Constant @ Making Matters 29.04.2019
Contribution to the symposium Making Matters organised by the Critical Making consortium: "Constant is committed to collaborative situations that generate proximate critiques of and through techno-praxis. Twice a year the association initiates a temporary research lab to which participants from all over the world are invited to contribute. The Techno-Galactic Software Observatory and Networks With […]
Noises I could not ignore 25.04.2019
“As a person immensely fascinated by accents and sounds, I have never imagined that one day I would discuss the negative impacts of sounds in my life.” From 24 May until 22 September, Yared Yilma's soundscapes will come to life in the window of Constant. You are welcome to the opening on Thursday 23 May […]
Slow Fermissage 25.04.2019
Wicked Technologies is a project considering the ethics and aesthetics of fermentation in relation to artistic research. This project is developed by Sara Manente, a choreographer, performance artist and amateur fermentress, in collaboration with drawing artist Gunbike Erdemir. On Wednesday 8 May from 15:00 until 18:00 the artists will be present in the office of […]
Release & Publish often 25.04.2019
The Algolit exhibition Data Workers in Mundaneum in Mons has come to an end. Everything was up and running. And it was great. In order to be able to have afterlives, forks and other remixing deviations, we will dedicate one session to documenting the exhibition: gathering code, adding comments and licenses, publishing pictures, reorganising the […]
Naive Bayes raconte 27.03.2019
An Mertens experiments with forms that reveal the identity of algorithms. For this lecture-performance she takes on the "Bayesian naive classifier", an algorithm widely used to sort spam in our mailboxes, to analyze feelings on social media, but also to define whether a text is written by a woman or a man. The performance is […]
Iterations IV, esc medien kunst labor 26.03.2019
ITERATIONS is committed to the future of artistic collaboration in digitally networked contexts. Multidisciplinary artists and practitioners are brought together to create speculative works that feed the imagination of possible modes of artistic collaboration. Through a series of hands-on residencies and discursive exhibitions, ITERATIONS provides situations in which artists collectively experiment with new ways of […]
Feminist Fermentation Reading Session 26.03.2019
From microperformativity to compost politics, and from the microbial commons to the microontologies of sex: How to think with live cultures of fermentation? Sara, Livia and Femke have collected texts from feminist and queer theory that reflect on microbial modes of togetherness and the complexities of inter-species life. On April 4, we will read, taste […]
The SNCBench 25.03.2019
The SNCBench is the latest in a series of free objects designed and created by the collective Libre Objet. It completes a line of street furniture that started with the uHbench a few years ago. Commissioned by Constant to replace the old uHbench that was made during a workshop in 2015, the SNCBench follows the […]
Networks with an attitude: Stories 02 25.03.2019
Stories, presentations and reports of what happened during part two of the worksession: 'Long live the Internets' and a booklaunch. Booklaunch 'Technological Sovereignty' translation to Dutch + discussion We deserve to have other technologies, better than those we currently have and known as 'Information and Communication Technologies'. This book reports on the psychological, social, political, […]
On airwaves and in data packets: a Network Jam 25.03.2019
Listen to a Networks With an Attitude contribution on Webgang, a radio show on F/loss culture and technology on radio centraal 106.7 Network Jam in Toitoidrome + S14 Go to one of the two venues to tune in, or check this page on Thursday 11/04 for potential online information https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/networkswithanattitude.jam - Networks with an Attitude