UpStage has received funding through the NZ Government’s Digital Strategy’s Community Partnership Fund. The grant will subsidise “phase 2” development of the software and community workshops, enabling communities to create their own content for the online medium. Read the full media release (PDF, 64KB).
Vicki Smith and Helen Varley Jamieson attended SCANZ, a two-week artists’ residency in New Plymouth, NZ, in the first two weeks of July. As well as working on Avatar Body Collision projects and collaborating with other artists, Vicki and Helen gave workshops and presentations in […]
A series of artists’ “swarays” are being held in UpStage, hosted by Aotearoa Digital Arts. The first took place at 9pm NZ time on Sunday 7 May, the second on June 11 and the third was held during SCANZ on Sunday 9 July and featured […]
Four final-year computer science students at Auckland University of Technology have chosen UpStage as their major group project for the year. They will work on improvements and enhancements to the software, which will be greatly appreciated by the UpStage project team and everyone who is […]
Helen taught an UpStage course at the Computing Women’s Congress at Waikato University. The participants prepared a live performance, “Indigenous Maniacs“, which was performed on Thursday 16 February at 12.45 pm NZ time and repeated at the March open walk-through. Watch a recording of the […]
January 24 2006: Vicki and Helen presented UpStage remotely, with Douglas on-site in Dunedin to answer all the tricky technical questions. This event was attached to linux.conf.au 2006
UpStage was presented at the ADA symposium, _Emerge_, in Dunedin NZ on 26 November. The family JeanRichard, from Switzerland, created a performance in UpStage which they presented live on 29 October, 10am western Europe time. The performance was called Life[2] and more information is available […]
In December 2004, UpStage entered into a new server hosting partnership with Wellington internet provider CityLink. Read the full media release (Word document). Regular open sessions began in October, to give people the opportunity for a hands-on introduction to UpStage. Vicki Smith gave a presentation […]
UpStage Version 1 was launched on 9 January 2004, at 6pm NZ time, at MediaLab South Pacific in Wellington, New Zealand and also online in UpStage. The online audience members were located in Auckland, New York, and somewhere else we haven’t identified yet, and Avatar […]
The initial development of UpStage received funding from the Smash Palace Collaboration Fund, a joint fund established by Creative New Zealand and the NZ Ministry of Research, Science and Technology to encourage collaborations between artists and scientists. MediaLab South Pacific was a project partner in […]
