A 5-minute lightning performance will be given as part of the LGM presentation in Vienna, on Thursday 3 May at 6pm CET.

Click here to witness this brief flash of cyberformance electricity!.

Jenny Pickett from APO33 will be giving her part of the LGM presentation via UpStage, just before the lightning performance and on the same stage; so if you turn up early – about 5.45pm CET – you will also catch her presentation.

An “UpStage Apero” will be held at the Electropixel Festival in Nantes, France on Thursday 24 May. The event will begin with an UpStage workshop, then a presentation by Helen Varley Jamieson, followed by a jam by workshop participants and two performances that have been previously presented at UpStage festivals: “Flat Earth” and “Veni! Ελθέ! Dodji! to the Zapata Private/Pirate Birthday Party. And, Vice Versa …”.

Both performances will be accessible to online audiences – there will be live links here on the day, and time converter links once the precise time is confirmed for each show.

“Flat Earth”, by Petyr Veenstra, Floris Sirag and Gabriella Sacco, premiered last year at the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival. A poetic journey on the source of ideas, it plays with perception, the focus, the distraction of it, time, size and distance, the imagination, and the memory of things and scenes.

From the 080808 festival, we have “Veni! Ελθέ! Dodji! to the Zapata Private/Pirate Birthday Party. And, Vice Versa …”, a “cyber dedication to the birthday celebration of Emiliano Zapata” by Miljana Peric and collaborators. Partysans are invited to Come! to listen and play music, make some noise, to clap, chant, chit- and cheat-chat in the name of Zapata, or just in their own name.

Electropixel is organised annually by APO33 and this year takes place 21-26 May.

Helen Varley Jamieson and Martin Eisenbarth will attend, and Jenny Pickett from APO33 will participate in the presentations remotely. We will give a talk at 5.30pm on Thursday 3 May, followed by a 5-minute “Lightning performance” at 6pm (Central European Time) which will be accessible online – there will be a live link here on the day.

On Friday 4th at 1pm, Martin will lead a work session, which will give participants the chance to learn more about the new system and to get involved in its development.

The Libre Graphics Meeting is an annual event that brings together software developers, artists, designers and other graphics professionals for collaboration, learning and exchange.

Here’s an illustration by Tom Lechner of participants at the LGM – see if you can spot Helen & Martin!

The next open walk-through will take place on Wednesday 4 April at 2pm Central European time; this equates to 5am in Vancouver, 8am in New York, 9am in Chile, 1pm in the UK, 7.30pm in India, 10pm in Queensland, Australia … or find your local time here.

This open walk-through is specifically for people who are planning to submit a proposal to the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance (read the call details here). If you have any questions, are seeking collaborators, and/or want to learn more about how to create live performance in UpStage, please come to the walk-through (if this time doesn’t work for you, email zn.gro.egatspunull@ofni and we will endeavour to find another time to meet with you during the first week of april).

To request a guest log-in for the walk-through, email zn.gro.egatspunull@ofni. The walk-through will take place on the walk-through stage – log in at http://upstage.org.nz:8084 (if you have problems or would like to observe the walk-through as audience, you can enter the stage directly here without a log-in).

The call for proposals for the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance closes on 12 April 2012.

The full title of the project is ‘Creation and Publication of the “Digital Manual”: Authority, Authorship and Voice’, and it aims to look at how the Digital Manual can be a paradigm for exploring multi-authorship, co-creation and publication in other digitised textual forms as well as how it can have relevance to the analogue book and serve as a premise to learn valuable lessons.

The other communities in the study are Fake Press, FLOSS Manuals and Sauti ya Wakulima.

For more information and to follow the progress of the study, visit the project web site here: http://sites.ace.ed.ac.uk/digital-manual/.

The symposium will promote exchange between all those who are, for various reasons, concerned with water issues, land management and hydraulic infrastructure, for a better sharing of knowledge and governance.

The symposium is free. It will be introduced by Riccardo Petrella (author of ‘The Water Manifesto’) & Ulay (known for his performances with Marina Abramovic, photo/videographer, activist). Click here to view the programme (with time converter links to find your local times).