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An image of a workshop about Open Content or something similar organised by Constant

http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/Cqrrelations/IMG_1464
http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/Cqrrelations/IMG_1227
Constant, 'Cqrrelations', "Poetry to the statistician, science to the dissident, detox to the data-addict" (Worksession), De Buren, 2015, Foto: Constant, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/VJ14/IMG_8389
http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/VJ14/IMG_8391
Constant, collective performance of 'My Home is my server' with Bolwerk at 'Verbindingen/Jonctions 14: Are You Being Served' (feminist review of experimental server technologies), Variable, 2014, Foto: Constant, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/Relearn-2015/P1016696
http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/Relearn-2015/P1016695
Relearn summerschool, Zinneke, 2015, Foto: Constant, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en

http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/Libre-Objets-D-vi-s-workshop/IMG_3134
http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/Libre-Objets-D-vi-s-workshop/IMG_3149
Libre Objet, 'Diverted Objects', forking objects that have a common root with a second one (workshop), 2014, Foto: Constant, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/Objetos-comunes/Fietswiel_schommel_Madrid_01
Constant, Grigri Pixel and Medialab Prado, 'Objects in common' explored other ways of doing by taking common objects as a point of departure (worksession), Medialab Prado, 2015, Foto: Constant, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en

An image of a workshop about Libre Fonts or something similar by OSP

http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/hoppe-pume-ton-og-image.png
OSP and students ready to draw letterforms at the workshop 'Up Pen Down – Huppe Plume Tonne', ÉSAD Grenoble Valence, 2015, Foto: OSP © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en

A group shot of the permanent members of Constant [we'll propose to add one or two more workshop/worksession images instead]

http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/Relearn-2015/P1016717_groupphoto
Class of 2015, Relearn summerschool, supported by Constant, OSP, F/LAT and others, Zinneke, 2015
http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/Libre-Graphics-Meeting-London/lgm_2016_group_photo_stairs
Participants of the Libre Graphics Meeting, Constant contributes to the event since 2007, Westminster University, London, 2016
http://video.constantvzw.org/VJ14/tableauVivant/Hostingservice-Tableau-Vivant.jpg
Hosts and guests for 'Verbindingen/Jonctions 14: Are You Being Served', Recyclart, 2014

Biographies
I imagine that it is not important for Constant to publish detailed bios / cvs by the members, but as the rest of the interviewed artist will be featured this way, I wanted to ask if you could send me this type of information. Perhaps of you two, An and Femke, including a list of activities over the past years from Constant. At the end of the interviews there will be a box with "biographical data".

An Mertens experiments with writing and storytelling on the web, on paper, or in a performative context. She explores the materialities of creating stories in a digital context, with a focus on collaborative practises and Free Software tools. She co-initiated Algolit, a workgroup around i-literature, code and texts. This group inspired Algorithmic Storytellers, her current research on the narrative perspective of algorithms, and specifically self-learning algorithms for text analysis. In 2013 her experimental novel 'Tot Later' was published by De Bezige Bij, Antwerpen. She developed projects in collaboration with FoAM, Shift Space, Mangrove-Tentactile, Bolwerk, Bronks Jeugdtheater, BNA-BBOT, Library Sans-Souci Elsene/Ixelles and KWP De Pianofabriek.
Femke Snelting is an artist/designer developing projects between design, feminism and Free Software. With Renée Turner and Riek Sijbring she formed De Geuzen (a foundation for multi-visual research), co-initiated the design/research team Open Source Publishing (OSP) and the Libre Graphics Research Unit. With delegates Jara Rocha, Seda Guerses and Miriyam Aouragh she takes part in the Darmstadt Delegation, exploring techno-political and socio-emotional relationships between activist practice and tools. Since 2013 she is involved in Mondotheque, a collaborative project that grew out of a concern with the mesh of institutional histories, local politics and corporate interests coagulating around the heritage of Paul Otlet. She was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2015 and teaches at The Piet Zwart Institute (experimental publishing, Rotterdam), a.pass (Brussels) and erg (Brussels).
Constant is a non-profit, artist-run organisation based in Brussels since 1997 and active in the fields of art, media and technology. The artistic practice of Constant is inspired by the intersecting themes of collaborative work, promiscuous networks, free software, technological infrastructures, data-exchange, algorithmic culture, experimental archives, forms of (re)presentation, copyright alternatives and (cyber)feminism. Constant generates performative publishing, curatorial processes, poetic software, experimental research and educational experiments that is inspired by the way that technological infrastructures, data-exchange and software determine daily life.
Selected activities
- 'SICV (Scandinavian Institute of Computational Vandalism)', with Michael Murtaugh, Nicolas Malevé and Ellef Prestsæter (installation), Constant_V, 2016
- 'Public Domain Day', Anne Frank, Béla Bartòk, Paul Valéry, Kathe Kollwitz and Adolf Hitler enter the Public Domain (lectures, workshop, filmscreening with live soundtrack), Cinema Nova and Royal Library of Brussels, 2016
- 'Objects in common', exploring other ways of doing by taking ordinary/common objects as a point of departure (worksession), Medialab Prado, 2015
- 'Cqrrelations', exploring the shadow zones of statistics and computing (worksession), DeBuren, 2015
- 'Iterations - The Tech Oracle', with Pascale Barret, Julien Deswaef, Heidrun Primas, Ushi Reiter, Agnese Trocchi, IOhannes m zmölnig (collaborative exhibition project), esc medienlabor, Graz, 2015

