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Lovebytes
Websitewww.lovebytes.org.uk

Lovebytes is a digital arts organisation based in Sheffield, UK, established in 1994 and best known for the Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Art.[1] Founded by Jon Harrison[2] and Janet Jennings[3] who are the directors of the organisation.

Lovebytes[4] explores the cultural and creative potential of digital technology. The festival is a platform for innovative and experimental new work in the fields of digital art, music, film, interactive media and creative software. The programme includes specially commissioned multimedia performances and interactive installations in public spaces supported by film screenings, talks, workshops and educational projects. Lovebytes is a not-for-profit limited company supported by the Arts Council England.

History of Lovebtyes

Lovebytes was founded by Jon Harrison and Janet Jennings who are the directors of the organisation.Lovebytes has held many festivals between the years 1994 and 2012. Works from this festival has been placed in different locations accross sheffield attracting a lot of media attention. In the late 1990's lovebytes also did some collaborative festivals/ events, e.g Lovebytes / Senti-ents at The Unit.1999. In May 2000 Lovebytes released its first publication DSP 1 Audio CD and CD ROM and after that went on to release two more,DSP 2 Volatile Media DVD publication and exhibition released March 2002.
Including work by People Like, Alex Peverett, Butler Brothers, Steve Hawley. DSP 3 CD ROM publication and exhibition released in March 2003.
Featuring. Nullpointer, Lia.mc, Kurt Ralske, Dextro. Lovebytes had over 75,000 visitors in 2010 and runs various educational projects introducing young people to creative technology and computer programming through a range of playful and imaginative arts activities. They also work with schools, colleges, universities, clubs, art galleries, libraries, community centers and interact with interested poeple in public spaces.

Festivals & Events

Multimedia Revue. (1994), a Lovebytes event featuring (Burn:Cycle / Virtual Nightclub). Venues: Showroom Workstation Sheffield [5]

Lovebytes.(1995) Featuring James Wallbank[6] Venues: Workstation (Sheffield) & United Gallery, Sheffield.

Lovebytes Digital Art and Multimedia Festival. (1996) Featuring Sera Furneaux,[7][8] Lulu Quinn[9] Venues: Showroom Cinema, Workstation and Site Gallery.[10]

Lovebytes Festival. (1998) Featuring Farmers Manual,[11] Pita (Peter Rehberg). Venues: Showroom Cinema,[12] Workstation and various around Sheffield City Centre.

Digital Originals (2000) Lovebytes festival[13] Showroom Cinema, Sheffield (6–8 April).

Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Art. (2001) Featuring Florian Hecker[14]Richard Chartier.[15] Venues: Showroom Cinema & National Centre for Popular Music, Sheffield.

Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Art. (2002) Featuring: Scanner (Robin Rimbaud),[16] Yasunao Tone.[17] Venues: Showroom Cinema, Millennium Galleries, Persistence Works, Sheffield Independent Film.

Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Art. (2003) Featuring: Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto),Chris Watson,[18][19] Nobukazu Takemura, General Magic. Venues: Showroom Cinema, Exhibitions at Site Gallery 15 Feb - 22 March.

Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Art. (2005) Featuring: Peter Greenaway,[20] Francisco López (musician)[21] Venues: Showroom Cinema, Workstation Studio, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield Independent Film & Site Gallery (14 April - 18 June).

Environments International Festival of Digital Art and Media, Lovebytes. (2006) Featuring Francis Dhomont[22] (2006),Carl Michael von Hausswolff.[23] Venues: Showroom Cinema, Millennium Galleries, Workstation, Site Gallery, University of Sheffield Union of Students. News story covered at BBC Website- International Festival of Digital Art & Media, 2006. [24]

Lovebytes. Process (2007) Featuring Biosphere (musician) aka (Geir Jenssen)[25] Yasunao Tone, Owl Project[26] Venues: Sheffield Winter Gardens,[27] Sheffield Central Library, Showroom Cinema, Site Gallery, University of Sheffield Union of Students, Millennium Galleries, The Moorlands Centre (Edale).[28]

Lovebytes. Digital Art in Sheffield. (2008) Featuring and, Stephen Mathieu,[29] Advanced Beauty,[30] Universal Everything.[31] Venues: Showroom Cinema, Millennium Galleries, Sylvester Space, Access Space Sheffield.[32]

A Festival of Digital Creativity and Culture. January–June. (2010) Featuring: C E B Reas,[33][34] Golan Levin,[35] Mehmet Akten,[36] Francisco Lopez,[37] Mark Fell [38] Venues: Millennium Galleries,[39] Winter Garden, Electric Works, Persistence Works.

