MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM

C O N S TA N T
A Fortstraat 5
1 060 Brussel
T +32 (0)2 539 24 67
E info@constant
vzw.com
W constantvzw.org
Constant is a non-profit association for art and
media. It is based in Brussels and has been active
since 1997. Constant operates as a networked
laboratory for a group of artists, designers and
researchers who are involved in art projects,
networks, and interdisciplinary collaborations,
generating a reflection about network culture.
Constant emphasizes the importance of collaboration and exchange as a
source for creativity and production. It develops radio works, electronic music,
database projects and addresses questions about open source, free software,
cyberfeminism, social interaction and participation, copyleft and copyright
alternatives and the conditions of cultural work. The activities of the workplace
are supported by the idea that networks between a number of cultural actors
or producers are able to shed new light on the conditions of work and make an
analysis of the transfer of digital information necessary.
N I C O L A S M A L E V É
Since 1998 Nicolas Malevé, multimedia artist, has been an active member of the
association Constant. As such, he has taken part in organizing various activities
to do with alternatives to copyrights, such as Copy.cult & The Original Si(g)n,
held in 2000. He has been developing multimedia projects and web applications
for cultural organisations. His research work is currently focused on information
structures, metadata and the semantic web and the means to visually represent
them. Nicolas Malevé works in collaborative projects like Deshabillez-vous and
Radioswap. He is co-moderator for Nettime-fr, a mailinglist for net.critique,
media-activism and net.art.
A N M E R T E N S
An Mertens has been working since 2006 as an artist and writer. In her work
she experiments with writing and storytelling, on the web, on paper, or in a
performative context. In every creative venture she looks for a combination of
form, content, material with a focus on certain aspects of the literary tradition,
such as linearity in the fragmented reality of the web, the richness and the
limitations of collective authorship, playing with time and place through the
use of programming languages, live-writing, a blog as a novel. She developed
projects in collaboration with Shift Space, Mangrove-Tentactile, Bolwerk, Bronks
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