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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ek44b92b2o00q5v/AACkE0KQ_Qi9HkovDOpXlc0sa?dl=0

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Constant ist eine von KünstlerInnen 1997 gegründete und geführte Organisation mit Sitz in Brüssel, die sich an der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Medien und Technologie bewegt. Webseite: www.constantvzw.org, Screenshot: Kunstforum
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Constant Verlag ist eine Textsammlung zu den Themen Kunst, Medien und Technologie, die frei benutzt, kopiert, modifiziert und weiterverbreitet werden darf. Webseite: www.constantvzw.org/verlag, Screenshot: Kunstforum
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Constant, The Death of the Authors: James Joyce & Rabindranath Tagore & Their Return to Life in Four Seasons (Cover), 2013, 44 Seiten, s/w-Digitaldruck, automatisierter Textremix, Constant Verlag, Design: Constant, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
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Constant, The Death of the Authors: James Joyce & Rabindranath Tagore & Their Return to Life in Four Seasons
(Cover), 2013, 44 Seiten, s/w-Digitaldruck, automatisierter Textremix, Constant Verlag, Design: Constant, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
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Constant, The Death of the Authors: James Joyce & Rabindranath Tagore & Their Return to Life in Four Seasons
(Cover), 2013, 44 Seiten, s/w-Digitaldruck, automatisierter Textremix, Constant Verlag, Design: Constant, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
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Constant, Remix der Covergestaltungen von The Death of the Authors, 2013, Design: Constant, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
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Michael Murtaugh, Anne Laforet, Gijs De Heij, Antonio Roberts, An Mertens, The Death of the Authors – 1943, A Botopera, 2015, Performance-Ankündigung, Design: Constant, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
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Constant, Botopera, Installation beim Brussels International Underground Poetry Festival, Wiels, 2015, Foto: Michael Murtaugh, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
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Constant, Botopera, Interaktive Installation im Schaufenster des Büros von Constant im Rahmen der Ausstellungsserie Constant_V, 2015, Foto: Michael Murtaugh, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
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Constant, Botopera, Auszug aus den von Bots generierten Texten, Interaktive Installation im Schaufenster des Büros von Constant im Rahmen der Ausstellungsserie Constant V, 2015, Foto: Michael Murtaugh, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
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Open Source Publishing – OSP wurde 2006 in the context of Constant gegründet und widmet sich Grafikdesign, das ausschließlich mit freier und Open-Source-Software gemacht wird. OSP wird von KünstlerInnen aus den Bereichen Typografie, Grafikdesign, Kartografie, Programmierung, Schreibern und Performance betrieben. Das Team arbeitet als eigenständiges Design Karawane seit 2013. Webseite: www.osp.kitchen, Screenshot: Kunstforum
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Open Source Publishing – OSP, Beispiel für eine Libre Font: Sans Guilt MB (basierende auf Monotype Gill Sans), Sans Guilt DB (basierenden aus Entwürfen von Eric Gill) and Sans Guilt LB (basierende auf einem Druck-Workshop am Royal College of Arts), 2011, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
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Open Source Publishing – OSP, Beispiel für eine Libre Font: Univers Else (basierende auf Fluxus Codex / George Maciunas), 2011, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
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Open Source Publishing – OSP, Beispiel für eine Libre Font: Belgika-Belgica, Motto: „Tools shape practice shape tools.“, 2011, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
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Constant, Recherche zu Paul Otlets "Le Traité de documentation, le livre sur le livre“ im Mundaneum Archive Center, Mons, 2015, Foto: Constant, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
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Constant und Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism, Le Traité de documentation, le livre sur le livre, Computer-Version des Original von Paul Otlet, 2015, Foto: Constant, © Free Art License, http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en