The cyberformance platform UpStage and its annual festival offers artists many audio-visual possibilities for the presentation of live, online performance – and in many cases the presence of text is still at the forefront of the work. One such performance, featured in the 11:11:11 UpStage […]
As AUT students Heath Behrens and Vibhu Patel prepare for their final exams after a year working on the UpStage project, they have uploaded to SourceForge the beta version of UpStage 2.4.1 – congratulations and thank you! The new code will be implemented on the […]
Here in UpStage-land we are all very focussed on preparations for the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival, now only two weeks away. The artists are putting the final touches on their avatars, the recorders are making a schedule, everyone is spreading the word … Meanwhile in cyberspace, […]
The 11:11:11 UpStage Festival is not the only transnational live art event taking place on Friday 11 November: 11 European cities are taking part in Exchange Radical Moments, a festival of “moments of encounter and confrontation in the heart of everyday life”. More than 60 […]
The next performance of make-shift will be on Saturday 15 October 2011, at 8.30pm Serbian time (find your local time here), taking place between an apartment in Novi Sad, Serbia, a house in Exeter, UK and online. To join the performance online, go to https://www.make-shift.net […]
UpStage is one of seven artists’ projects featured in Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art. This online resource was commissioned by the Arts Council England and can also be found here on the ACE web site. Collaboration and Freedom […]
The schedule of performances for the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival will be announced at an online event on 11 October 2011 – at 11pm European time, which will be 10am on the 12th if you’re in New Zealand. If you’re somewhere else, find your local time […]
make-shift will be performed on Saturday 20th August at 10am UK time, as part of Legacy & Challenge, the 25th anniversary festival of The Magdalena Project. Online audiences join the performance via a purpose-built interface that combines UpStage with audio-visual streaming. The performance starts at […]
The next open walk-through will take place on Wednesday 3 August 2011, at 10am European time or 8pm if you’re in New Zealand. If you’re somewhere else, click here to convert to your local time. The walk-through is for newcomers to learn the basic operations […]
The Net & the Butterfly is an allegorical cyberformance about the challenges of documenting live online performance, created and presented in UpStage by Francesco Buonaiuto, Helen Varley Jamieson and Vicki Smith. Constructed from the digital traces of past cyberformances, it is simultaneously a performative presentation […]
