Various times, Friday 22, Saturday 23 & Sunday 24
Sheffield's free media lab "Access Space" presents a series of workshops and demonstrations showing you how to recondition and get creative with old and abandoned computers, showing how the cutting edge can cost next to nothing... continuing the theme of technological obsolescence.
Fri 22nd: 7:30pm-9:00pm
"What is Grow Your Own Media Lab?" Presentation by artist and free tech advocate James Wallbank
Sat 23rd: 12-2pm
Installing Linux - How to get Free, Open Source Software running on your machine
Sat 23rd: 4-6pm
Key Applications - OpenOffice, GIMP, Firefox, Thunderbird
Sun 24th: 12-2pm
Networking for Free - Fileservers, Routers, Firewalls... clever stuff!
Sun 24th: 3-5pm
Building Web Pages - HTML from the ground up
Places are limited so please book by email futuresonic@lowtech.org (or call 0161 2371832).
The Basement*, 24 Lever Street, off Picadilly Gardens
Find The Basement using this map of the Northern Quarter.
View Futuresonic 2005 venue details
*The Basement is a positive, alternative cafe, bookshop, resource centre and exhibition space run by volunteers