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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

S1 Artspace

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

Antics

Spoken word group, based at the Red Deer in Sheffield. Info about meetings and the work they are involved in.

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.

Despair to Leisurewear

Dave Green from NTK.net (Need to Know) came to Access Space for wine and civilised chat. We managed to provide the wine. In return, he brought 20 NTK t-shirts for an exhibition. A fair swap.

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.

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.

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.

Kontupiste

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Imp Images

Access Spacers Chris Shelton does groovy wedding and social photography in and around Matlock, The Peak district, Chesterfield and Sheffield.

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.

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....