Camera and edit by Richard Bolam.

Video edited by Laurence Alexander at Access Space in Sheffield.

Opening Night: 17:30 – Doors open 18:30 – Artist’s talk 19:00 – Video projection 19:30 – Drinks 20:00 – Phantasmata 20:15 – Noise Jam The Noise Jam features xname with the participation of Sheffield locals and workshop’s attendants!! More about Phantasmata here: xname.cc/phantasmata All FREE/OPEN/WELCOME You cannot miss it!!!

[Photos by Susanne Palzer] Urban interventions… From an email I received from one of the workshop’s participant, who has been monitoring the objects after Sunday’s insertions: “It was an interesting experience to be drawn back to them like a criminal to the site of the crime!“

A moment of affection between creature and creator [Photo by Susanne Palzer]. From Do androids dream of electric sheep? Philip K. Dick, 1968 “This building, except for my apartment, is completely kipple-ized.” “Kipple-ized’?” She did not comprehend. “Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum [...]

In abstract terms, the creation – or recognition – of a Noise_Object includes the following phases: – transmutation: selecting and cleaning the source material, from refusal matter becomes precious material – composition: different parts are connected in order to create something else, a new object/entity – objectification: focus on identification: when is the piece complete? [...]

Sheffield seems like the perfect place for Noise_Objects insertions: its red bricks and the industrial look-a-like call for interventions. These objects, in fact, are also a reflection about technology and industrialisation: before that, pollution and garbage almost did not exist, whereas today their presence is massive and invasive. Writer Philip Dick named it Kipple, and [...]

Collect your old toys and any other interesting scrap material which stimulates your imagination and join us at Access Space. We will build a series of sculptures made of recycled material, simple electronic components and basic micro circuits. These objects, powered by solar panels, will be animated by the diy electronic devices we will embed [...]

I am currently artist in residence in Sheffield, at Access Space, an astonishing community project which embodies the shape of a hacklab and that of an art gallery, mixed with something else which is difficult to explain. The idea is to build autonomous machines made of recycled material, a serie of assembled sculptures which will [...]

Abstract “The technical object exists not only by virtue of its functioning in exterior devices (…) but by virtue of phenomena of which it is, itself, the centre. This is why it possesses a fecundity or non-saturation which grants it a progeny. … Many abandoned technical objects are incomplete inventions which remain as an open-ended [...]