In September, Helen Varley Jamieson will have a second residency at the University of Creative Arts in Farnham. Last year, Helen spent two weeks at UCA at the invitation of lecturer Yuwei Lin; she gave presentations and workshops, and collaborated with Yuwei and some of […]
CyPosium — the book will be presented at Transmediale 2015, with a repeat of the launch performance. This cyberformance, delivered by some of the book’s contributors and CyPosium organisers, features reading of excerpts from the book along with improvised visuals including webcam imagery and live drawing. The presentation will […]
As we come to the end of 2014, the year that marked a decade of UpStage, we would like to thank everyone who has played a part in the activities this year and wish you all the best for the coming year. In January, we […]
Ethernet Orchestra – a distributed group of musicians who perform live via the internet – have released their first album, titled “Diaspora“. Ethernet Orchestra participated in the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance, and Roger Mills spoke about their practices and methodology during the CyPosium. Diaspora […]
CyPosium – the book was launched on 12 December with an event taking place in Munich and online. Book contributors and organisers of the CyPosium read excerpts from their various locations around the world. A recording of the performance is below. The event took place […]
Two years in the making, and CyPosium – the book is finally here! CyPosium – the book presents selected material from the CyPosium, a one-day online symposium organized in October 2012 to discuss cyberformance – live performance that uses internet technologies to connect remote participants. […]
An improvised cyberformance on the topic of networked bodies, Digital Handshake, was performed at 6.30pm UK time on Saturday 8 November 2014, as part of the event Networked Bodies – Digital Performance Weekender (7-9 November). The performance took place simultaneously at Watermans A handshake is a […]
What is TransHackFeminism? This has been a topic of discussion at the Eclectic Tech Carnival, happening now at Calafou, Spain, and is also the theme for an UpStage jam as part of the closing cabaret. The performance will be on SATURDAY EVENING (previously adverised as Sunday) […]
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 […]
