ULB presentation

Evolution through homepage

• Evolution of Constant parallels the evolution of its website and the different datastructures produced during this evolution.
• We want to discuss an approach to datastructure which is not pre-planned, which is organic and that reorganises itself within 'chaos'. Which is learned by doing rather than learned and applied. Which allows for experiment and follows the life of an organisation through its changes rather than through its fixed image.

Leaflet era

Constants'homepage 2000

• 1999-mid 2003
• ref: http://www.archive.org
• top categories correspond to organised events in 'real space'
• events are organised by a central team
• one webdesigner and not part of the team
• all content is static
• produced with proprietary software(dreamweaver) and using commercial plugins(quicktime, realplayer, flash)

Site as production/publication space

Constants'homepage 2002

• mid 2003 - mid 2005
• ref:http://web.archive.org/web/20050324060205/www.constantvzw.com/index.php
• top categories are lower on the page and the feeds of the different weblogs take precedence.
• weblogs as private spaces of connected souls. An image randomly pulled out of the weblogs appears on the homepage. And links directly to a blog index page.
• Own server -> cyberfeminism
• Free software -> copy.cult
• Dynamic content
• In house webdesigners + programming -- selfthaught
• DIY

Site as project space

Urban(e)(istiques) Anomalie(ën)(s)

• ref:http://www.constantvzw.com/westenberg/
• weblogs that started as publications become projects that are 'produced' in real space.
• weblogs as projects scratchpad
• example of Urban... that turned into our collaboration with Peter that influenced VJ9 and will continue in Routes and routines.

Projects have their own archiving mechanism

Cuisine Interne Keuken

• ref:http://www.constantvzw.com/cuisine
• Cuisine Interne, the structure of the project is a list of questions
• The project is thought of by understanding what is a database.

Living archive

Mixing Past and Present

Constants'homepage 2006

• past and present are together on the homepage

View points

A view point by Kris Rutten

harvesting/mining the website

The dictionary of terms used by the search engine

• using the search as a dictionary