The Stuttgart Filmwinter is a festival for expanded media, and for its 33rd edition in January 2020, the festival has the theme of “absence”. Helen Varley Jamieson has been invited to be on the jury for its Networked Culture prize and to give a talk about cyberformance at the festival. With the title “Cyberformance: making absence present”, she will speak about the networked conversation project “We have a Situation!” and demonstrate how the project uses UpStage to encourage civic engagement in post-democracy.