Livecoding Visuals Workshop with Antonio Roberts
2020-09-12 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London)
Online Workshop
Improviz is an environment built by Guy John aka Rumblesan, which can be used for live coding visual performances. Its easy-to-learn language for creating visuals can be extended through the use of custom GL shaders and by using your own GIFs, 3D models and image textures.
This two-hour workshop, led by visual artist Antonio Roberts aka hellocatfood, will introduce you to the world of live coding, and guide you through the basics of using Improviz for live visuals.
This workshop will also include a short look at how artists and musicians use code to make visuals and music in real time at Algoraves.
If you’ve ever been curious about using code to make live visuals and have aspirations to perform at live coding events and Algoraves then this workshop is perfect for you.
No coding experience is necessary.
Book a place at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livecoding-visuals-workshop-tickets-119060488125
You will need:
* A Windows, Mac or Linux laptop that can connect to the internet
* Google Chrome https://www.google.com/chrome/ or Firefox https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/
* Improviz (desktop version) https://improviz.rumblesan.com/
* Atom https://atom.io/
* Zoom https://zoom.us/

About Antonio Roberts
Antonio Roberts is an artist and curator based in Birmingham, UK. His practices explore what ownership and authorship mean in an age impacted by digital technology.
His work has been featured at galleries and festivals including databit.me in Arles, France (2012), Glitch Moment/ums at Furtherfield Gallery, London (2013), Loud Tate: Code at Tate Britain (2014), glitChicago at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, US (2014), Permission Taken at Birmingham Open Media and University of Birmingham (2015-2016), Common Property at Jerwood Arts, London (2016), Ways of Something at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017), Green Man Festival, Wales (2017), Barbican, London (2018), Copy / Paste at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2019) and We Are Your Friends at Czurles Nelson Gallery, Buffalo, US (2019).
He has curated exhibitions and projects including GLI.TC/H Birmingham (2011), the Birmingham editions of Bring Your Own Beamer (2012, 2013), Stealth (2015), and No Copyright Infringement Intended (2017), and Copy Paste (2020). He is part of a-n’s Artist Council, is an Artist Advisor for Jerwood Arts and from 2014 – 2019 he was Curator at Vivid Projects where he produced the Black Hole Club artist development programme.

Website: https://hellocatfood.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/hellocatfooood
YouTube: https://youtube.com/hellocatfood

Processing - an introductory workshop with Toni Buckby
2020-09-19 13:00 - 18:00
Introduction to coding with Processing for the visual arts
Join artist Toni Buckby (www.tonibuckby.com) for this introductory online workshop in Processing – a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts.
Learn the basics of programming in Java and make interactive visuals and animations.
This session is suitable for beginners and more experienced coders. Please install the Processing IDE (instructions will be sent before the workshop and help will be available during the session).
Book a place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/processing-an-introductory-workshop-tickets-119064766923
For more info please email jake@access-space.org

Online Residency Event with Camille Baker and Susanne Palzer
2020-11-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Online Event
Camille Baker and Susanne Palzer: Intangible Threshold
Thursday, 05 November 2020, 2 to 4pm, online event
Join us on YouTube here.
Access Space is delighted to present ‘Intangible Threshold’, a collaboration between Camille Baker and Susanne Palzer for the Access Space Online Residency Programme 2020.
Baker and Palzer will perform a short ‘choreography’ of a collection of gestures “live” over the internet, as part of the output of their remote residency experimentations and improvisations. The performance will be followed by a conversation between the artists and Jake Harries, Access Space’ Director of Art and Innovation.
Intangible Threshold investigates collaboration and the meaning of connection over distance through screens and available technology. Coming together as two artists from different backgrounds in performance, Susanne Palzer and Camille Baker were brought together to answer this question: what methods do we have at our fingertips to brainstorm, devise, and rehearse live performance in COVID times in 2020? Through performative acts, digital connection through cameras, as well as using video conferencing tools, they look at ways to comment on the meta-issues around distant relationships, virtual touch, connections with nature as replacement for human physical interaction, as well as the current restricted possibilities of performing live in-person.
You can read more about their Online Residency here.

