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 […]
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 […]
Résidency – 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The next performance of “make-shift“, a networked performance that uses UpStage in conjunction with live streaming, will take place on Sunday 27th November. The performance is part of MagFest Torino (Italy), where Helen Varley Jamieson will be in an apartment with a audience of festival […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The next performance of make-shift takes place on Tuesday 20th September at 7.30pm UK time, 9.30pm Turkey time, and online (find your local time here). Helen will be performing from an apartment in Istanbul, and Paula from a house in Exeter. To join the performance […]
