For two weeks in March 2014, I was artist-in-residence at the University of Creative Arts, Farnham (UK) at the invitiation of Yuwei Lin, course leader for Media and Communications. I had never been to Farnham before. It is an historic town in south England, situated […]
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Remembering Vivian Kendall / Osprey Therian
In December last year, while we were preoccupied with preparations for the UpStage 10th Birthday, we learned the sad news that Vivian Kendall, the “real-life typist” of Second Life avatar Osprey Therian, had passed away. The UpStage community came to know Osprey Therian during 2011, […]
Birthday Planning Meeting Report
The UpStage planning meeting took place during Thursday 9th and Friday 10th January 2014 at the open source community gallery 19 Tory Street. It was attended by Vicki Smith, Helen Varley Jamieson, Anne Philpott, Vanessa Henderson, Nikos Phillips, and Dan Untitled in Wellington, with online […]
A great birthday was had by all!
The 10th birthday of UpStage was celebrated on 9-10 January 2014 with events in Wellington (NZ), Munich (Germany) and of course online. Performances, presentations, a planning meeting and the launch of UpStage v3 were on the programme. In Wellington, we based ourselves in the open […]
The Birthday Begins!!
The 10th birthday of UpStage is kicking off right now, with the first part of a planning meeting at 19 Tory St., Wellington, and online. Join the IRC here and the Piratepad here. Let the birthday begin! Break digits everyone!
Birthday card for UpStage
Thanks very much for the birthday card from Katarina Djordjević Urosević! Click to play:
10th Birthday Programme Announced
The 10th birthday of UpStage will be celebrated on 9-10 January 2014 with three performances, a symposium on remote collaboration, a planning meeting and the launch of UpStage v3. See the full programme here. UpStage v3 The third version of the UpStage software will be […]
Reading and writing in the digital age
In May of this year, a performance called Testing the Text took place on UpStage, as part of a larger project Making books with things, making things with books, led by Xelís de Toros and Ed Briggs with support from the English Arts Council. As […]
beta v3 is live!
Great news folks – the beta version of UpStage v3 is up and running on the UpStage development server!!! Big thanks to Paul Rohrlach and Nitkalya Wiriyanuparb for their late-night work on the server, and Martin Eisenbarth for providing support. Thanks also to those who […]
Version 3 on track …
The current AUT student developer team are on track with UpStage version 3 – the beta version is due at the end of October and v3 itself will be launched as part of the 10th birthday celebrations, on 9 January 2013. Version 3 will bring […]