Camille Baker
Camille has been making and curating work in the interactive arts domain, from installation art to e-textiles and wearable technology, immersive experience design, mobile media art, interactive installation, the body in digital performance, media art curating, and using emerging technologies research and education in dance and performance for over 25 years. She is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and researcher with a background in digital and electronic art and design practices, working across creative digital disciplines. She makes work that explores use of unique methods and approaches to extending the body through or with the aid of technology, to explore expressive non-verbal modes of communication and extended embodiment through interactive and immersive art and performance. Her portfolio can be found at camillebaker.me
Susanne Palzer
Susanne is a cross-disciplinary artist, independent researcher and performer based in Sheffield, UK. Her main practice investigates the intersection of digital and analogue forms, with a particular interest in the fusion of digital technology and physical performance. Palzer is the curator of OPENPLATFORM/RAP(s)-TwT., a series of micro events that explore the digital with physical means. Most recently she initiated Twelve Months Notice, a project which explores artistic strategies for negotiating the fundamentally changed situation following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. All aspects of her practice are concerned with what it means to be a human being in a shifting world and how we negotiate and continuously re-position ourselves in an environment of increasing disembodiment and continuous uncertainty. Susanne Palzer’s work has been shown in the UK, across Europe and in North America. Palzer has previously been a co-director at Access Space (UK).
Twelve Months Notice; On/Off; OPEN PLATFORM

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Libre Graphics Workshops July-August 2021
2021-07-10 18:00 - 20:00
libregraphics.club July & August sessions now open for registration
10/07
20/07
10/08
20/08
6 – 8pm BST
Come join us and learn how to use community developed image editing
software & make ace flyers, posters, stickers, booklets, zines & more.
For our July & August sessions we’re inviting all artists, community
organisers and activist interested in Libre Graphics but not sure where
to start. In order to experiment further with our co-learning, we’re
changing the format to more participation – so come with questions and
we’ll prepare & share files for live online practice.
Free, please register here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/libre-graphics-club-tickets-160588812461
About LGC
Libre Graphics is a broad ecosystem of digital tools and creative
practises in the areas of design, illustration, typography, layout, art,
photography, publishing, cartography, animation and video. Libre
Graphics Club is an artist-led pilot project to develop and deliver a
series of free workshops and open access online educational resource for
experimentation with free/libre arts & technologies.
In collaboration with Furtherfield, Access Space, Common House and
Antiuniversity, the project provides artist, community organisers and
activists with exciting opportunities to explore Libre Graphics tools
above and beyond those taught within the conventional art/design
curriculums, so all can do more to enchant practice in these
extraordinary times.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Keep up with us on instagram&twitter: @wheel_o_values
Supported by Arts Council England

Yoko Miura with Charlie Collins and Derek Saw
2022-10-06 19:00 - 22:00
£5 cash on the door
Bring a bottle
Doors open 7pm for 7:30 start

Access Space presents a rare opportunity to explore the sound world of the remarkable Yoko Miura.
Only briefly in the UK, the hauntingly beautiful pianism of this Fukuoka based musician will engage in a series of dialogues with her regular UK collaborators.

YOKO MIURA – piano, melodeon, toy piano
CHARLIE COLLINS – waterphone, metal, percussion
DEREK SAW – tuba & electronics, pocket trumpet

This warmly intense trio, hovering on the margins of free improvisation and contemporary composition, is the natural extension of Yoko Miura and Charlie Collins 12 year association. Miura’s classical and jazz credentials, an intuitive distillation of Takemitsu and Bley, are the perfect foil for Collins and Saw’s fluid interplay.

“A sense of space and elegant poise are key features in the musical world of Yoko Miura. Impressionistic glimpses, like half remembered phrases sometimes left to hang in the air, take the listener to a sound world filled with space and natural beauty.”

