Today's Top 30
The top 30 sites drawn from today's selection...
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Kontupiste
Jim Prevett visited Kontupiste, an open source media lab in in Helsinki.Here are some pictures and info about 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
ManNipple8
A live event organised by Adrian Alvey, with live a/v sets by himself and Brighton's Chris Cook. Klankntronic and live sitar and guitar through MAX MSP - planty of photos on this site.
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.
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.
S1 Artspace
Art Studios and Exhibitions. S1 islocated in the centre of Sheffield near Devonshire Green.
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.
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).
Theo Parmakis
Theo's personal pages include photos, essays and informative computing resources.
hervé perez: sound work
Documents of live performances and collaborations, live improvisations and extracts from compositions, field recordings.