Lovebytes- Digital Spring. (2012) Featuring: Alan Turing Centenary Exhibition,[40][41] MegaDork,[42] OneDotZero ,[43] Daniel Brown[44] Jana Winderen[45] Venues: Showroom Cinema, Sheffield Central Library, Meadowhall Shopping Centre,[46] Upper Chapel, Winter Garden.

Other Projects

Paradise Website Commission (1997) Paradise. is a web project [47] initiated by the innovative UK arts ensemble Forced Entertainment Commissioned by Lovebytes as part of the Channel Metropolis series, funded by the Arts Council England

Hypertribes (1998) City wide new media public art installations.[48][49] Showroom Cinema, Sheffield (16 March - 25 April)

  • Event Details:
  • Vanishing points of view[50] by Mike Lawson Smith [51] at Furnival Gate
  • Stone Troupers [52] by Steve Hawley[53] & Jonathan Allen[54] at Division Street
  • Hyperphilately[55] by Simon Poulter [56] at Sheffield Post Office, Fitzalan Square
  • Provincially/Provisionally [57] by Andrew Stones[58] at Sheffield's New Town Hall
  • Flocked[59] by Lulu Quinn[60] at the House of Fraser in Sheffield High Street
  • Remote Systems [61] Premium Leisure at Ponds Forge Sports Centre[62] in Commercial Street

Lovebytes Lite (2003) Live performances by Mark Fell[63] and Jez Potter (SND, Shirt Trax).[64] at Sheffield Millennium Gallery.

Lovebytes (2005-2009)[65] A plasma screen installation at Sheffield Millennium Gallery. in collaboration with Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust.

Digital Space (2006-2008) [66][67] Showroom Cinema. A programme of events and exhibitions in collaboration with Showroom Workstation. Including work by: Vicki Bennett[68][69] (People Like Us), Blast Theory,[70] Steve Hawley,[71] Derek Lodge,[72] Terry Smith,[73] Single Shot,[74] Simon Warner,[75] Caroline Locke,[76] Andrew Kotting,[77] Janek Schaefer, Nullpointer.[78]

The Big Byte (2009)[79] The Big Byte was a year long-programme of events supported by Arts Council England and Screen Yorkshire[80] and delivered in partnership by various community organisations in Sheffield including: Sheffield Children's Festival,.[81] Sheffield Young Singers[82] and Showcomotion Film Festival.[83]

Designosaurs! (2011)[84][85] A digital art project combining craft, computers and the creative imaginations of over 1,500 Sheffield school children, culminating in an interactive exhibition at the Sheffield Children's Festival.[86][87]

Publications

DSP 1 Audio CD and CD ROM released in May 2000. Part of the Digital Space Programme, a commissioning scheme for exhibition digital publications.

DSP 2 Volatile Media DVD publication and exhibition released March 2002. Including work by People Like us, Alex Peverett,[88] Steve Hawley.[89]

DSP 3 CD ROM publication and exhibition released in March 2003. Featuring. Nullpointer,.[90]

