Boulevard du Jubilé, next to café ‘Duc du Brabant’ On the Jubelfeestlaan / Boulevard du Jubilé, cars often park in front of private garage doors. For the local residents this is annoying: they can not exit their cars from their garages. Some of them have found ways to emphasize the applicable parking restriction. Here’s an example: An [...] […]
The Theora codec is derived from the proprietary VP3 codec, released into the public domain by On2 Technologies. Google has now bought the On2 company. The Free Software Foundation has published an open letter to Google: “With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has [. […]
After installing Ubuntu 9.04 from scratch, I have had some bad flashbacks to the zillion times this problem occurred before in previous sytem installations. Capturing in Kino / dvgrab does not work because the /dev/raw1394 module is not loaded and I, as a user, have no write permissions. I found the following post helpful. It explains how [...] […]
“Hello! You and 472 other people have the chance to recreate Star Wars: A New Hope. Below is the entire movie split up into 15 second clips. Click on one of the scenes to claim it, film it, and upload it. You can have up to three scenes! When we’re all done, we’ll stitch it [...] […]
In the framework of "The human condition in the digital age" organized by Banlieues and CFS. Using the game Yoogle! as a starting point, we will analyze the traces we left behind while surfing and what can be done with them. WithMichel Cleempoel (Constantvzw), Nicolas Hanoteau (Banlieues asbl) and Christian Vandiepenbeeck (CFS asbl) - Yoogle! / […]
Nicolas Malevé, Constant member, will take part in Icarus film maker (or the history of a vertical movement of the sight), an afternoon of reflections about the history of aerial view through art history, through the histories of thought, techniques and sciences, war imagery, cartography and of course, cinema. - Towards / Lecture […]
Constant member Nicolas Malevé takes part in the panel discussion L'image écartelée entre mémoire collective, réappropiation et exploitation. The panel is part of the professional day with the title: Main basse sur les archives ? taking place in the framework of the documentary festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris. - Active Archives / Seminar […]
A publication accompanying the project Routes and Routines, Hasselt Network walks. Published by Constant vzw and Z33. Authors: Liesbeth Huybrechts, Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Peter Westenberg. http://routes-routines.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/ctt_routes-routines-interieur-small.pdf […]
Balearic Routes + Routines proposed a group action in the center of Palma on 18 october 2008. Departing from the hectic Plaça Major, we walked with 10 people through the shopping center, scanning electro magnetic fields, sniffing video surveillance and wifi TV, amplifying distorted sounds from the souls of our feet, filming with camera [...] […]
In the framework of the Open Source Architecture module of the KHLIM Genk Media design course, students followed a workshop around the soon to be redeveloped train station of Hasselt. Loosely based on the work of the delicious Francis Alys, many elegant situationist performances, the exquisite Sophie Calle and lets not forget the delightful Christopher [...] […]
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