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!

'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.

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.

hervé perez: sound work

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

Doan

Harriet Lowe's surreal, time-warping adventures of the little old man from "Chrono Trigger" now runs to more than 380 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.

Contemporary Art in Sheffield

A quarterly guide to contemporary arts in Sheffield who have supported many Access Space events. Includes info on shows, talks, performances and film screenings at galleries, artist studios, exhibition spaces, and more unusual locations throughout the city.

Post Gimboid Llama Function

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

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.

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.

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.

Animation Workshop

Access Spacers Mike Futcher leads stop-motion animation workshops for kids and adults. Check out the fantastic examples of clay animations from previous workshops... they're great!

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.

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.

HPRI

James & Ed met the Heaton Park Road Initiative in Newcastle. Access Space set them up a Linux network and did workshops on graphics, web design, troubleshooting and more!

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.

Imp Images

Access Spacers Chris Shelton does groovy wedding and social photography in and around Matlock, The Peak district, Chesterfield and Sheffield.

Steve Withington

A showcase for the physical and virtual art of the very prolific Steve Withington, including Peak District photography, abstract paintings and smoking monkeys riding bikes!

SHIFT

SHIFT provides media training to the local community, with special emphasis on providing access for people without the qualifications required for college media courses.

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.

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.

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.

ManNipple8

A live event organised by Adrian Alvey, with live a/v sets by himself and Brighton's Chris Cook. Klankntronic and live sitar and guitar through MAX MSP - planty of photos on this site.

Arts & Leisure Foundation

Arts and Leisure Foundation are electronic music producers in Sheffield. Shortly (they promise) their site will bring you more info about forthcoming gigs, record releases and such.

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.

Open Movies

Video artist Jim Prevett was the first VGA resident artist of 2005, researching open-source video apps. Here are the results of his findings....

Kontupiste

Jim Prevett visited Kontupiste, an open source media lab in in Helsinki.Here are some pictures and info about it.

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.

Player Printer

As part of Sheffield's "Light Night" artist Simon Blackmore created a fully functioning music player out of an old printer with the help of eager workshoppers at Access Space.