It was active before, just not published yet and after so much time has passed I realized I’m too slow at throwing contents and create the new website, so I finally correct the redirect issues I had, and now both www.ants-interpretation.org and ants-interpretation.org point to this blog, gently hosted by the French hosting service provider poivron.org, which original address is ants.pimienta.org.
TECH: It’s a temporary masquerade redirect, which means it is not a permanent solution (I will build the new website at some point!) and it masquerades the domain name on your address bar, so unless you wrote exactly ants.pimienta.org to reach this place, you’ll always see www.ants-interpretation.org.
All very technical and uninteresting for most of you reading, but hei that’s part of building your project’ website yourself, you’ll need to learn a lot of necessary skills.
The list that follows is the complete List of Languages for which ANTS provides Simultaneous Interpretation, taken from my Interpreters Database.
ANTS Database counts with more than 1.100 Interpreters located all over the world, working both in remote and in-person, which I collected during the events I participated since 2009.
The list accounts for (more than) 80 languages from all over the world 🙂
ANTS has been confirmed for this assignment in the Conference Ban Fossil Fuel Advertising 2026, to be held in Lyon (FR), 2-3 May 2026.
Previous editions including Amsterdam 2023 and Barcelona 2025 were held in English only, while for Brussels 2024 edition, ANTS has provided the infrastructure for simultaneous interpretation in English and French and sound systems for the plenary and workshop rooms, in two different venues.
“Commercial advertising plays a key role in shaping public perceptions of the world’s most destructive companies. Fossil fuel giants, airlines, fast fashion, junk food and Big Tech use marketing and PR strategies to normalize their harmful business models, greenwash their responsibility and flood public media spaces with half-truths, distractions and silence on key issues, as global inequality and climate breakdown accelerate.“
For this year conference, ANTS will be providing the interpreters and technology needed to held this event simultaneously in two languages, French and English, with a similar set-up as Brussels 2024.
It is with great happiness that I announce another ANTS collaboration with Arche Noah, as I’m in charge of coordinating the Interpreters for their online seed policy workshop happening the 16th of October 2025.
We will have 2 booths, FR and DE, with an EN Pivot language.
The event is organized by Arche Noah, Association for the Conservation and Development of Cultivated Plant Diversity, an organization based in Austria working on cultivated biodiversity and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. The topic to be discussed will be the current state of discussions in the EU Council on the new seed legislation.
” Together, we’ll explore how to get involved in the reform process and advocate for more diversity in the seed law. Furthermore, we will present the Good Food 4All European Citizens’ Initiative and possibilities to get involved “
It’s with immense joy that I announce we’ve been confirmed for the LUSH Spring Prize.
The LUSH Spring Prize it’s a charity event in which more than 200.000 pounds are donated to projects that works on different topics around earth regeneration. 2025 edition will be held in Poole, UK from 26th to 30th of May.
Personally I’ve been providing Interpretation services for the previous 4 editions, happening every 2 years, one of which was online during lock-down, so I’m particularly happy that for this year again the organizers of the Spring Prize (Ethical Consumer Research Association) has decided to go with me again, this time with the ANTS project.
We will be Providing Interpretation Technology, Sound System and Interpreters Coordination for the 2 rooms in Kingston and the Official Ceremony in the Lighthouse Theater.
We usually move around with a small van, as we take in great seriousness our ecological footprint. The commercial company in the Interpretation world moves around with big truck full of very expensive equipment, at no reach for small organizations and collectives of the social movement area.
When it comes to the sound proofing of the booths, of course they don’t offer the same characteristics as the full-on soundproofed booths normally used in the Interpretation world, for which you need to move a truck in order to transport them – increasing incredibly not only the ecological footprint, but also the overall costs.
We consider enough to use those Plexicabins – as we call them – more environmentally friendly in comparison to the sound-proofed booths. Of course there’s need to organize the room in a way that the voice of the interpreters doesn’t reach too much the ears of the close-by participants – which are using headphones to receive the Interpretation in the language they choose, by the way.
The Booths1 that we use – the Plexicabins – were designed more than a decade ago by a pioneer collective project that I co-founded in 2009. Their designs are open-source and they were copied and adapted by dozens of other collectives and organizations all over the world.
ANTS Team is very proud to announce that after little more than 6 months of official activity, due to the ever growing requests of Simultaneous Interpretation Services from different Social Movements events all over the globe and online, we have finally bought our own web domain:
The current website will be moved very soon at the new direction, while the new contact emails are already active:
info@ants-interpretation.org : this is the general contact email to get in touch with the ANTS Team to request info about our services, technology, way of working, pricing and so on and to request our services for an upcoming event.
interpreters@ants-interpretation.org : this is the coordination email that we use to organize the interpreters for an event. It is also used by hundreds of Interpreters to contact us for different purposes: updating their database entries, asking for technology to cover for Interpretation in events they work in, ecc.
Hi all! The event “Del Plato al Planeta: Municipios que transforman“, a conference and workshop on Food Systems and their impact on Climate Change.is now over and I’m coming back home, a bit tired cause of the travel by flight, but happy after all :).
It was very satisfying and everything worked out in the perfect shape I was sure of, even if I had to act as the room sound technician – which I wasn’t supposed to be.
I didn’t had the whole Sound Equipment in charge this time (only Interpretation Technology and Interpreters Coordination, as we used the sound equipment already installed in the room hired by the organization) but in the end I had to organize even the microphones for the conference. Most importantly, I manage to improve and fix the FLOOR1 line for the Interpreters, which initially was not working at all, and I also gave a general sound line-out to the video technicians for their recordings.
The video recordings were made by 2 very nice and technical guys from a project called LAPSE, a video production collective based in Barcelona (Cataluña, Spain) that was in charge of video-recording the whole event, with interviews to some of the participants, in order to post-produce the official videos of this very interesting and important event.
LAPSE: SergiLAPSE: Rafel Atez
For this event, I had to take a flight with all the necessary – but minimum – equipment, so we weren’t able to use the table-top, wooden-plexiglass foldable cabins that we usually set-up in every event. The Interpreters were sitting at the back of the room as to not disturb the rest of the participants with their voice. About 40 people participated to this conference.
Receivers table: ANTS written with the Interpretation receivers 🙂
Usually we move around with a small van, as we consider enough to use those plexicabins – as we call them – more environmentally friendly in comparison to the full-on soundproof booths normally used in the Interpretation world, for which you need to move a truck in order to transport them – increasing incredibly not only the ecological footprint, but also the overall costs.
The Booths2 that we use – the Plexicabins – were designed more than a decade ago by a pioneer collective project that I co-founded in 2009, and were copied and adapted by dozens of other collectives and organizations all over the world. They are made of a foldable plexiglass structure with a wooden top and are lightweight and environmentally friendly, as we can move them around with ANTS small van together with the rest of the equipment, without the need of a big truck or dedicated set-up team. The plexiglass structure offers a decent soundproofing, while the wooden top ensures cabins stability as it keeps the cabin together.
Anyway, after this technical digression and coming back to the event, I share here some photos: you can click on the “read more” button to see the whole article with the photos!
And soon I will add more photos and some videos the video Technicians from LAPSE will produce!
