The “Research” page on the UpStage web site is a gathering of links to articles, books, theses and other relevant information – about UpStage or related in some way. Please let us know if you have written or found material that could be linked to […]
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The Downstage blog
Martin Eisenbarth, who is developing DownStage as a completely re-imagined engine for cyberformance, has launched a blog where he will document and discuss the implementation of the new platform. Over the next month he will be working at APO33 in Nantes, France on the implementation […]
UpStage residency and workshop at APO33
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 […]
open meeting: 121212 UpStage Festival ideas
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 […]
Avatars enjoying the 11:11:11 Festival
Thanks again for the incredible effort by everyone involved in the festival to make it such a great event! Osprey Theiran hosted a node in Second Life [thanks to Salazaar Jack for the venue!] here’s a glimpse of how things went for her and the […]
11 shows, 11 nodes, 11 everything!
The last-minute addition of two more “real-life” access nodes has meant that the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival now appropriately features 11 shows and 11 nodes! One of the additional nodes is at Hacklab01 in Zagreb, while the other is, to be honest, not a “real life” […]
A 11:11:11 plug from the good Bishop …
Bishop Bishop, who delighted us last year with “A Little Online Communion” at the 101010 UpStage Festival, has used her weekly “vermon” (video sermon) to urge her followers to tune in the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival. Watch the video below and spread the good word!
11:11:11 node combined with Hackathon
The 11:11:11 UpStage Festival node at MAD Emergent Arts Centre in Eindhoven (Netherlands) will run concurrently with a Hackathon. The Hackathon is a day of live programming, hacking, circuit bending, app dev, data visualisation, kinect performances as well as Upstage screenings, offering the opportunity for […]
UpStage: An Online Tool for Real-Time Storytelling Article
As a way to get up to speed with the kind of thing that you might see in the up-coming 11:11:11 festival here’s an article published in Creative Technologies Journal : colab.org.nz
11:11:11: Performing Text in Cyberspace
The cyberformance platform UpStage and its annual festival offers artists many audio-visual possibilities for the presentation of live, online performance – and in many cases the presence of text is still at the forefront of the work. One such performance, featured in the 11:11:11 UpStage […]