Cybercircus
Database Interventions

Our daily lives have been defined by state and corporate databases and now life itself is currently being assimilated into generic databases.

Database interventions is an insurrectionists workshop and event where actual sabotage of existing databases and the definition / construction of as yet non existing databases will take place.

Participants will present past and present actions in the domains of:

Sabotage, Grassing Up, Incrimination, Provocation, Viruses, Intimidation, Eradication, Sampling, Pornography, Spamming, Junk Mail, Auctions, Pranks, Hoaxes, Jamming.

Café Society

Café Society is dedicated to promoting photography and electronic image via the internet and utilising alternative site venues in the cities of Hull, Amsterdam and Sarajevo to exhibit new, young and contemporary photography.

During the Lovebytes weekend visitors to the festival will be given the opportunity to show portfolio's of photography or digital image to us and after viewing we will then scan and place work on the Café Society web site direct from The Workstation.

for further details :-
info@pulsemag.demon.co.uk
http://www.pulsemag.demon.co.uk
t. 01482 445740

Nirvanet Video Conferencing.

Lovebytes seminars and special events will be Video-linked with the Global Theatre Network CyberTheatre in Brussels, the Stockholm-European City of Culture Exhibition and webcast globally via Nirvanet.

GTN/CyberTheatre has a major presence on the Internet with Nirvanet, one of the most visited sites in the world which specialises in multimedia artistic content and new web technologies. The Brussels CyberTheatre is the physical extension of this - a global multimedia events and technology centre. GTN breaks barriers between technology, entertainment and professional needs promoting a positive attitude and lifestyle for the digital generation.

All video-conferencing is thanx to state-of-the-art PictureTel equipment.

Music for: TRANSPARENT CITY

Music for: TRANSPARENT CITY invites members of the public to participate by leaving ANONYMOUS ANSWERPHONE MESSAGES via a dedicated telephone line open for 8 weeks from 20th March to 15th May. The messages will be incorporated and developed into 30-40 minutes of original music using various methods including digital sampling and midi sequencing. Two performances will take place in Sheffield during the autumn (at least one of which will be free) and will include a small string ensemble. Venues t.b.a.
It is anticipated that at times the music will take on the form of a film soundtrack with edited messages providing the dialogue.

What you leave is entirely up to your imagination.

Phone (0114) 267 6020 between the above dates.
During the LOVEBYTES main weekend, 23-25 April, a direct phone line will be made available in the Workstation foyer for visitors to the festival.

Lovebytes Launch Party

8pm 23 April
The Showroom
Admission Free
Farmers Manual (Mego) & PITA (Peter Rehberg) live
with DJ Jean Shirts

Lovebytes Party at NY SUSHI

NY SUSHI represent all forms of forward looking music; drum'n'bass, hip-hop, techno, big beat and nu brit house. Its a weekly Saturday Club Night that takes its style influences from West Coast USA to Manga Madness. Performance artists, giant Playstations, neoprint sticker machines, slide shows, Gangsta B-Movies and Godzilla extravaganzas! With an interior done in the main part by The Designers Republic, NY SUSHI gives us a peek into the future.

Test 1

Kelham Island Industrial Museum,
Alma Street, Sheffield
25 April 1998 1.00 - 11.00
Admission £15 or £6 to Lovebytes Delegate Pass Holders
(see booking info).

Tickets for Test 1 are on sale through record shops from the end of March. Book early!

Senti present Test 1, a festival of music and film. A combination of live artists and djs will be taking part many of whom will be performing exclusive sets written especially for the Test 1 festival. The festival takes over Kelham Island Industrial Museum and will include and audio visual theatre and an open air courtyard, where guests can worships the dj's, prop up the bar and stuff their face. Live acts to include Autechre, Tortoise, Surgeon and Mick Harris (Scorn), Sonic Boom, Turn On, To Rococo Rot, Isotope, Jim O'Rourke, Radioboy (Wishmountain) and Farmers Manual. DJs: Strictly Kev (Ninjatune), Andrea Parker (Mowax), Boards of Canada, Disjecta, Russel Haswell, Chantal (Warp), Rob Hall, Andy Mattocks, Fear of a Crap Planet, Mike Williamson (Skam) and many more.