YOKO MIURA, born in Tokyo, studied classical piano from the ages of 5 to18, after which her already diverging classical and jazz influences led to studies with many of Japan’s leading teachers. Since 2001 she has travelled regularly outside of Japan, performing and recording with many of the leading figures of European experimentalism, including Lawrence Casserley, Steve Beresford, John Russell, Hans Koch, Alison Blunt, Mia Zebelka, Jean-Michel van Schouwburg, and Gianni Mimmo. She has collaborated with Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, and recorded with US drum legend Matt Wilson.
“I am trying to make a kind of different universe, interweaving and exchanging with different processes, values, and ways, with all people, not just the musicians, but also painters and dancers.”

CHARLIE COLLINS is a creative percussionist, free polyrhythmic drummer, and sound artist, based in Sheffield, UK. His work continues to explore the boundaries between pure sound and rhythm, frequently incorporating metal percussion and improvisation. During the 1970s he was involved in the nascent “Industrial” scene, recording for cult labels Industrial, Fetish, and Doublevision, while his lifelong interest in East Asian percussion and rhythm technique is displayed in current work with komungo player Eun-Jung Kim, pianist Yoko Miura, visual artist Bongsu Park, composer Ryoko Akama, voice artist Ami Yamasaki, and Butoh dancers Tsukasa Kamidate and Mushimaru Fujieda.
He is one of a handful of musicians to have played both Derek Bailey’s Company Week and Top Of The Pops.

DEREK SAW has worked in free improvisation and at the cutting edges of jazz since his move to Sheffield, UK. He was a member of legendary electric free/jazz group Bass Tone Trap, and in the mid eighties co-founded the respected Hornweb quartet, while also organising his own Rhythm Division, which included drummer Paul Hession. More recently he has worked with thereminist Beatrix Ward-Fernandez on her Trio project, and collaborated with internationally acclaimed artists Sonny Simmons, Gino Robair, Linda Sharrock, Anton Mobin, Yoko Miura, and Eun-Jung Kim.
For more info please email: jake@access-space.org

Alistair Zaldua, E-violin + live electronics
2022-10-13 19:30 - 22:00
£5 cash on the door
Bring a bottle
Doors open 7:30pm for 8:00pm start

This concert will feature a set of new compositions by Alistair Zaldua for the 5-string e-violin and live electronics. While each piece involves improvisation and experimental approaches to performance, the machine listening involved in the electronics serves to operate as an improvisation partner. While collecting and processing data derived from the e-violin sound, the electronics create expressive real and unreal spaces. This allows the violin to not only improvise into, but also to interact with and against.

About: Alistair Zaldua
British-Colombian improviser, composer, and violinist, Alistair Zaldua is based in Manchester. His work encompasses notated composition, live electronics, improvisation and collaboration with musicians and ensembles both in the UK and abroad. In 2018 his work manifesto for speaker and large ensemble was selected as a prize winner of the ilde Lieder Marx.Music Composition Competition by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. His album remote music (2020) was funded by a grant from the Arts Council UK Emergency Response Fund and comprises a set of open form postcard pieces. In 2020 he also received a Sound and Music COVID-19 Composer Award (2020). In 2021 the album Where The Wind Takes Us was released with Trio CZW (with Paul Cheneour, flutes, and Maureen Wolloshin, oboe) on the pan y rosas discos label (Chicago). In June 2022 he was an artist in residence at Neither/Nor (Ytra Arna, Bergen). Alistair currently works in duets with Lauren Redhead (organ, spoken voice, electronics), vocalist Alwynne Pritchard (Norway), saxophonist Christoph Gallio (Switzerland), and recently in trio with vocalist Franziska Baumann (Switzerland) and drummer Steve Noble (UK). He has been invited to work at the ExperimentalStudio (2023) in a project with trombonist Andrew Digby (Stuttgart).For more information email jake@access-space.org
