digital context. Conviviality, togetherness, institutions, transitory operating systems, documents as performance and other notions will be investigated by six artists who are invited to think, exchange and experiment together in the spaces of Bozar Lab, Brussels. With: Luis Rodil-Fernández, Maxime Fuhrer, Géraldine Juarez, Martin Rumori, Mia […]
Noises I could not ignore Radio Programme 24.05.2019
On Friday 17th of May, in BNA-BBOT, Yared Yilma presented 12 sounds recorded at the Red Cross refugee centre in Eeklo to Caroline Claus (KU Leuven), Flavien Gillié and Wendy Van Wynsberghe. Together, they analyzed what was potentially heard, the choices of sounds and commented from their particular perspective and field of work. The sound […]
The Bitflipping Mixtape launch 23.05.2019
ATTENTION: Postponed due to a SEU! With The Bitflipping Mixtape, The Flipping (de)Ontologi(ci)sts set out to answer a simple, burning question: What is happening in the forbidden zone? The result was nothing short of a revelation. Finally turning all Truth Tables, The (de)Ontologi(ci)sts burrow into the past and future of Ageing Companions, a worksession that […]
Relearn 2019: Curved 22.05.2019
Relearn is a collective learning experiment with as many teachers as it has participants. It is motivated by the possibility to displace parameters of/for research, studying and learning. This summer, Relearn is back in the form of a curve, transversing multiple times and spaces. Curl yourselves this summer from, to and between Rotterdam, Brussels and […]
The library is open 22.05.2019
Dear readers, The Library Is Open invites you to an afternoon of workshops that make the operations within libraries visible. Join us in exploring the actions and roles of legal and extra-legal libraries (municipal, pirate, academic, +++), their custodians, and the public that form a community around collections of texts. Registration is not necessary, as […]
Constant @ Making Matters 29.04.2019
Contribution to the symposium Making Matters organised by the Critical Making consortium: "Constant is committed to collaborative situations that generate proximate critiques of and through techno-praxis. Twice a year the association initiates a temporary research lab to which participants from all over the world are invited to contribute. The Techno-Galactic Software Observatory and Networks With […]