Constant is a non-profit organization based in Brussels since 1997 and active in the fields of art, media, and technology. Constant is inspired by the principles of copyleft, Free/Libre + Open Source Software while formulating its own critic towards it. Constant collaborates with artists, activists, programmers, academics, designers, and more, sometimes briefly and other times for many years. Constant works with feminist servers, situated publishing, active archives, extitutional networks, (re)learning situations, hackable devices, performative protocols, solidary infrastructures, and other spongy practices to stake out paths towards speculative, libre, intersectional technologies.
Elodie Mugrefya (Constant) and Femke Snelting (Constant/TITiPI) are transmediale residents in the framework of an online residency programme funded by Wallonie-Bruxelles International. During the residency, they initiated a network of networks, bringing together artists, theorists, designers, researchers and activists whose diverse practices operate within cultural organisations based across Europe, including Constant, Varia, TITiPI and the Digital Discomfort Working group (DDWG). Together, they explored modes of resisting the financialised, extractive modes of Big Tech, whose infrastructures are deeply implicated in military and carceral operations, reinforce historical racist structures, and support new forms of colonisation through digitised oppression.