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 […]
If you’re finding it hard waiting until November for the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival, you might be interested in checking out the Odyssey Performance Art Festival, taking place from 7-12 July in Second Life. The festival opens with an avatar parade and open stage, and the […]
The next walk-through will focus on using web cams in UpStage: how to configure your web cam FTP application, create your web cam avatar, and exploring some of the ways of using web cams within an UpStage performance. It will be on Wednesday 6 July […]
Today I participated in a spontaneous online mini-sprint on the UpStage server: sitting at home in munich, I watched Paul’s computer screen on the other side of the world in Auckland, NZ; the green square that was his cursor flicked along lines of white text […]
Ben Unterman has been invited to do a brief introduction to some of the more complex avatars created for UpStage by the Virtual Theatre group. This will take the form of an open tour of avatars created for three different shows. The tour will begin […]
UpStage is a web-based platform for live, collaborative performance, presenting an annual international festival of cyerformance by artists from around the world. The platform is free and open source, and it’s free for you to attend the festival – online, wherever you are. UpStage is […]
Two presentations at the Live Performers Meeting (Rome, 19-22 May) will feature UpStage: on Friday 20th Paula Crutchlow (online from the UK) and Helen Varley Jamieson will give a presentation about their networked performance make-shift, which uses UpStage in conjunction with streaming audio & video […]
There will be two more open walk-through sessions in UpStage before the 11 April deadline for proposals for the 111111 UpStage Festival. These will be on: Wednesday 30th March, at 8pm NZ time (find your local time here) Sunday 3rd April, at 8pm European time […]
