UpStage is featured in the exhibition accompanying the 2016 Libre Graphics Meeting. The LGM is hosted this year by the University of Westminster, and the exhibition will be in the university’s London Gallery West, in the Harrow campus. The exhibition opens on 15 April as […]
The next open walkthrough takes place on Monday 7th September (or Tuesday 8th if you are in the front part of the world) and will focus on audio-visual streaming in UpStage. Participants will learn how to set up an audio-visual stream using the Flash Media […]
After a hiatus to clean up some gnarly server issues and disentangle a few bugs in the new V3, UpStage will once again open its doors to anyone who is interested in discovering how this real-time digital performance platform can be used to create innovative […]
Vicki and Helen will participate remotely in this workshop at the British HCI 2015 conference, presenting UpStage and contributing to the day’s discussions. The workshop “Designing Digital Creative Commons for the Performing Arts” aims to “bring together HCI designers, creative technologists, Performing Arts practitioners and theorists […]
Following on from the 2013 project We have a situation!, Helen Varley Jamieson will travel to Brasil in October to create a “situation” in Rio de Janeiro, on the topic of water pollution. It is part of Multicidade, an international festival of women in the performing arts. […]
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 […]