References

  1. ^ [1] Digital Artist tool up article (march 2003) Retrieved 01-03-2014
  2. ^ [2] Jon harrison ltd. Company profile Retrieved 01-03-2014
  3. ^ [3] Janet Jennings Company profile Retrieved 01-03-2014
  4. ^ [4] Festival explores symbiosis between craft and digital art (2010) Retrieved 01-03-2014
  5. ^ Showroom Workstation; Sheffield, UK, retrieved 28/2/14
  6. ^ Access Space: James Wallbank James Wallbank- artist, educator and CEO of Digital arts venue, "Access Space", Sheffield, UK, retrieved 26/2/14.
  7. ^ Sera Furneaux- "Kissing" art exhibition, "...Kissing brings together the ever increasing human need to collect 'in the world experiences", commisioned by Lovebytes(1996), retrieved 28/2/14
  8. ^ Sera Furneaux University College London art exhbits profile, mentions "Smoked Salmon" exhibit (1995), retrieved 02/03/14
  9. ^ "BBC UK Multimedia art gets streetwise", features Lulu Quin in Lovebytes "HyperTribes" festival. (BBC, 1998), retrieved 26/2/14.
  10. ^ The Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK, retrieved 28/2/14.
  11. ^ Farmers Manual BBC Biography, "...Farmers Manual is an electronic music and visual art group, founded in Vienna in the beginning of the 1990s.", BBC, retrieved 28/2/14
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  13. ^ http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/such-byte-love-lovebytes-festival Such a byte of love (Lovebytes Festival 2000)
  14. ^ Florian Hecker,MIT lecturer profile, art, culture and tehcnology faculty (Attended Lovebytes, 2001), retrieved 1/3/14
  15. ^ Richard Chartier webpage, "Visual exhibit", "...Design in Miniature @ Lovebytes" (2001) (Sheffield, UK), retrieved 28/2/14
  16. ^ Robin Rimbaud- 'Scanner' digital artist webpage, "Selected Individual Exhibit"- Lovebytes (2000), retrieved 1/3/14
  17. ^ Yasunao Tone Biography, (Lovebytes group concert) "...YASUNAO TONE, a co-founder of Group Ongaku and an original member of Fluxus", retrieved 1/3/14
  18. ^ Chris Watson's personal site, notable work and current projects, retrieved 25/2/14
  19. ^ The "Storm" project, a University of York publication, Rymer Auditorium, "Musical Storms across the North Sea...a live performance of extraordinary detail and complexity", by Chris Watson & BJNilsen, supported, by Lovebytes (Section 2, Pg3), dated 5th Feb 2007, retrieved 25/2/14
  20. ^ Peter Greenaway Bio, Wayne (webmaster) and Peter Greenaway at the Lovebytes Digital Arts Festival in Sheffield, England, April 2005, retrieved 1/3/14
  21. ^ Francisco López, Performance and sound installations, Lovebytes, (2005) Showroom (Sheffield, UK), retrieved 1/3/14
  22. ^ Digicult digital art, design and culture: Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Art, Francis Dhomont performing live, retrieved 1/3/14
  23. ^ Carl Michael von Hausswolff's C.V.- (Concerts and performances), Lovebytes (2006),Sheffield, UK, retrieved 1/3/14
  24. ^ BBC website, Lovebytes article, 2006, retrieved 25/2/14
  25. ^ Lovebytes "Process", installation, Sheffield "...Biosphere will transform the Winter Gardens into a sound and light instillation exploring the relationship between music and nature.", BBC, 2007, retrieved 01/03/14.
  26. ^ The Owl Project: "...is a collaborative group of artists...they work with wood and electronics to fuse sculpture and sound art, creating music making machines, interfaces and objects which intermix pre-steam and digital technologies.", 2014, http://owlproject.com/biography retrieved 28/2/14.
  27. ^ The Winter Gardens, Sheffield, UK, retrieved 01/03/14.
  28. ^ About the lovebytes festival, University of Sheffield Sheffield Union of Students, The Moorlands Center, Edale.(http://bloc.org.uk/whats-exciting/festivals/lovebytes-festival-4/), 2007, retrieved 28/2/14
  29. ^ Sheffield Telegraph- Lovebytes, Lovebytes digital art in one weekend, featuring Stephan Mathieu, (digital sound performance), 2008, retrieved 01/03/14.
