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.

'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.

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.

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.

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 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!

Post Gimboid Llama Function

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

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.

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.

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.

Theo Parmakis

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

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.

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.

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!

S1 Artspace

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

Julian Oliver Residency

The Blender 3d specialist spent 2 weeks working at Access Space on various projects, incuding a 2nd person shooter. Here is the documentation he left so you can become a Blender genius, and make your own games and installations.

Imp Images

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

Antics

Spoken word group, based at the Red Deer in Sheffield. Info about meetings and the work they are involved in.

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.

New Dust

Arts collective based in Sheffield and London, working on excellent events comprising audio-visual work and live performance.

Dubious Audio

DubiousAudio is a new record label based in Sheffield and London, set up with the belief that labels should be there to support artists, not the other way around.

hervé perez: sound work

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

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.

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.

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.

Simon Blackmore residency

Simon Blackmore from Manchester was our artist in residence in April 03. He worked on an installation project involving PIC programming and rain sensors. Click the link to see his online diary and tutorial.