Iterations # 2: Open call for a research and collaborative artistic production residency in Hangar 13.06.2018
Hangar launches an open call to participate in the second iteration of the European project Iterations. The call will select two artists: one artist living in Barcelona and another artist living outside Barcelona. The selected artists will join a group of other four artists and together will develop a collaborative art project during a 15 […]
Naïve Bayes 30.05.2018
In machine learning Naive Bayes is a simple probabilistic classifier that is widely applied for spam filtering and sentiment analysis. During this session we first look at its history, its application in daily life decisions, as well as how this classifier can be used in Python. Next, we will use this technique as a recipe […]
Somatopologies 29.05.2018
Opening: Wednesday 4 July, 18:00 For the summer edition of Constant_V, Possible Bodies feat. Spec presents Somatopologies, materials for a movie-in-the-making. In the vitrine you will find 3D-renderings of diverse densities, wondering about the regimes of truth that converge in volumetric biomedical images. Here, a coalition between tomography and topology is at work to align […]
Performance: Zoumana Méïté 28.05.2018
How do ageing bodies keep each other and their technological partners company? What account do they give of their generational specificities? Can we develop ecosystems that transcend time and scale in solidarity? At the closing of the worksession Ageing companions / Geprogrammeerde veroudering / Les cyborgs vieillissants, Zoumana Méïté performs with electromagnetic devices to explore […]
Interfacing the law: XPPL 28.05.2018
Festive launch of XPPL: Xperimental Potential Pirate Library, Xperimental Private-Public Liaison, Xperimental Pretentious Performative Labor, Xperimental Platform for Potential Legality, Xperimental Post-Public Library. "XPPL is a space for potential pirate librarianship aimed at people who are studying the field of media culture, or as we like to call them: knowledge comrades. This library gathers all […]
Pianorama Extra 24.05.2018
Life limited electronics link the life cycle of humans, animals and machines; growing older biologically intersects with the lifespan of pacemakers and defibrillators. How do ageing bodies and their technological partners keep each other company, now and in the future? Film programme within the framework of senior cinema Pianorama. With care robots, digital grandmothers and […]
New textualities 22.05.2018
Catherine Lenoble and An Mertens present Algolit and their activities during this study day at La Cambre. - Algolit / Lecture
Close Encounters: Conditions for the work 23.04.2018
Close Encounters is a series of presentations and public conversations organized by the a.pass Research Centre. These informal events are designed to take the time to meet, listen and evaluate an idea, a project, a research, or a specific point in a research trajectory. What to study? What to research? What to practice? For this […]
From words to numbers using tf-idf 20.04.2018
Algolit, the workgroup around FLOSS literature and code, organises a meeting on term frequency–inverse document frequency (tf-idf), a numerical statistic that reflects how important a word is to a document in a collection or corpus. It is often used as a weighting factor in searches of information retrieval, text mining, and user modeling. Yet another […]
Artist residency: bolwerK 20.04.2018
bolwerK, combines in the project Crystelling parascientific history, anthropology, and technology to familiarize ourselves to the electromagnetic spectrum and to how radio and farming metaphors intertwine. Marthe van Dessel and some other artists from the bolwerK galaxy will run an open lab in Constant Studio in WTC from 22 April to 3 May. They will […]