An improvised cyberformance on the topic of networked bodies, Digital Handshake, was performed at 6.30pm UK time on Saturday 8 November 2014, as part of the event Networked Bodies – Digital Performance Weekender (7-9 November). The performance took place simultaneously at Watermans A handshake is a […]
Developer update 02-10-2014
Hi developers and followers of UpStage! In the past few weeks, we made some progress on our research topics. Text to speech by Charlotte and James: They created a project for testing TextToSpeech features on Windows OS. The project works with basic voice options (Kevin […]
Developer Update 02-09-2014
Hello Developers and followers of UpStage! This is AUT UpStage Team blog update. In the last two weeks, we have come up with our detailed plan for the semester. We will research on possible technologies to replace some of the outdated technologies used in UpStage […]
Update and New Team
Hi developers and followers of UpStage! First of all,we apologize for not updating the blog post since October, but from this week, we will be updating developers blog post every fortnightly! We have two exciting news to announce. Firstly, as we have entered a new […]
TransHackFeminist Jam
What is TransHackFeminism? This has been a topic of discussion at the Eclectic Tech Carnival, happening now at Calafou, Spain, and is also the theme for an UpStage jam as part of the closing cabaret. The performance will be on SATURDAY EVENING (previously adverised as Sunday) […]
Add your touch to the new UpStage web site!
This site is getting a make-over, and you’re invited to add your touch: create a banner that says something about what UpStage is for you. The current site was created in 2007, at the time of the launch of UpStage v2 (thanks, Leena!). It’s served […]
“The Net and the Butterfly” article
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 […]
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 […]