Inhabiting Metropolis
at The Workstation

Inhabiting Metropolis is a website, an artists project and an ongoing dialogue between practitioners about how they respond to the metaphors of the Net. For this project commissioned artists and writers have been invited to move in, inhabit and unpick concepts like digital space, community and network.
http://www.channel.org.uk/metropolis
Inhabiting Metropolis is developed by Channel and supported by the Arts Council of England.

Forced Entertainment present: PARADISE

PARADISE is an imaginary city based on the world wide web and created through text alone. It is divided into five districts and contains 1,000 named buildings into which members of the public may write their characters, their stories or even themselves.

Responding to the names of the buildings, to the kinds of stories, characters or descriptions entered by other inhabitants or writers PARADISE allows its participants to take part in the evolution of what might lie somewhere between a hybrid novel with 1,000 chapters and a strange poem with 1,000 verses. Your contributions are welcome. The site is officially open from 23 April 1998.
You can find it at:http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/paradise
PARADISE is a web-based collaborative writing project initiated and maintained by Forced Entertainment. It has been made possible by a commission from Lovebytes/Channel/Inhabiting Metropolis Project.

Third Angel - Shallow Water - Performance

Thursday 23 April - Saturday 25 April.

Exhibition and Performance at Forced Entertainment Studio Shoreham Street, Sheffield.
Exhibition - Free 11:00 - 18:00 hrs Performance £2 20:00 hrs meet in Showroom box office foyer at 19:50 hrs.

She washes and she doesn't stop. She washes away the dirty crevices that nobody else can see. She soaks herself in fantasies and grubby little secrets. Her legs dangle in the water and occasionally she wiggles her toes...

'In the centre of the space, there is a large steel bath, five feet square, two feet deep, half full of water polluted with cleaning products. Film plays across the surface of the water, lighting the space around the bath. A metal chair in the corner is lit by a single light bulb. On it is a pile of clean white towels. Too many towels. Piled in another comer are 6000 bars of soap, filling the room with their scent.'

Shallow Water looks at the paradox that we should use water to wash away dirt, grease, shame, guilt, hurt, deception and hate and yet view it as a place of refuge and decadence, somewhere that is shared with a lover, or a luxurious ritual every Sunday night.

Commissioned by the Ferens Art Gallery, with assistance from the Arts Council Of England, Hull City Council and Yorkshire and Humberside Arts. In collaboration with cinematographer Robert Hardy, musician Paul Keatley and sculptor Robin Widdowson of Gotham-D.

http://www.thirdangel.co.uk

Star Dot Star
Site Gallery

A series of lectures and a workshop programme demonstrating the impact of technology on contemporary art practice. The programme takes the form of a presentation on a Wednesday night followed by a one day workshop in the digital darkroom and is aimed at giving participants the opportunity to explore different creative applications employed by each artist. This programme is specifically targeted at those who want to increase their practical skills in new technology. The Wednesday lectures can be attended individually but the workshop programme is an inclusive 5 sessions, which includes the cost of the lectures.

Talks 6.30 pm
Workshops 11.00 am - 4.00 pm
Lectures £2.50 / £1.50
Lecture and Workshop programme Cost £50.00 / £30.00 + Registration cost of £7.50

Bursaries are available to cover fees. Please apply directly to the gallery to book, 0114 281 2077

Redundant Technology Initiative
Redundant Array / Hard Copy

Throughout April, in a Sheffield warehouse, Paul Matosic and James Wallbank will be constructing an installation from scores of computers. Meanwhile, in the Gallery of The Future, John Denaro will transform a stream of faxed images of the developing installation into a parallel work of art.

Help to make it happen by digging your old PC out of the attic or the office store and giving it to the project. Bring your obsolete computers to Redundant Technology Initiative, Sheffield Independent Film, 5 Brown Street, Sheffield or phone 0114 2495522.
Then visit the installation and see your redundant machinery live again!

Redundant Technology Initiative takes redundant computers and uses them to make art. It challenges our easy acceptance of accelerated obsolesence and techno-consumerism. From unauthorised skip raids to corporate appeals, RTI will stop at nothing to liberate PCs thoughtlessly consigned to the landfill.

Warehouse behind 58 Brown Street, Sheffield (opposite Workstation)