This site is getting a make-over, and you’re invited to add your touch: create a banner that says something about what UpStage is for you. The current site was created in 2007, at the time of the launch of UpStage v2 (thanks, Leena!). It’s served […]
Constructed from the digital traces of past cyberformances, The Net and the Butterfly is an allegorical cyberformance about the challenges of documenting live online performance, transforming conventional notions of the separation of ‘live performance’ and ‘performance documentation’. It was created by Francesco Buonaiuto, Helen Varley […]
Join us on the 30th or 31st of July (depending on your locale). Europeans your evening (10pm Wednesday 30th), Antipodeans come along 8am Thursday 31st. If you’re somewhere else, click here to find your local time. The open walkthrough is an opportunity for anyone to […]
For two weeks in March 2014, I was artist-in-residence at the University of Creative Arts, Farnham (UK) at the invitiation of Yuwei Lin, course leader for Media and Communications. I had never been to Farnham before. It is an historic town in south England, situated […]
The next performance of Balloon will be at 19.00 CET on Thursday 13 March, as part of the UCA cyberformance programme. The evening begins at 18.00 CET with an introduction, and performance by Helen Varley Jamieson and UCA workshop participants. There will be time for […]
In December last year, while we were preoccupied with preparations for the UpStage 10th Birthday, we learned the sad news that Vivian Kendall, the “real-life typist” of Second Life avatar Osprey Therian, had passed away. The UpStage community came to know Osprey Therian during 2011, […]
There will be an open walkthrough on Thursday 6 March, from 9am-11am UK time. Find your local time here. This is open to the public, and is part of a residency at the University of the Creative Arts in Farnham, UK, where students of film […]
The UpStage planning meeting took place during Thursday 9th and Friday 10th January 2014 at the open source community gallery 19 Tory Street. It was attended by Vicki Smith, Helen Varley Jamieson, Anne Philpott, Vanessa Henderson, Nikos Phillips, and Dan Untitled in Wellington, with online […]
MagFest KISS, special wEDding edition, is a night of music and performance taking place in Amsterdam on the night of Tuesday February 18. The evening includes exhibitions of photos and drawings, poetry, theatre, sound improvisation, and two cyberformances taking place in UpStage: Balloon and LoveJam. […]
The 10th birthday of UpStage was celebrated on 9-10 January 2014 with events in Wellington (NZ), Munich (Germany) and of course online. Performances, presentations, a planning meeting and the launch of UpStage v3 were on the programme. In Wellington, we based ourselves in the open […]
