For the six years of its life so far, UpStage has run from the same server. During this time, we’ve held three international festivals, countless online walk-throughs and workshops, and made numerous other presentations and performances – not to mention all the development work that […]
The fourth UpStage festival of cyberformance (live online performance) will be held on 101010 (10 October 2010). The call is now open for performance proposals. The 101010 Upstage Festival aims to create a participatory space for collaboration, creation, and for the presentation of current cyberformance. […]
The showreel of excerpts from the 090909 UpStage Festival is now online. Thanks again to all the artists who created and performed the fabulous shows, to the organisers of the nodes, and especially to the volunteer documenters who recorded the shows and dan for the […]
A special session on how to use web cams in UpStage will be held on Tuesday 15 December at 9pm Western European time (find your local time here). If you are interested in attending this session, please email info@upstage.org.nz first, as you will need to […]
The next open walk-through in UpStage will take place at 8pm UK time on Monday 26 October, which is 9am on Tuesday 27 October in New Zealand. Find your local time here. The open walk-through is an opportunity to learn about UpStage and how it […]
Following the 090909 UpStage Festival, we are gathering documentation and gradually adding it to the 090909 page. We are keen to receive links to reviews of the performances, and photos from the nodes. Screengrab from User Profile by Meliors Simms
“Schneewittchen & Maschinendivas” is a review of the 090909 UpStage Festival, by Fiona Sara Schmidt (in German), published in an.schläge magazine.
Yes it has now finished – 20 hours of diverse & engaging experimental cyberformance in the UpStage platform. Thank you to Creative New Zealand for their financial support of the festival; to City Link for the server hosting; and to AUT for the ongoing development […]
090909 UpStage festival – live now – click to enter! the first set of shows is over & has run without a hitch (or at least, without a visible hitch!). there was a great variety of shows, & all were consistently engaging & interesting. first […]
The team that created “Lines” have made a stage where you can play with the madala – click here – draw and then type “1” to advance the generator; refresh the page (F5) to reset the drawing. Meanwhile, the shows continue!
