April 30, 2012
Constant,
Data traces,
Geometry of power,
Publication,
Surveillance
The Piet Zwart Institute Master in Media Design and Communication department launches its new publication with Mute publishing: Sniff, Scrape, Crawl… on privacy, surveillance and our shadowy data-double. It includes contributions from: Birgit Bachler, Seda Guerses, Inge Hoonte, Men in Grey, Julian Oliver & Danja Vasiliev, Michelle Teran, Steve Rushton, Discrete Dialogue Network, Amy Suo Wu and Constant member Nicolas (…)
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Yoogle!
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Surveillance,
Data traces,
Publication,
Geometry of power
January 31, 2012
Constant,
Presentation,
Publication,
Variable,
Website
Presentation of V/J12 e-publication in Constant Variable On the occasion of the Verbinding/Jonctions 13, Donatella Portoghese, Nicolas Malevé, Stephanie Villayphiou, Alex Leray and Gijs de Heij presented “By Data We Mean”, an on-line edition of texts, images and reflections that followed from the previous edition of Jonctions/Verbindingen 12. This publication collects the different texts that were produced for the lectures and presentation of VJ12. It also constitutes a platform for (…)
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Verbindingen / Jonctions
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Presentation,
Publication,
Website,
Variable
December 15, 2011
Constant,
Exhibition,
protocol,
Publication,
Verbindingen / Jonctions 13
As part of the Artefact Festival in Stuk Leuven, organised around ‘The Social Contract’, Constant will present Connection Protocols. Not only people but also bots, search engines and spiders abide laws and agreements. Whether we email, surf or chat … rules and regulations are having an effect on our daily lives and on the way we move in public space. Which social behavior do governments, companies, regulators project on machines? What is the social contract written into standards and (…)
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Verbindingen / Jonctions
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Publication,
Exhibition,
Protocol,
Verbindingen / Jonctions 13
August 30, 2011
Constant,
Open Hardware,
Publication
Last spring Mathieu Gabiot designed and made 5 pieces of furniture for the Constant workplace. He conceptualized a large working table, 4 benches (in three variations) and a light fixture. The series was cut and assembled on site within a week, with materials from a local DIY store. After an intense research moment, Mathieu decided to put his furniture under a Free Art License, so feel free to copy, modify, improve and redistribute the design. The plans and manuals are now online, zipped (…)
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And more…
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Publication,
Open Hardware
May 30, 2011
Constant,
Intellectual property,
Publication
An Mertens, member of Constant, contributes with an article to Verz!n (jaargang 6,3), a magazine about writing for amateur authors. She develops the idea why it could be interesting for amateur writers to start publishing their work under a free license and what license is best to choose for.
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Adashboard (for fiction)
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Publication,
Intellectual property
November 30, 2010
Constant,
Publication
Naked on Pluto is a Multiplayer Text Adventure on Facebook. In paralell to its development, Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk publish a series of interviews investigating how exposed we are on social networks, and how our data are being used. Michel Cleempoel and Nicolas Malevé involved in the Constant’s Yoogle! project have responded to their questionaire.
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Yoogle!
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Publication
September 23, 2010
Collaborative,
Constant,
Counter cartographies,
Intellectual property,
Publication
Cartography as a common good is a contribution by Rafaella Houlstan-Hasaerts (La Cambre) and Nicolas Malevé, member of Constant, to the book Human Cities, Celebrating Public Space, edited by Barbara Golicnik Marusic, et al, (Brussels: Stichting Kunstboek, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia and Promateria, 2010, p. 47-51).
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Towards
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Counter cartographies,
Collaborative,
Publication,
Intellectual property
September 7, 2010
Constant,
Publication
Constant member Peter Westenberg co-wrote with Marcos García (Medialab Prado, Spain) and Catherine Lenoble (Crealab, France) a text on the future of the labs as a contribution to this collection of essays and statements that challenge and debate future strategies and forms of the laboratory (or media lab). Stemming from the international expert meeting The Future of the Lab held in Eindhoven in 2009, the book highlights some of the issues raised during those sessions and continues the (…)
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And more…
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Publication
April 27, 2010
Body and software,
Constant,
Publication,
Software
Objscrs or Object Score Notation is the software that co-performed in Kaleidoscope during VJ12, Nov 2010.
