Something else besides the 080808 UpStage Festival is happening on 080808 (& I’m not talking about the Olympics!). It’s 080808 Digital Color: Something from Something or Nothing and online participants can set a bit to 0 or 1 in order to “produce a conversation online […]
ActiveLayers have received Grand Uncle’s latest broadcast – this time he has been taking calls from Peter Smith in New Zealand and Lizzy in England. He is also showcasing some original music by Brynne. Follow the link to have a listen: https://www.activelayers.net/~activela/callinghome/uncle.html We believe Grand […]
Stories of identity and histories that connect countries, cultures and centuries are among the performances selected for the 080808 UpStage Festival, which takes place on 8 August 2008. The festival features 14 live online performances by artists in 14 time zones, and will be accessible […]
The Norsk Telemuseum in Oslo will be one of the RL (‘real life’) access nodes for the 080808 UpStage Festival. From 10.30 to 6pm on Friday 8 August, people in Oslo will be able to participate in 080808 at the Telemuseum. The festival shows will […]
Last year, UpStage received special mention in the the Creativity category of the New Zealand Open Source Awards. This category didn’t exist until we asked the organisers why there wasn’t a category for the arts. UpStage met the criteria for both the education category and […]
The 080808 curatorial team are excited to share with you the line up for the 080808 festival. In what is becoming a tradition for UpStage festivals the range of offerings sees shows from those produced by fledgling cyberformers [our youngest performer is 6!] through to […]
The UpStage User Manual (2.2MB PDF) has now been updated to include the new features and inhancements introduced with V2.01. These include the on-stage audio tools and improvements to media management in the workshop area.
The call for proposals for the 080808 UpStage Festival closes today, Friday 16 May. More information here. We look forward to receiving your proposals!
**STOP PRESS** June 2008 – this problem is now solved : ) We have just discovered an issue with the latest Flash player plug-in, which is preventing users from accessing stages. It is something to do with policy file changes in the plug-in, and we […]
Cherry Truluck, Suzon Fuks, James Cunningham and Liz Bryce – now operating as activelayers will be presenting their new project, “Calling Home“, as part of the Mediatised Sites festival in Newcastle, UK. Four people, four geographies, one site. Meet Heather, Esme, Michael J Finch and […]
