Iterations talks and performance 30.09.2019
Iterations is a collaborative trajectory that investigates collective artistic practice in a digital context. On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Operating | Exploitation in Bozar Lab, an afternoon with reflective inputs is organised. With : Melanie Sehgal (Professor of Literary, Scientific and Media Studies at the European University of Viadrina, Frankfurt), Giulia […]
Heritage collection data: Are 'facts' static? 30.09.2019
Debate organised by VIAA/PACKED in the context of DiVersions. Metadata of museal collections are generally thought of as static, but in reality they often include a degree of uncertainty or are subject to change. Therefore throughout time, new versions of datasets come into being, which may or may not be stored or documented. When a […]
Algoliterary plans 25.09.2019
A new season has arrived! In the morning we brainstorm on what & when for 2019/2020. In the afternoon we will explore one of the ideas more concretely. People who are interested to join later on, but cannot be there for this first meeting, can send their ideas through the mailinglist. Algolit is a workgroup […]
Networks of One's Own: three takes on taking care 24.09.2019
This weekend, our friends at Varia in Rotterdam launch the 2nd edition of Networks Of One's Own, a para-nodal periodic publication that is itself collectively written in a network. Each of the episodes is thought of as the ‘release' of a specific software stack, contextualised in its specific practice. The series aims to document a […]
Iterations Residency 2 19.09.2019
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 in Brussels. This group residency is in preparation of the exhibition […]
DiVersions: installations + publication 18.09.2019
Opening and publication launch: Thursday 10 October 18:00 - 21:00 DiVersions experiments with online collections of cultural institutions as sites for decolonial and intersectional practice. Inspired by the way 'versioning' functions in networked software tools, seven interactive media installations and a publication explore how online collections can accommodate radically different, and sometimes opposing perspectives. A […]
Open Scores: Collaboration guidelines 01.09.2019
Open Scores: how to program the commons? is a group exhibition that brings together 16 practices through which artists articulate their own forms of (digital) commons. From online archives, to digital tools/infrastructure and educational formats, the projects envision a (post-)digital culture in which notions of collaboration, free access to knowledge, sustainable use of shared resources […]
Authors of the future: Re-imagining Copyleft 27.08.2019
Conventional intellectual property law binds authors and their hybrid contemporary practices in a framework of assumed ownership and individualism. It conceives creations as original works, making collective, networked practices difficult to fit. Within that legal and ideological framework, Copyleft, Open Content Licenses or Free Culture Licensing introduced a different view of authorship, opening up the […]
Collaboration guidelines 26.08.2019
The collaboration guidelines assembled by and for Constant set bouncy delimitations that curve, bend and resituate yet they need to offer protection when needed. In the next months, the window will be turned into a public drafting sheet for these guidelines. Michael Murtaugh developed a colourful LED display which runs through changes in the guidelines […]
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 […]