UpStage is part of the trans-European collaborative networked performance project, We have a situation!, which has received funding from the European Cultural Foundation. We have a situation! is a series of live, trans-border, online-offline participatory performances addressing current cross-cultural European issues. “There is no use […]
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 aims to create a space for artists, researchers and interested participants to discuss the field […]
One of the performances selected for the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformances is part of a larger project which has included other live performances and a series of comic books. “Learning to Fall” artist Lynne Heller has announced the launch of the sixth and final comic book in […]
Great news – the upload bug which has plagued our server since the operating system upgrade in February has finally been solved; thanks to Martin Eisenbarth for working out the precise tweaking needed in the config file. Now that we are once more able to […]
One of the performances from 101010, S/Zports: A Training for the Possible Wor(l)ds was restaged on 10 and 17 August 2012 as part of an exhibition of extended media, “Zagrebi Dublje (Scratch Deeper)” at the ULUS Gallery in Belgrade. Four of the original artists – Miljana Peric, Julijana Protic, […]
Dear UpStagers, Cyberformers and Artists, Volunteers are needed to compose the documentation team for the 12:12:12 UpStage Festival. As every year, 121212 UpStage Festival will be documented for archival and documentation purposes. Help us fight against the forgetfulness of the net and live performance, and […]
UpStage is one of four case studies in the Digital Manual research project at Edinburgh University. At the beginning of July, Helen attended a two-day focus group and workshop session along with representatives from the other case studies and the wider networking group; Vicki would […]
The 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance features 36 live performances created and presented in a variety of online platforms. UpStage, the Tap, Second Life, Visitors Studio, Skype and purpose-built interfaces are the sites for these innovative shows created specifically for the real-time interaction with online […]
On Thursday 24 May, UpStage was featured at the Electropixel festival in Nantes, France. During the afternoon, Helen held a workshop to introduce participants to the UpStage platform and the idea of live performance on the internet. In the evening at an “UpStage Apéro”, two […]
A couple of weeks ago Martin Eisenbarth and Helen Varley Jamieson were in Vienna for the Libre Graphics Meeting, to present UpStage and the new DownStage project under the title “Re-Imagining UpStage.” Click here to view a recording of the presentation. The LGM is an […]
