Wendy Van Wynsberghe works with open hardware, conductive textiles, recycled electronic materials and a DIY approach to interactive installations and audio works. She studied Germanic Philology and electroacoustic music composition. She developed the radio programme ‘storing’ on FM Brussel and produced several independent sound works. Within Constant vzw she mainly focusses on Linux audio (among other things) and on the electronic recycling workshops “Ellentriek”.
Peter Westenberg creates collective performances, short films, audio walks and multimedia projects. His intervention series Routes + Routines researches the conditions of public space, social, virtual and urban networks. He studied Art History as well as Visual Arts. At the moment he is working on the Schaarbeekse Taal (the language of Schaarbeek), a series of local audio interventions and radio broadcasts in Schaarbeek / Brussels. At Constant vzw his focus is mainly on Open Source Video. Constant is an interdisciplinary workspace, established in Brussels in 1997. It is dedicated to the culture and ethics of the Web and electronic media. The artistic practice of Constant is inspired by the way in which technological infrastructures, data exchange and software influence our daily lives. Core areas of work include free software, alternatives to copyright and (cyber)feminism.
Julien Ottavi a mediactivist, artist-researcher, composer / musician, poet and tongues destroyer, experimental film maker and anarchitect, founder and member of Apo33, Julien Ottavi is involved in research and creative work, combining sound art, real-time video, new technologies and body performances. Since 1997, he develops a composition work using voice and its transformation through computer. Active developer of audio/visual programs with Puredata, he has also developed since many years DIY electronics (radio transmitters, oscillators, mixers, amplifiers, video transmitters...etc) in the perspective of knowledge sharing on technological development. Main developer for the Gnu/Linux operating system APODIO for digital art and A/V & streaming diffusion. His practices is not limited to the art spheres but crosses different fields from technological development to philosophy / theoretical research, biomimetic analysis & experimentation. Since many years he reflects on the relations between experimental practices and collective practices within the creation of autonomous collective groups, putting in question the authorship strategy of the “art ideology”.