Algoliterary Encounter 23.09.2017
In the framework of Saison Numérique the Maison du Livre opens its space for Algolit during three days in a row. The group presents lectures, workshops and a small exhibition about the narrative perspective of neural networks. Neural networks are selflearning algorithms based on statistics. They often function as opaque 'blackbox' algorithms, while they shape […]
Four freedoms for research and experiment 04.09.2017
Gijs de Heij, Manetta Berends and An Mertens will propose a workshop on the notion of public domain when it comes to machine learning practises, in the framework of 'Summerschool #2 Making Public Domain' in Middelheim Museum in Antwerp. Read more about the program on https://www.makingpublicdomain.be - 4. And more... / Workshop, Free, Libre and […]
Books with an Attitude 03.08.2017
During the Summer Books with an Attitude, a series of Constant's books, will be on display. You can also find an overview on the website: http://www.books.constantvzw.org/ Books with an Attitude are published by Constant, made with 100% Free and Open Source Software and published under open content licenses. This is why they deserve the hallmark […]
Relearn 2017 - call for participation 02.08.2017
This summer Relearn is travelling to Rotterdam. After the organisers collected track proposals in the previous weeks, they are now looking for participants to make this week of relearning happen (29/08 - 02/09). Relearn is a collective learning experiment with as many teachers as it has participants. It is motivated by the possibility to displace […]
Open Call 27.07.2017
Transmarcations experiments with ways to chart heres, wheres and others. This worksession situates itself at the crossing of technolgies with geographies, life's courses, bodies, terrains and deplacements. Transmarcations is interested in the complexity that emerges when cartography meets bodies in transition. By bodies in transition we mean migrating bodies as well as bodies that engage […]
European Union 12.07.2017
Iterations http://www.constantvzw.org/site/-Iterations-.html?lang=en - 6. Support
.ORG 03.07.2017
An Mertens and Sarah Garcin will take part in .ORG, a 5 days / 5 nights residency of a collective work time that has been proposed to 50 persons, with discussions, creations, writing, hybridations, making , destroying… 1 open space of potentialities, 1 space-time, 1 isolated mountain place. 50 people gathered for their commitment in […]
QUANTIFY WHOLEHEARTEDLY SAINT-GILLES! 30.06.2017
In the frame of the installation QUANTIFY WHOLEHEARTEDLY in the window of Constant, Natacha Roussel and the Samedies organise a feminist workshop of design of environments of personal quantification tools. This workshop proposes a reflection on the measurement of bodies. This pervasive phenomenon offers many applications as a contribution to our well-being and takes on […]
Possible Bodies: Imagined Mishearings 27.06.2017
This summer, the Possible Bodies inventory travels to Hangar (Barcelona) to mutate with local affinity networks and communities of concern. During a two-week residency, the collective research will focus on biomedical 3D imaging and how it models, scans and renders "real bodies". Possible Bodies is concerned by the merging of pharmacopornographic, Hollywood and military industries. […]
The Document Transformed 21.06.2017
Masterclass with Adva Zakai (Thursday) and presentation (Saturday) on the BioVision Hierarchy file format. BioVision Hierarchy (.bvh) is an ASCII file format used to import data from various motion capture systems into 3D-animation software. It was developed in the mid-nineties and remains one of the most commonly used file-formats for transposing movement captured in physical […]