The next performance of make-shift takes place on Saturday 4 February, connecting homes in Brisbane, Australia and Kingsteignton, UK with online audiences around the world. The event happens at 11am UK time, which is 9pm in Brisbane; find your local time here then go to […]
make-shift: saturday 28 january
the next make-shift event is today! saturday 28th january, starting in less than 2 hours … go to the make-shift site and click on the live link (top right-hand corner) to enter the interface.
121212: Testing 1 2, 1 2, 1 2
The new multi-platform programme of the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance features performances that utilise a range of networked technology, from purpose-built cyberformance platforms such as UpStage, Visitors Studio, mosaika.tv and the Tap, to social environments such as Second Life; and are created by artists […]
CyPosium
An online symposium on 12 October 2012 will celebrate and discuss the field of cyberformance – live, online performance – that has evolved over the last two decades. The CyPosium will open with an introduction by Maria Chatzichristodoulou, who is a cultural practitioner and digital […]
Articles about or relevant to UpStage
The “Research” page on the UpStage web site is a gathering of links to articles, books, theses and other relevant information – about UpStage or related in some way. Please let us know if you have written or found material that could be linked to […]
The Downstage blog
Martin Eisenbarth, who is developing DownStage as a completely re-imagined engine for cyberformance, has launched a blog where he will document and discuss the implementation of the new platform. Over the next month he will be working at APO33 in Nantes, France on the implementation […]
UpStage residency and workshop at APO33
RĂ©sidency – Research Apo33 : UPSTAGE : VIRTUAL STAGE & ONLINE COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE An exciting new collaboration between UpStage and APO33, an artists’ collective in Nantes (France), is about to begin. APO33 will host programmer Martin Eisenbarth for a month-long residency to implement his prototype […]
open meeting: 121212 UpStage Festival ideas
An open meeting to discuss ideas for the 121212 UpStage Festival will be held on 18-29 January, online in UpStage. Anyone who would like to be involved in the planning and organising of the sixth annual festival of cyberformance in UpStage, is very welcome to […]
make-shift
The networked performance make-shift, which uses UpStage in conjunction with audio-visual streaming to connect people in two separate houses with an online audience, will be performed again on 10 December 2011 and 7 January 2012. For these shows, houses in New Zealand will be connected […]
11 shows, 11 nodes, 11 everything!
The last-minute addition of two more “real-life” access nodes has meant that the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival now appropriately features 11 shows and 11 nodes! One of the additional nodes is at Hacklab01 in Zagreb, while the other is, to be honest, not a “real life” […]