Today's Top 30
The top 30 sites drawn from today's selection...
'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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
South Yorkshire Women's Development Trust
Access Space is delighted to host the website of the South Yorkshire Women's Development Trust - we hope that they can help us to get more women involved in learning about ICT!
Simon Lewandowski
Artist Simon Lewandowski's fascinating site - filled with arts projects encompassing home-built technology. We particularly like the ArtistMachine - which makes art and then destroys it!
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.
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).
S1 Artspace
Art Studios and Exhibitions. S1 islocated in the centre of Sheffield near Devonshire Green.
Pingdom
Live international electronica jam using Net PD. DJ and digital mash-up artist Joe Stojsic (aka SQGL) installed the software over a short residency at Access Space, performed and facilitated the jamming session.
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.
Zomaz
Braindead Nation presents Zomaz - Sheffield's most famous anarchist wizard. A growing series of stories with pictures that will surprise and delight children everywhere.
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.
Imp Images
Access Spacers Chris Shelton does groovy wedding and social photography in and around Matlock, The Peak district, Chesterfield and Sheffield.
Electric Chaos
Richard Bolam has worked with Access Space on a number of excellent projects, including his internationally acclaimed Hyperscape works. This is his website.
Sheffield Independent Film
Sheffield Independent Film provides services, support and facilities to filmmakers and new media practitioners. High quality, industry-led training & a skilled team of creatives, technicians and producers.
PHP workshop
Jim Methley came in and gave an excellent introductory course in using PHP for producing active websites. Here are the notes he provided, and a slideshow with everything you ever needed to know on the subject.
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.
Yog Yog
The place where trash tech artist Mike Futcher tells you about all the stuff he's working on. Mike created the video game "Leaf Trashes the System" which was exhibited at Access Space.
Uiyo City
Uyio City exhibition by Philip Bradley at Access Space January 12th - 3rd March 2007. For the duration of 3 months Philip continually adjusted a panoramic digital scape out of arriving contributions from the MySpace community to create the ethereal panorama.
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.
TxtManor Project
A web page recording the graphics and music made by participants in the TxtManor Project at Access Space. The project explored the heritage of the Manor Estate with young people from the area and was organised by the Sheffield Museums and Galleries Trust and Manor Young People's Health Project. Some of the young people were involved in graphics and audio workshops at Access Space, led by Jake Harries in the summer of 2006. And this is the work they produced.
Skylark KL
Information on arthritis from Kathryn Lausevic's personal experience and research for her book The Long Search, complementary treatments for cancer, examples of Kathryn's artwork and an introduction to her latest book "Visions Towards Unity".
Antics
Spoken word group, based at the Red Deer in Sheffield. Info about meetings and the work they are involved in.
