Contributors

Viral : Imagina 19.11.2020
Algolit will present an online lecture and workshop on VIRAL:IMAGINA, a Mexican platform for i-literature. The topic of the workshop will be an algoliterary exercise based on the Levenhstein Distance, an algorithm that is used in spellcheckers. The spoken language will be Spanish. - Algolit
Levenhstein Distance 19.11.2020
Algolit will meet on Wednesday 25-11 to talk about future projects and ideas, and to prepare a presentation and workshop about 'the Levenhstein Distance' for VIRAL:IMAGINA, a Mexican platform on i-literature. Algolit is a workgroup around FLOSS literature and code, they organise regular meetings following the Oulipo principle. There is no need for programming knowledge, […]
Collective Conditions Reader (update) 30.10.2020
This reader is an evolving companion to Collective Conditions, a worksession held in November 2019 in Brussels. Whether you prefer to read, watch or listen, this compilation offers different lines of thinking for non-divisive ways of doing “complex collectivity”. It contains materials from trans*feminist collectives on ally-ship, non-violent communication, score-making, anti-colonial and intersectional activism, but […]
17 Footfall amulets that are actually worth the stampede 15.10.2020
Alex Zakkas and Kurt Tichy are invited by nadine (WAB meeting #11 ) to give a talk about their ongoing research on wireless tracking of mobile phones in public space; a surveillance practice that seems to connect shop windows with crowd management, pigeon flight paths and dropped waffles. Zakkas and Tichy have been looking into […]
Littérature et Numérique 17.09.2020
Algolit is taking part in the exhibition 'Littérature et Numérique' in Maison du Livre in Brussels with 3 different installations: L'algolitérateur, La Voix au chapitre and Greffer des arbres. Digitization and algorithms are opening up new ways of writing. Will the architecture of the narrative free itself from linearity? Are stories going to write themselves? […]
Dear student, teacher, worker in an educational institution, 02.09.2020
A letter from Constant to everyone facing on-line teaching. Let's learn together how to do technology differently! - And more...
Looking for inyambo 02.09.2020
Opening: FRIDAY 25th September, 18:00-22:00, Constant This installation tells the story of a modest quest; looking for something while being unsure whether it actually exists. It is an attempt to navigate the past, present and future despite geographic and linguistic other/non-place. Slowly coming to terms with permanent misplacing. Looking for inyambo is part of Parcours […]
Care as solidarity 02.09.2020
Constant activates a research trajectory on Care as solidarity with DeBuren, Het TheaterFestival and KVS. Recent and not-so-recent societal events and configurations urge us to understand the implications of care and its means of formation across various dynamic networks. Questioning, doing and reflecting will define the different modes of action shaping the trajectory Care as […]
Authors of the future @ Piksel Cyber Salon @ Ars Electronica 01.09.2020
Constant presents the project Authors of the future in the exhibition Copy Paste that is curated by Antonio Roberts and was first shown as part of this years Piksel festival in Norway. Now it is planted in the electronic Kepplers Garden program of Ars Electronica as AEGardenBERGEN The full timetable is here. On Saturday 12 […]
Open Call: Bureaucracksy 16.07.2020
Between 7 and 12 December 2020, Constant organises the work-session Bureaucracksy. This work-session investigates the governance of techno-social systems through the prism of bureaucracy. The execution of rules is an essential element of computation, of digital infrastructures, and of the societies that they operate with. Critical practices of listing, naming, filtering, tool making, care and […]