  30. ^ "Advanced Beauty" Lovebytes Preview Screening (2008), Alexander Peverett's portfolio/video art, retrieved 01/03/14
  31. ^ Universal Everything: project to design 20,000 generative postcards, Lovebytes (2008), retrieved 01/03/14
  32. ^ Access Space Sheffield, Digital arts venue: Access Space Sheffield, retrieved 25/2/14
  33. ^ Lovebytes presents Code:Craft, features C E B Reas, ArtRabbit,(2010), retrieved 01/03/14
  34. ^ C E B Reas website, Official C E B Reas page, featured in Code:Craft. Millennium Gallery. Sheffield, UK. 27 Jan - 16 Jun 2010, retrieved 01/03/14.
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  36. ^ Mehmet Akten website, dates/exhibitions,Exhibition , Body Paint & Gold, Lovebytes Digital Arts Festival/Lovebytes Pocket Universe, Sheffield, UK, http://www.memo.tv/category/dates/, retrieved 01/03/14.
  37. ^ Francisco Lopez: Millenium Gallery (2010, Sheffield, UK) - Lovebytes Festival, retrieved 1/3/14
  38. ^ Mark Fell, LoveBytes festival, exhibited work commisioned by Lovebytes in 1998, 2001, and 2010, retrieved: 01/03/14.
  39. ^ Millennium Galleries website, Sheffield, UK, retrieved 1/3/14
  40. ^ Lovebytes 2012: Intuition and Ingenuity: The Impact of Alan Turing, Sheffield, Showroom Workstation (Showroomworkstation.org.uk, 2011), retrieved 26/2/14.
  41. ^ Alan Turing Centenary Arts & Culture website, "...celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing", a touring exhibition of digital art works, retrieved 26/2/14
  42. ^ Sheffield Showroom: Lovebytes: MegaDork, electric/electronic art, "...talks and performances by people doing strange things with electricity", retrieved 02/03/14
  43. ^ Onedotzero official website, 2013, retrieved 25/2/14
  44. ^ (Daniel Brown) Brown-And-Son: Flowers were created specially for Lovebytes Digital Spring, Sheffield 2012, http://www.brown-and-son.com/tagged/lovebytes, retrieved 01/03/14.
  45. ^ Jana Winderen, presents a multichannel sound installation "Spawning Ground" at Lovebytes Festival 2012, http://www.janawinderen.com/exhibitions/lovebytes_sheffield_uk_24th_ma.html#.UxL9Qfl_uSo, retrieved 02/03/14
  46. ^ Meadowhall Shopping Centre website, retrieved 02/03/14
  47. ^ [5] Forced Entertainment (1998) Internet project Retrieved 01-03-2014
  48. ^ [6] LoveBytes Hypertribes Introduction article Retrieved 01-03-2014
  49. ^ [7] BBC News Multimedia art gets streetwise (1998) Retrieved 01-03-2014
  50. ^ [8] Indipendent UK article: The green room: Where Every Surfer Wants to Be (1998) Retrieved 01-03-2014
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  53. ^ [11] Steve Hawley Biography Retrieved 01-03-2014
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  57. ^ [15] Andrew Stones: Collaborative and public art works Retrieved 01-03-2014
  58. ^ [16] Andrew Stone Biography Retrieved 01-03-2014
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  60. ^ [18] Lulu Quinn Statement Retrieved 01-03-2014
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  62. ^ [20] Ponds Forge Sports Centre official website Retrieved 01-03-2014
  63. ^ [21] Mark Fell official website Retrieved 01-03-2014
  64. ^ [22] Good news about space, or london 2000. Joe Potter as Shirt Trax Retrieved 01-03-2014
  65. ^ [23] Giorgio Sancristoforo Screen installation Retrieved 01-03-2014
  66. ^ http://www.digicult.it/news/lovebytes-2007/ Lovebytes 2007 varie locations (13-20 may 2007), Retrieved 01-03-2014
  67. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/articles/2007/05/09/lovebytes_festival_2007_preview.shtml Lovebytes festival BBC article (2007) Retrieved 01-03-2014
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  83. ^ [33] SHOWCOMOTION: YOUNG PEOPLE'S FILM FESTIVAL Retrieved 01-03-2014
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  90. ^ [40] Nullpointer official website Retrieved 01-03-2014


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