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Wild filmmaking presentation + workshop 10.12.2019
Author-right laws regard audiovisual artworks as being original works, and its creators as isolated individuals. But whom do these laws serve? Many filmmakers position themselves as part of a culture that is social in character and widely networked. It foregrounds collectivity, sharing and doing things together. Furthermore, contemporary digital culture is a culture of copying […]
Designing Constant_V: D-E-A-L 29.11.2019
Every year Constant commissions another designer or design collective using Free, Libre and Open Source tools, to work on the two-monthly flyers for Constant_V. Between 2018 and 2019, we collaborated with D-E-A-L, a Brussels based collective comprised of Quentin Jumelin and Morgane Le Ferec. In their designs, they experimented with different ways to traverse multiple […]
Warp: Authors of the future 26.11.2019
Documentation, readinglist and other materials from Authors of the Future, a studyday on how to re-imagine copyleft licences for collective creative practices. With contributions by Eva Weinmayr, Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Severine Dusollier and Aymeric Mansoux. - And more...
Measured poises, crowd noises 26.11.2019
Measured poises, crowd noises invites you for a walk at the annual Christmas market in the centre of Brussels. Accompanied by the scent of gluhwein and croustillons, we will observe and discuss surveillance techniques that are currently being deployed at Winterpret and other major events in Brussels. Wireless crowd management technologies have become a very […]
kunst is solidair / l'art est solidaire / art is solidary 26.11.2019
Solidary with more different forms of life instead of less, with imagining another future with technology, with an ecological movement that looks beyond their own privileges, with algoliterary experiments and less optimisation, with artists and others who have emigrated to Belgium willingly or involuntarily, with multiple identities and complex collectivities, with people welcoming refugees warmly, […]
Uniform Resource Locator 26.11.2019
In the framework of the exhibition in WIELS, Open Skies, Martino Morandi and Femke Snelting animate a guided tour through the history of URLs. Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), also known as web addresses, specify the location of a resource on a computer network. This once ubiquitous technology for routing between digitally interconnected spaces on the […]
Micropias: poetics of cultural segmentation 24.10.2019
"You close your eyes and you arrive in a future about 200 years from now. The space where you arrive is an empty space, a void." From Thursday 28th November, the poetic sound and video installation by Wedknwyet will catch your eyes in the Constant window. In this installation, WDKY will invite you to fantasize […]
Warp: Networks with an Attitude 21.10.2019
This Warp* documents Networks with an attitude, a worksession (de)centralized around 'The internet is dead' & 'Long live the internets'. Last April, 40 participants explored highly proprietary network structures and their potential future, naval protocols, historical and innovative ways of exchanging information as well as aspects of care, potential and safety. A close reading of […]
Right the Right: Re-imagining copyleft 21.10.2019
Constant will contribute to Right the Right, a three day event about the crisis in copyright. The contribution is a report on Authors of the Future. During this study day we tried to make a start with reimagining copyleft as a decolonial, feminist and collective practice. Right the Right asks questions like, "So in the […]
Iterations #5: Operating / Exploitation 20.10.2019
'Iterations #5: Operating / Exploitation' is a collaborative work with inputs by: Mia Melvaer, Maxime Stifinner, Zoumana Meïté, Norbert Math, Iris Torruella Segura, Yoan Robin, Rosa Llop, Geraldine Juarez, Martin Rumori, Luis Rodil-Fernández. Exhibition: 08/11 - 24/11/2019 Tuesday -> Sunday : 10:00 -> 18:00 Opening: 07/11 : 18:00 Iterations talks and performance: 07/11 : 14:00 […]