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

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.

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.

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.

hervé perez: sound work

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

Post Gimboid Llama Function

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

'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.

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.

Theo Parmakis

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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...

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

S1 Artspace

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

Kontupiste

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

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.