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Today's Top 30

The top 30 sites drawn from today's selection...

Open Source Embroidery

Ele Carpenter is artist in residence at Access Space in July 2007. Ele has been embarking on a superb open source embroidery project to make a collective patchwork of Html hexidecimal colours. She has got many Access Space participants and local knitting / embroidery groups involved in making patches. Great!

LOSS Livecode festival

LOSS Livecode was a small festival of cutting edge Audio Visual livecoding organised by Access Space and Toplap. It saw musicians and coders from all over the world converging on Sheffield to have a natter, show what they have been doing and give some excellent performances.

flet.org

flet.org is a blog, and maybe other things, about stuff that gets Mark and Abi fired up: web development, Free Software, allotmenting, parenting, social justice, sustainble living... and some less serious stuff too, they hope.

Doan

Harriet Lowe's surreal, time-warping adventures of the little old man from "Chrono Trigger" now runs to more than 540 episodes. One of the most fascinating and expansive projects developed at Access Space.

Spacers Wiki

The Spacers Wiki is a place where Access Space participants (aka Spacers) can develop their own wikified web content. Typical uses include links to spacers' new projects, documenting collaborative activities and taking notes.

hervé perez: sound work

Documents of live performances and collaborations, live improvisations and extracts from compositions, field recordings.

'and finally Ester...'

Collaborative art group Anachron-Gen serve up a delightful Alladin's cave of a project. This is the web based element to the exhibition at Access Space in May 2007.

Theo Parmakis

Theo's personal pages include photos, essays and informative computing resources.

Vertebrate Graphics

Sheffield web designers Vertebrate Graphics use Access Space's servers for an upload zone, so their clients can transfer high-res images to them without delay.

Re-Programme

To celebrate five years of activity (which makes Access Space the longest-running open access media lab in the UK!) Access Space has published this retrospective booklet.

Adal Voice of Eritrea

Aklilu Abraham broadcasts the "Adal Voice of Eritrea" programme on Sheffield Live Community Radio. It is a program designed for the Eritrean community in UK (Sheffield) and the Eritrean diasporas across the world.

Post Gimboid Llama Function

Carlos Barcode and the Monkey Collective presented this major Deedahist exhibition in February/March 2006.

Sheffield Street Art

Sheffield has a fine collection of artwork scattered across the city on gable-ends, hoardings, walls and shop-front shutters. Probably most people in the city are unaware of its existence. All of it is accessible by public transport.

Tools + Techniques 3

T+T3 continued our series of successful software demo days. The theme for this event was audio software, looking into open source sequencers, samplers and drum machines.

Freedom Software

Freedom Software offers development services to web designers who want to add dynamic content to their existing sites. And they've helped us develop a new blogging system for Access Space.

LOSS

The LOSS (Linux Open Source Sound) project combines open source software with Creative Commons licensing, creating a new level of freedom in the way music is made and distributed, with a CD and website downloads.

S1 Artspace

Art Studios and Exhibitions. S1 islocated in the centre of Sheffield near Devonshire Green.

Still Moving

The animation, comic strip and drawing exhibition and linked events at Access Space. Featuring work by Mike Futcher, Tony Dawson, Chris Shelton, Harriet Lowe, James Morris, Michael Teshand John Keenan.

f5

Access Space celebrated its 5th birthday in April 05. The occasion was marked with performances by Pix, Nullpointer, Tablex, Matt Gray and Juliun C90 (DJ set), as well as an excellent set of sotware workshops/demos.

Julian Oliver

At the end of his residency, Julian Oliver gave a talk on his work, and the impact of open source software on the world of contemporary digital arts. Click here for images (and a link to the documents he left for us).

D4 Maths

With extensive experience in "C" programming and a longstanding interest in mathematics Tony Goddard has made a powerful tool for hardcore maths & scripting. For light relief Tony's pages include commentary & political blasts.

Words & Wheels

Access Space worked with Year 5 of Foxhill Primary school to create a website based on the objects found in Kelham Island Museum's new transport gallery. The kids created poems, adverts and creative writing for the website.

Pix

Berlin-based programmer/artist Pix spent a month working in Access Space in Spring 2005. Developing a new sound engine for the 'Fijuu' artwork/installation in Supercollider (from PD), Pix left us some documentation and about his work, and a Supercollider .rpm.

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