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Bye Bye Binary / feminist strike 23.02.2021
On Monday, March 8 we stop. Together with Bye Bye Binary, Constant joins the feminist strike to call attention to the difficult conditions under which people* keep things going in the street, at school, at home, on call, in the hospital, on the server, at the distribution center, in the supermarket... We strike in solidarity […]
RDI 2: Speculating on networked interdependencies and relationality 19.01.2021
Reclaiming Digital Infrastructures is a research collaboration with KASK School of Arts in Gent taking serious the question how to understand digital networks and communication tools as an integral part of the art education. The Speculating on networked interdependencies and relationality session invites participants to think about networked sociability online. Inspired by the Fediverse * […]
DiVersions v2 06.01.2021
Second version of a digital and printed publication with new and reworked contributions by among others Rahel Aima, Anaïs Berck, Gert Biesta, Z. Blace, Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Cristina Cochior, Sarah Kaerts, Anne Laforet, Phil Langley, Marie Lécrivain, Nicolas Malevé, Elodie Mugrefya, Zoumana Meïté, Mia Melvær, Martino Morandi, Michael Murtaugh, Colm o'Neill, Hari Prasad Adhikari-Sacré, Kris […]
Infrastructure solidarity: a conversation with Miriyam Aouragh 06.01.2021
A conversation about current and future technological infrastructures for solidarity. Elodie Mugrefya, Femke Snelting, Wendy Van Wynsberghe of Constant, speak with media anthropologist and activist Miriyam Aouragh about the relations between political activism and technological criticism. How to organise for social change on-line when Tech Giants profit from our interactions? In the context of (Staying) […]
Listening session: 'Le sanglier et le papillon' + 'La mue' - cancelled! 04.01.2021
Unfortunately, this listening session has been cancelled due to Covid19 measures. The documentaries Le sanglier et le papillon and La mue by Jen Debauche can be listened to in the window of the office of Constant. See also: https://constantvzw.org/site/Expo-De-rui-Het-zwijn-en-de-vlinder.html?lang=en You are invited to join a (Corona proof) collective listening session of the two radio documentaries: […]
The boar and the butterfly - The moult 04.01.2021
Two radio-documentaries by Jen Debauche, "Le Sanglier et le papillon" and "La Mue" can be listened to in the window of the Constant office. Language: French "I was working for the European Commission, I was leading a seminar in Portugal, I slept 3 hours a day. Instead of going to my office one morning, I […]
RDI 1: Screen No Deal 30.12.2020
Reclaiming Digital Infrastructures is a research collaboration with KASK School of Arts in Gent taking serious the question how to understand digital networks and communication tools as an integral part of the art education. In this first issue, Monday Readings invites you to an online active and reflective session. Monday Readings: Screen No Deal Monday […]
Reclaiming Digital Infrastructures 30.12.2020
What we learn and how we learn are closely related. Now that digital learning seems to have become a new norm, it is important to be able to read and understand the digital tools that we use and allow artistic knowledge to play a role in this. This collaboration with KASK, School of Arts in […]
Library encounters of the third kind: Brussels Edition 07.12.2020
This event is dedicated to different projects that reflect on the practices of digital catalogs, classification systems and other forms of systematic organization of knowledge. It will make a moment, in the form of an informal conversation, to consider together the less visible but fundamental aspects of libraries and librarian practice. Special attention will be […]
Warp and Weft Wintercollection 2020 04.12.2020
Algorithms and Text, Slippery Knowledge, Collective Hospitality, Pattern Recognition ... this year's Warp and Weft collection activates the mesohyl of Constant's on-line ecosystem and threads tracks through sounds, videos and images hosted on our servers. Warps invite you to navigate to and through documentation, media and notes. Wefts are thematic constellations that establish relationships between […]