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Adashboard (for fiction)
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Body and software,
Software,
Publication
January 29, 2010
Constant,
Current,
Publication
Tracks in electr(on)ic fields is a new Constant publication with texts and images documenting the 10th Verbindingen/Jonctions festival. This publication contains contributions in English, French and Dutch and was edited by Constant featuring Clementine Delahaut, Laurence Rassel and Emma Sidgwick. Its design by OSP won a 2009 Fernand Baudin prize. Printed copies (332 pages, color): € 10,— The pdf-version and sources can be found here: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/sources/vj10/ To order (…)
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Verbindingen / Jonctions
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Current,
Publication
July 2, 2009
Constant,
Cooking,
Publication
Puerto is a hospitable place in the centre of Brussels where homeless people can find help if they want to live independently. Every Monday they are welcome to come and eat a three course meal, prepared by a volunteer, at an affordable price. Together with these volunteers and Puerto guests, OSP wrote, designed, translated and illustrated a precious cookbook. Buy this book with more than 70 easy, cheap and tasty recipes for 12,50 at Passaporta (Antoine Dansaertstraat 46, Brussels), send (…)
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Open source publishing
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Publication,
Cooking
July 2, 2009
Constant,
Cooking,
Publication
Puerto is a hospitable place in the centre of Brussels where homeless people can find help if they want to live independently. Every Monday they are welcome to come and eat a three course meal, prepared by a volunteer, at an affordable price. Together with these volunteers and Puerto guests, OSP wrote, designed, translated and illustrated a precious cookbook. Buy this book with more than 70 easy, cheap and tasty recipes for 12,50 at Passaporta (Antoine Dansaertstraat 46, Brussels), send (…)
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Open source publishing
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Publication,
Cooking
May 25, 2009
Collaborative,
Constant,
Publication,
Science-fiction
The catalogue of the festival Zemos98 remixes the texts of the interventions of the different participants during ‘Encuentros Regreso al futuro’. The book includes the presentation by Laurence Rassel, Conciencia Multiple, mixed with echos of other lectures. The book reads as a collective narration composed from contributions by Rubén Díaz, Pedro G. Romero, Wu Ming, José Luis de Vicente, Chiu Longina, Virginia Villaplana, Laurence Rassel, Henry Jenkins, Felipe G. Gil, and many others. The book (…)
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And more…
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Collaborative,
Science-fiction,
Publication
May 25, 2009
Collaborative,
Constant,
Publication,
Science-fiction
The catalogue of the festival Zemos98 remixes the texts of the interventions of the different participants during ‘Encuentros Regreso al futuro’. The book includes the presentation by Laurence Rassel, Conciencia Multiple, mixed with echos of other lectures. The book reads as a collective narration composed from contributions by Rubén Díaz, Pedro G. Romero, Wu Ming, José Luis de Vicente, Chiu Longina, Virginia Villaplana, Laurence Rassel, Henry Jenkins, Felipe G. Gil, and many others. The book (…)
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And more…
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Collaborative,
Science-fiction,
Publication
May 25, 2009
Collaborative,
Constant,
Publication,
Science-fiction
The catalogue of the festival Zemos98 remixes the texts of the interventions of the different participants during ‘Encuentros Regreso al futuro’. The book includes the presentation by Laurence Rassel, Conciencia Multiple, mixed with echos of other lectures. The book reads as a collective narration composed from contributions by Rubén Díaz, Pedro G. Romero, Wu Ming, José Luis de Vicente, Chiu Longina, Virginia Villaplana, Laurence Rassel, Henry Jenkins, Felipe G. Gil, and many others. The book (…)
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And more…
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Collaborative,
Science-fiction,
Publication