The 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance is one of four exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Activity (Wellington, New Zealand) during December. MoMA will be projecting the festival performances from 8pm-12pm NZ time on Wednesday 12 December, from its window facing Glover Park in central […]
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121212 Festival architect Vicki Smith interviewed on TBI
“Avatars, open source and meeting in cyberspace may be mainstream today but was a bit more niche when the online performance environment UpStage was created a decade ago. As the annual festival of cyberformance reaches it’s final same-number-date 12-12-12, Upstage Festival co-curator and artist Vicki […]
121212: Walking Backwards into the Future
Proverbs from many cultures express the concept of “walking backwards into the future” – the idea of learning from those who have gone before us as we forge new paths. As a live performance artform, cyberformance is fleeting, ephemeral and often leaves little trace for […]
121212 UpStage festival at Nerdlab!
Opening, exhibition and program Nerdlab: Alternate Realities; from Augmented and Virtual Reality to Fantasy and Science Fiction Opening: 7 December 20:00 – TAC – Vonderweg 1 Eindhoven Exhibition: With: Bram Snijders; Arne Hendriks; Eva van Asseldonk; Fremithi; Floris Kaaijk; Jakob de Jonge; Jan van Nuenen; […]
Festival eve …
It’s the day before the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance kicks off! A whole week of performances – revisiting 14 wonderful shows from the last 5 years of UpStage festivals in “Walking Backwards into the Future“, and introducing a much broader programme than ever before […]
Installing UpStage from scratch
Martin Eisenbarth, one of our wonderful volunteer developers and creator of the new DownStage engine in development, has written an article about how to install UpStage on a web server: It seems like being kind of difficult to get the UpStage server application up and […]
Global Locations for 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance
Thirteen locations around the world from Wellington to Buenos Aires will be hubs for a unique international performance event, the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance, taking place from 5-12 December. The festival features more than 100 artists from around the world presenting online performances in […]
121212 Schedule Announced!
The schedule of performances during the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance has now been announced! This year the festival is in two parts, so there are two separate schedules: “Walking backwards into the future”, 5-11 December: a programme of 17 remounted cyberformances from the past […]
Free Online Performance Festival Seeks Donations
More than 100 performance artists from around the world come together in December for the 121212 Upstage Festival of Cyberformance – a festival of innovative live performance all created and performed online. Attending the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance is completely free for anyone – […]
A wealth of online creativity!
More than 100 performance artists from around the world come together in December for the 121212 Upstage Festival of Cyberformance – a festival of innovative live performance all created and performed online. Attending the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance is completely free for anyone – […]