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The Workstation
The Workstation is a mananged office space for cultural businesses. It is located in the same building as The Showroom Cinema and was converted from an art deco building which was foremly a Kennings car dealership, opening in 199X. Its reception area provides exhibition space with an upper floor overlooking the mainspace via a square glass-fenced area.
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The Showroom Cinema
The Showroom Cinema is an independent cinema, café bar and creative workspace in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter. It is housed in a 1936 art deco building which was formerly the Kennings car dealership. It first opened in 1993 with two screens; further phases of development have added another two screens, a bar and cafe and a meeting room.
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Site Gallery
Site Gallery was established as a photographic gallery in 1979 and has been based at Brown Street in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter since 1988. It is an international centre for contemporary art, specialising in moving image, new media and performance based art and has extensive programme of exhibitions, conferences, artists talks and festivals. It was originally called Untitled Gallery.
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Showroom Bar
Bar area as part of The Showroom, which provides food, drinks and event space.
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Online
Lovebytes website featured net.art as part of a Web Gallery at www.lovebytes.org.uk/gallery and excerpts from digital shorts at eee.lovebytes.org.uk/lbtv
Selected recordings and photographs from Lovebytes were uploaded to Lovebytes TV(a YouTube Channel) and to Flickr.
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National Centre for Popular Music
The National Centre for Popular Music was a museum in Sheffield, England, designed by Nigel Coates for pop and rock music and contemporary culture generally. It was largely funded by the National Lottery and cost £15 million. It opened on 1 March 1999, but due to lack of ticket sales, went into administration soome eight months later and and closed in June 2000.
The building consists of four giant stainless steel drums, surrounding an atrium area, the upper floor of which has a glazed roof. Each of the drums has a rotating turret with a nozzle which is meant to turn with the wind and vent air.
After its closure it briefly became a live music venue from July 2001, before being purchased by Sheffield Hallam University in 2003 and used as their Student Union building until 2024.
Lovebytes events were staged there as part of Lovebytes 2000, prior to its closure, for Pitchbend (a Lovebytes project celebrating sport and art) in 2000 and in again at Lovebytes 2001, as it stood unused. Video was also projected on to the building unofficially.
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Screen 3, The Showroom
Screen 3 in The Showroom Cinema was the auditorium used most by Lovebytes. The cinema originally had two screen with the addition of 3 and 4 in 1998. It seats 178 people, although seats were occassionally removed to allow equipment such as a mixing desk to be set up during events. Seats are arranged in a block with 'gangways' each side and lighting tracks to highlight these. There is a walkway behind the seats, at the back of the autitorium, where a camera was set up on a tripod during the festival to film events.
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Access Space
Access Space is an arts and education organisation, where people interested in art, design, computers, recycling, music, electronics, photography and more, meet like-minded people, share and develop skills. They engage with and encourage a very broad section of the community to get involved with artistic, creative and technical projects. They use recycled computer technology and the open source operating system Linux. They advocate using free and Open Source software, help people to install Linux and a suite of free software on their computers at no cost to themselves.