Constructed from the digital traces of past cyberformances, The Net and the Butterfly is an allegorical cyberformance about the challenges of documenting live online performance, transforming conventional notions of the separation of ‘live performance’ and ‘performance documentation’. It was created by Francesco Buonaiuto, Helen Varley […]
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Break the Fast Open Walkthrough: 30/31 July
Join us on the 30th or 31st of July (depending on your locale). Europeans your evening (10pm Wednesday 30th), Antipodeans come along 8am Thursday 31st. If you’re somewhere else, click here to find your local time. The open walkthrough is an opportunity for anyone to […]
UpStage Open Walkthrough May
Kia ora and welcome to the next open walkthrough in UpStage, which will take place on Wednesday 14 May 8am Aotearoa/NZ (That’s 9pm for UK and 10pm CET Tuesday 13 May) – check your time https://timeanddate.com/s/2pax. The open walkthrough is an opportunity for any interested people to […]
UCA Residency and Presentation
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 […]
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 […]