Partners organisations

Iterations will be carried out by four complementary organisations such as Constant, esc, Hangar en Dyne.org. Some of these organisations are more focused on production and presentation, the others on research and experimentation, - that will ensure an interesting exchange of synergies, skills, public and artistic networks all along the project and beyond.

Constant, Association for Art and Media
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 interdisciplinary and inspired by many themes that criss-crossed each other: collaborative work, technological innovation, pipelined networks, software infrastructures, data-exchange, algorithms, experimental archives, new forms of (re)presentations, copyright alternatives, (cyber)feminism and the ethics of the World Wide Web.
Constant organizes different activities (work-sessions, residencies, workshops, exhibitions, presentations) on a regular basis for artists, creators and researchers who are interested in experimentations, discussions and exchanges. The thread running through Constant’s program is the use and support of open source software.

Www.constantvzw.org

Esc medien kunst labor
The central task of esc is the production of art. In this context the main focus is on the precise observation and seismographic recording of artistic processes that examine and deal with socio-political developments (information- and biotechnologies, socio-economic systems) and new technologies (hardware and software). 
The artistic activities of the esc media art laboratory derive from the notion that art is understood as subsystem of social and societal reality; the media-specific approach is based on the designation of this reality through “new” culture technologies “new media”.

http://esc.mur.at

Hangar
Hangar is a center for art research and production, offering support to artists. Hangar’s mission is to support the visual artists and creators during the different phases of their art production processes as well as to contribute to the best development of their projects. For doing so, Hangar facilitates them equipments, facilities, production assistance and a suitable context for experimentation and free knowledge transfer.
The center offers an array of services and a framework that allows for the research and development of art productions in their entirety, or partially. Hangar follows up on the results by including the projects in various networks and platforms, or by detecting possibilities for their incorporation within other fields.
https://hangar.org

Dyne.org
Dyne is a foundation committed to research and development of free and open source software and services. Dyne supports artists, creatives and engaged citizens in the digital age with tools, practices and narratives for community empowerment. Dyne is constituted by an international network of experts syndicating and contributing to diverse technological developments for their quality and role within societies. Dyne shares peer reviews, mutual support and resources for peace and equal rights, operating outside the logic of profit and competition. Dyne supports cooperation within social contexts to leverage on-line and on-site community values, to empower people with the hacker attitude to re/think, re/mix and re/design to circumvent limitations and find a way out from economies based on scarcity and privilege.

www.dyne.org
Associated organisations
Next to the partner organisations that will be directly involved in the implementation of the project, there will be organisations and institutions that will be involved in different ways in the development of the activities.

BOZAR, Brussels
The last Iteration that will take place in Brussels will be partly host by Palais des Beaux Arts (Bozar) in the frame of the Bozar Electronic Art Festival. Bozar is a Center for fine art in the heart of Brussels. Creativity, quality, and artistic diversity have been at the heart of the Centre’s mission since its foundation, willing art not to be something abstract and distant, but truly part of the “culture” of a society as variegated and international as Brussels. Bozar Electronic Art Festival ia a showcase for nowadays digital culture. Every September, during 10 days, the public can enjoy a vast line up of audio-visual installations and performances reflecting on the current dialogue between the use of new technologies and strong artistic personalities, ranging from cutting edge experimentalists to high profile electronic artists. Bozar will offer also a residency space in its Bozar lab, an incubation space in the form of a cross-platform for innovation that aims to support the dynamics of reflection and creation, communication and sharing.  

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Target groups
The project is aimed to a wide range of individual artists, artists’ groups and institutions from the field of art, culture and education. Constants public ranges from audiovisual and digital artists to software programmers, academics, linux users, interface designers, urban explorers, performance artists, lawyers, body hackers, 3D theorists, game activists, queer designers, software feminists, storytellers and other tech creative souls. Esc focuses more on local and international artists and artists’ collectives as well as art educators and art students, touching different fields: visual and audiovisual art, sound engineering and radio making, media and tech-art, art that explores alternative social forms and life systems. Hangar is specialized in visual and multimedia artists and creators with a special eye on those who are interested in cross-sector production and transmission of knowledge, contemporary and future narratives, societal inquiries. Experimental collectives, academics, researchers interacts with them through different activities and services. Dyne.org touches different communities: radio makers, computer and reality hackers, humanitarian organisations, artists, medics, activists, educators, art and tech-students, who experiment with creativity, art and artisanship exploring new forms of expression and interaction, disseminating new languages that can be freely adopted and modified.