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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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!

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.

hervé perez: sound work

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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!

4[in]04

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

Bloc Space

Bloc Studios is an incredibly active artist-led studio space in the centre of Sheffield. Bloc Space is their exhibition space. Well worth a visit.

Theo Parmakis

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anne Mawdsley

Anne is an artist working next door to Access Space at Yorkshire Artspace. At Access Space Anne learnt how to make web pages and produced this wonderful site to show off her art.

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.

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.

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.