Spacers' Wiki

Hello! Welcome to the Spacers' Wiki. This is a space where Access Space participants (Spacers) can create wikified web content. We reckon it'll be most useful for documenting collaborative activities - but you may find another use for it.

If you want to experiment with this wiki, READ the “How To…” (below).

Interactive digital montage projects

Open Surgery offers advice and support with CV's, applications, letters and other written documents using Open Office.

Games Group meets in Access Space most Tuesday evenings to play games. But we don't play computer games! Currently our preoccupations are chess, chess variants and role-playing games. Curry is also a factor.

On Warped Wednesdays help is available all day for people working with digital images, from 11am-7pm, using open source software such as the GNU Image Manipulation Program (www.gimp.org). People of all levels of skill are welcome - from complete beginners to seasoned experts…no need to book, and it's free!

Presentations of creative projects involving technology followed by discussion, every fourth Friday from 26th February 2010, 3-4pm

Saturday Recovery

A day long workshop to re-cover and revive our tired old chairs! Saturday 27th February 2010.

Several people at Access Space are already interactive fiction authors. We thought it'd be cool to start an interactive fiction group based around the ALAN3 programming language.

• Doan - Chrono Trigger sprite comic.

• Spaced Out - Interactive web comic based in the Access Space in a surreal alternate dimension - we need more pictures to star as characters, please visit us and upload some!

• Mister Faulty the Golem

Doan now has her own wiki! It is still under construction but it will look awesome when it is finished! Honest, guv.

Modulus P Artwork

• The Real Sheffield

Richard Bakewell

Nicholas's Documents

David's Chess Pages

Pretentious Artist. An impressively wordy screed from the infamous Pretentious Artist. We've put this into a new document so that it doesn't clutter up the front page too much. Hey, Pretentious - make new documents by making links!

Theo Parmakis' Page Things I have done/am doing.

Stretching Stretch's brain A spot of musing on Martyn's (and anyone else that wants to join in) ideas for social technology and bits and bobs for Access Space.

A glossary of terms relating to the Deedahist art movement.

snowman

kinder_scout

Recycle Exhibition: In December we had another of our periodic recycle days at Access Space, and this time we twinned it with an exhibition project, where we made artworks and curios from the mountains of techno-trash!

Here's some additional documentation of the LOSS LiveCode Festival which was organised by Access Space in Sheffield in July 2007. The main festival website is here: http://livecode.access-space.org

• LOSS Livecode Gallery
• LOSS Livecode Gallery 2 (from “0742” at pretentiousartist.com)
• LOSS Livecode Gallery 3 (from “0742” at pretentiousartist.com)
• LOSS Livecode Gallery 4

If you're interested in LOSS Livecode, you'll probably also be interested in the LOSS Project, which is the first iteration of this project.

Blind Drawing is what happens when you ask people to make portraits… without looking!

We had the first Spacers' meeting of the year on 24th April.

Present: Adam M, Anita, Callum, Cy, Harriet, Jake, James W, Javid, John K, Jim M, Hannah, Jose, Mike H, Reka, Rich L, Tony G, Trevor.

Apologies: Richard B, TJ,

Here are the minutes of the meeting written up by Hannah. Thanks Hannah

Cool Festival Notes

Marc and Ruth from net art organisation, Furtherfield.org spent a week as artists in residence. During this time they collaborated with spacers remixing their images, sounds and concepts using simple HTML and Javascripts.

Art4Netizens

A list of pages of information and photos of Access Space arts events, including the 20×20 exhibitions.

Arts Programme Events

• 20x20 2009 and documentation of previous 20×20 shows.

* Documentation of the opening of the “Open Source Embroidery” Launch

• Documentation the final workshop session of the “Open Source Embroidery” residency and exhibition.

An introduction to the GNU/Linux shell (command line), complete with many examples and scripts to show the kinds of cool things it can be used for.

• Brian notes on an occasional visitor

* Proposal for Access Space's computer setup

• Unordered List ItemIssues and fixes for the new Debian machines

• Interesting Links

• Blender Research

• Soundbox A guide to Access Space's sound server

By Cassandra Kill

This case study is part of my MA Creative Enterprise at Leeds Met. I hope that over time it will be edited, rewritten and erased to become a collaborative piece. Please feel free to read and contribute to the development of the piece as you wish.

Black Dogs Case Study

We've been searching online to see who's been writing about Access Space. Here's what they say.

Lowtech

Doing really cool stuff with old hardware.

Access-Space

The open-source media lab.

Know How

An editable resource of technical information for both beginner and advanced users.

• Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle

• To modify content you'll need to register as a wiki user. Click the “log in” button and make yourself an account by clicking “register”. You'll need an email address for the wiki to send you a password.

• To add new content you simply make a link to a new page, click through, and follow the instructions. To keep things tidy, we suggest making a new namespace for each project (a namespace is a directory on the server). To make a new namespace start from this page and make a new link like this: [[newproject:projectintro|My New Project]]. That makes a directory called newproject and puts a page inside it called projectintro. Click through, and you're good to go!

• To mess around please don't use other people's pages just to find out how this wiki works. Use the Wiki Sandbox instead. The Wiki Sandbox is a space in which to experiment using the wiki. Any document in the “playground” namespace is a test place - feel free to mess around!

• Please, play nice! We know we don't really need to say this - but please don't sabotage other participants' work, and don't spam the wiki with numerous and/or oversized links to your own stuff. We can roll back the wiki to previous versions (we have an unlimited number of undos) so wrecking other people's projects is pointless - it's also annoying, and if you do this you'll find your access blocked.

• You can now make an art gallery for your dokuwiki page! Just use the gallery function. Here's how.