'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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Post Gimboid Llama Function

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Gorilla Cinema

An alternative to the mainstream media machine! Gorilla Cinema runs guerilla film screenings from its mobile solar-powered projector, and produces films as well!

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.

Kontupiste

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

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.

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.

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!

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.