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.

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.

'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.

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.

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).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sharrow Encounters

Since April 2003, Encounters have been taking over disused shop spaces and using them as bases to create evolving artworks around the themes of People, Community and Place. Find out more here...

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!

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!

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.

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.

4[in]04

Access Space's 4th birthday was celebrated in style. Presentations, performances, discussions, exhibitions and more - this is what you missed...

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.

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....

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.

Prevett & McArthur / The Cube

Opening of the Prevett & McArthur exhibition "I am an artist on Jobseeker's Allowance" and video screening. Kate Rich Ali Jones (from Bristol's Cube cinema) introduced the Access Space/Cube exchange, and their own projects.

hervé perez: sound work

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

Despair to Leisurewear

Dave Green from NTK.net (Need to Know) came to Access Space for wine and civilised chat. We managed to provide the wine. In return, he brought 20 NTK t-shirts for an exhibition. A fair swap.

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.

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.

Richard Bartle

Richard Bartle is an internationally recognised artist from Sheffield. He's also a dynamo of arts activity, organising Bloc Studios and creating this enormous self-promotional web gallery!

Malte Steiner

German electronic sound artist Malte Steiner was resident artist in Access Space in late 2002. He worked with Pure Data software. Here's a document of his residency.