Contributors

Pains Perdus - Verloren Broodjes on Mastodon 28.11.2023
With the central position that commercial social media is gaining, Constant wanted to do a push to support federated social media and has re-activated its Mastodon account. The account is hosted on the Lurk server with the handle @constant. As we are an organisation that engages a lot with editions, versioning and threads from our […]
Constant joins the Translocal Pipas Club 28.11.2023
Moved by the intensification of the violence brought on Palestinian people by the state of Israel, and by the many mobilizations happening around us, Constant has reflected on different modes to engage with the current situation that could make our solidarity practical. We started from our own impasse, being faced once again with how proprietary […]
Weft: Contaminated Bodies 28.11.2023
Chloë Janssens was invited to contribute to Constant's ever-growing documentation with a weft titled Contaminated Bodies. The wefts and warps introduce a specific way of writing, indexing and creating collections. They make use of etherpads (pages for on-line collaborative editing) to connect heterogeneous elements in the Constant galaxy. We hope you will enjoy reading Chloë's […]
Ethical digital technology at school... is it possible? 27.11.2023
For several months now, the asbl Tactic has been supporting higher education establishments in their transition to free and ethical tools for their digital infrastructure. To coincide with the publication of the next issue of the magazine Curseurs on the theme of 'education and digital technology', we propose to look back at the challenges, difficulties […]
Constant_V: Reflecting in the Debris of High Tech 16.10.2023
The Vitrine of Constant will become for two months a public interface to address the ongoing struggle(s) to counter the depletion of community resources brought by BigHigh Tech Cloud corporations. ooooo resizes, relays and re-transmits hopefully + consensually, in transversal solidarity, the words of the feminist "cloud to crowd' strike network. Dreaming in The Ruins […]
SPLINT card game 12.10.2023
For the next five years of its program, Constant is asking: What could/should Speculative, Libre and Intersectional Technologies (SPLINT) do? To start finding the language and open up our thinking around these questions a deck of cards, the SPLINT cards, were created by Constant and allies. This first version of the card game was tried […]
Weak Signaaal postcards 12.10.2023
The Weak Signaaal sessions have their documentation in the form of postcards! Thanks to the beautiful work of oddd who designed the poster made of 8 detachable postcards The postcards gather references from each of the 4 sessions of the Weak Signaaal series: A goose from the Marais Wiels speaks the Jargon from Ballades Infidèles, […]
Sharing Techno-Disobedient stories 10.10.2023
Constant invites you to a moment of sharing and thinking together. We will discuss practices that arose during a collective research week around Techno-disobedience that was organised in collaboration with esc medien kunst labor in Graz, Austria in October: https://constantvzw.org/site/Open-call-Techno-disobedience-worksession-Graz,3774.html?lang=en The Brussels based artists who joined, brought back a number of 'talking pieces' that will […]
Age of Dust activation 03.10.2023
In the framework of the installation in the window of Constant, The Age of Dust, we organise a sharing moment in which some of the tools and strategies that were developed during its inspirational workshop will be re-activated. We'll feel some sensors, sound, proximity, wetness, flame, light .. and recall their ritual functions. In the […]
Mastodon: Putting people back at the heart of social networking 26.09.2023
A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter (now X) in 2022, more and more people and groups are looking for alternatives to the famous microblogging network, which has become the plaything of a billionaire with libertarian ideals and close ties to the far right. One of these alternatives is Mastodon, a free and decentralised alternative, […]