Thursday 6
EVENT: Absynthesis
8.30-11.30pm / National Centre for Popular Music / Bar / FREE
A journey into the world of the Absinthe drinker, with a soundtrack to match:

Barry 7 (Add N to X)
The Fat Controller (Irdial)
Grassy Noel (Hale Street)
J.P. Buckle (The All Seeing I)

Friday 7
EVENT: Hot Snack
6-6.45pm / Showroom Bar / FREE
Hot Snack will be serving-up a dinnertime set in the Showroom Bar.

Saturday 8
EVENT: c90
9.30 till late / Showroom Bar / FREE
End of Festival night featuring:
Hot Snack
Alex Peverett (Team Doyobi)
Alistair Leslie (Antenna Farm)
Jim Backhaus (Kosmiche)

LAUNCH: Access Space
Log In, Log Out. Challenging High-Tech Consumerism
11am-7pm
Sheffield's trash computer activists Redundant Technology Initiative have networked their trailing edge technology to create the UK's first open access trash tech media lab, ACCESS SPACE.

ACCESS SPACE is a networked community like London's seminal Backspace - with one crucial difference - the technology costs nothing. The hardware has been given to the project or salvaged from skips, and the whole thing is powered by 100% legal free software. ACCESS SPACE advocates LINUX.

Throughout the festival come and talk to Redundant Technology Initiative at ACCESS SPACE and check out how to get online with zero cost technology. Over the three days ACCESS SPACE will be hosting Vivid's "ByteSized" commissions - new work by six artists working with 1mB of disk space (www.vivid.org.uk/bytesize/). On Saturday 8th see Paul Granjon present the robotic "birds" flocking in ACCESS SPACE and discuss his low-tech approach to cybernetics.

Contribute your trash machines to the Access Space network. A 486/50 or better, or a pair of 16mB SIMMS gets you one month's free ACCESS SPACE membership!

Access Space - www.lowtech.org

Saturday 8
DISCUSSION: Bastard TV / 'Free Introductory Offer'
12-1.00pm / Workstation Conference Room 1 / FREE
Creative and cultural possibilities of combined Television, New Media and Live Performance.

'The digital revolution promises artists creative powers beyond our wildest dreams. And mass fulfilment for the masses. So far what we've actually got is home shopping, home banking, web casts of Disney favourites and "interactive" soap opera endings. There must be something cultural to the digital cultural revolution.
But What is it?

Bastard Television promotes artistic, creative use of combined Television, New Media and Live Performance (i.e. live performance links to the web, combined television and internet content delivery, net music creation, transgressive gaming, radio and net streaming, simultaneous live music webcasts, television linked interactive installations). Curious to know the opportunities for foul and gorgeous miscellaneous artforms? The come along.' - Andy Stamp

Want to find out more about Bastard? Email: anything@bluedoor.u-net.com