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• Yorkshire and Humberside Arts
  Yorkshire and Humberside Arts was one of the ten Regional Arts Boards (RABs) set up in England between 1990 and 2002. The new Boards received the majority of their funding directly from the Arts Council rather than local sources. After the Arts Council of Great Britain was abolished in 1994, the RABs were transferred to a new single body: Arts Council England. In 2001 it was announced that the RABS would be abolished in an effort to streamline the administration of Arts Council England. The Boards closed in April 2002 and smaller regional offices were maintained in the regions.
• Video Production Fund - Arts Council England
  A arts specific funding scheme delivered by Arts Council supporting artists film and video projects, but also new media projects.
• Sheffield City Council - Arts Department
  Sheffield City Council's Arts Department was run by Bill Paton and supported cultural organisations in the city and offered a small grants programme for activity.
• National Lottery - Arts for Everyone Programme
  The National Lottery established in the UK in 1994 as a way to raise funding for good causes including the arts, sport, heritage, film and charities. Arts funding was mananged by the Arts Council.
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  South Yorkshire (UK) was assigned Objective One status between 2000 and 2006 and many of the arts organisations in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter received funding from this scheme. The funding was aimed at economic growth and job creation and needed to be matched with funding from other sources.
• European Regional Development Fund
  The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) was one of the European Commission’s Structural Funds which aims to reduce economic disparities within and between Member States by supporting regeneration and creating and safeguarding jobs. Objective 1 funding was a strand within ERDF designated to regions where GDP is below 75% of the average in the EU.
• Arts Council England
  Arts Council England is a government-funded body dedicated to promoting the performing, visual and literary arts in England. Since 1994, Arts Council England has been responsible for distributing lottery funding.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Showroom Bar
  Bar area as part of The Showroom, which provides food, drinks and event space.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• GM
• Sound Box
• Permasound 01
• Phonolingua: Call My Colour
• Audible Communities
• Sound Toys
• Metal Machine Love Component ^001 Hot Snack [UK]
  Hot Snack was conceived specifically for the digital space commission. The machine was built by A Macgregor and P Fletcher (cross platform) in the Lovebytes Lab, December 1999. A Macgregor previously worked as part of V/VM, and currently works as part of Speedranch^Jansky Noise. Paul Fletcher works as one of the Veilgud Brothers and also works as a location sound recordist for film.
• Hot Snack
• Cul-De-Sac Team Doyobi [UK]
  Team Doyobi are Chris Gladwin and Alex Peverett. They have worked collaboratively for over four years on numerous projects involving elements of sound, video, installation and performance. 'Team Doyobi' represents their current exploration into experimental forms of composition and the art of popular music through digital audio technologies. They have released on Fat Cat Records, Metroplex and are currently working on a project for One Little Indian Records.
• Digital Space Audio
  In the first phase of the Digital Space Programme Lovebytes commissioned nine pieces of sound art which are represented on the audio disc of the Digital Space CD + CD ROM. Where possible the work was produced in residence at the Lovebytes Lab. The resulting collectio is just a taste of the way digital sound processing is becoming a common factor among artists from very diverse backgrounds and involved in previously unrelated areas of "music".