LoveBytes Photo Gallery from the lovebytes festival 2003
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"I got a pass and I've come for the whole festival. During my sculpture degree I started using computers I'm trying to find out what I want to do with them now and the festivasl is helping. I did an MA in Computer Aided Graphical Tech.

I found the Ardman talk really helpful. It remained me that it's not all about what software you know. It's hard to know what different industries actually want so that was very helpful.

The Stormfront talk was interesting. I enjoyed the Warp 3 shorts very much. I actually nearly animated one of those monologues for Chris Morris. I'm just dipping into all areas at the moment. Douglas headthorn

[Re:Jet Star]
"I thought it was brilliant, but I though Groove Visuals and Devil Robot should have been in there" Mike Downey

"The train stuff and the dog stuff was amazing, that guy who did the Honda adverts" Tom Hack

"I've really got to give full tribute to my man over there, Michael because it was his idea to come check this out and it was definitely worth it. Power Graphics, they did a little short and I wanted to get excited but I had to contain myself because I was in a cinema, but I'm going to go home and get out my trampoline. Overall I think it was really impressive and recommendable to anyone" Hassan Tarossin

[Re:Lia + @C performance]
"Very textured piece given the limited palates, although he was in deep shadow the guy who was contributing the vocals was very dynamic -they should have had him lit up. Whats missing in new media perfiormances is the physical body." Jonathan Allam artisit London

"Relief to come out I could almost go and look at a tree now. Very digital and electronic… but a narrative or pictures that were less digital would have suited the music, that would have been nice."
Nicky Gomez Head of New Media Arts Waterlands Art Centre London

[Re:J-Star2]

"I do media production and visual arts and music lots of shit. That was cool man!"
Thomas Architecture student Rome Italy

"Really fucked up stuff from the Japanese. Really cool. Looking forward to Tina Frank and Timdeyobe"
Davida Rome Italy

"We saw the end of those DSP3 performancers. Interesting but as the voice said at the end of the performance…let me out of here and I think had I been in there an hour I think I would be thinking the same! I was interested in the correlation between the music and the pictures though.

We were just at the site gallery and thought the interactive shadows were brilliant, very entertaining, charming and interesting for all ages. We watched the small children and they were thrilled to bits and galloping around and we went and where very scientific in our viewing but either way there was obviously great enjoyment to be had. We came over from Barnsley especially for the talk and didn't realise we had the book so we're going to go and queue and see if somebody doesn't come!"
Anthea Price

"Havent exprerienced anything like that before' 'I found myself going into suspended animation nearly. Unbelivable. My head was rolling around. Trippy and europhic"
Marcus, English Student Sheffield

"I went to Auto and Ether, that's what started my interest. And listening to orchestral music and Sqaurepusher and Aphex Twin. My mate gave me a ticket at the bar but in retrospect I should have bought a festival pass"
Jerome, Econominc and Socialogy.

"Bit generic for my liking" Christian Lloyd, Lecturer, Leeds College of Art & Design
"A lot to take in. Captivating but too much for me to be honest" Rob Leeds Advertising student
"Interesting but I don't see what it was trying to get at." Tony, Leeds A&D
"Asethetically pleasing but couldn't find a concept at all" 'David, Leeds A&D
"You have to have indurance for it. I like the style of it yeah" Pauline, Leeds A&D
"Repatarive overall, but I'd like to see some more stuff if it was a bit shorter" Jeremy, Leeds A&D

"I'm an artist from NYC . I though the Chris Watson performance was amazing I though it was really consuming and beautiful. I actually preferred just the sound, maybe because I'm in a state of severe sleep deprivation, I'm jetlagged! Liz Rozanfelt
"I thought the morphed artists shorts were weak but I liked the Warp films. The first piece was like average childrens tv, second was a surfacey piece of motion graphics. It was directed by a friend of mine actually so I'm looking forward to give him a ring cos I didn't like it the first time round"
Matthew Filmmaker Birmingham
[Re: Nobukazu Takemura performance]
"It was something different, never really been to something like that before so it was good to see it. I'm planning to do a masters next year in graphics so that's the sort of thing I'm looking at, audio visual mixing so that's what attracted me too it"
Jess Corum
"I've just seen Chris Watson..I though it was quite interesting how they married the sounds of the irregular patterns you get in nature with the irregular patterns in the music, but generally not my cup of tea"
Martin Hogg Musician
"Carsten Nicolai...Varations of shapes to diverse music. Really good"
Sophie Randall, France/Wales, Development Studies Student
"I think it's good to come and see what's going on with digital work and I've recently got a new Mac so I'm being geeky with the programmes. Animated audio I though was excellent, very diverse range of stuff, really liked the first one slicing up the bird with the sounds. I really like the integration between the sounds and the visuals, it worked really well. Matt Kelly student, fine art time-based media
"Just seen Carsten Nicolai..I really liked bits of it I kind of drifted out of it abit. Sometimes I was bored and some bits were really cool, I liked the visuals. Sometimes your brain couldn't compute what was actually going on.
Catherine Gravelin
"Really enjoyed Kurt Ralske, I liked it because he used real pictures and he turned it into something digital, that's like acoustic combined with electronics. The other 2 performances used digital materials only. I play in a band called Osolator in Japan, my band just released a CD this March, it's avant garde I play violins, also computers and some Chinese instruments as well" www.clayrec.com Mikio & Junko

"J-star2..really good - seen some of their stuff before. We're both really interested in Japanese graphics and illustration so it was a really good mixture. Not as experimental as some of them, so it was entertaining as well. Mainly came to see onedotzero, I like the stuff they curate but were having a general look around at the exhibitions/vids" Steven & Richard - Web designer /Graphic Illustration
Photography/Interviews Vicky Morris & Alison Coldwell