Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh) are now using UpStage in their undergraduate Performing Arts teaching.
The final performance in the Mobilise/Demoblise series is also part of Mur.at's 25th anniversary celebrations.
As part of the Mobilise/Demobilise project we have produced three tutorial videos to show new users how to use UpStage’s on-stage player tools for the creation and presentation of their own cyberformances. The tutorials come with German, Swedish and English subtitles. You can watch them […]
On Friday 7th June, Petra Schmidt from CCT and Helen Varley Jamieson from UpStage presented the Mobilise/Demobilise project and rebuilt UpStage platform at the Eclectic Tech Carnival (/ETC) in Berlin. The /ETC is a gathering of feminist developers and artists who come together to share skills, […]
Vicki and Helen will present UpStage at the TIP2013 conference on 15 January in Hawaii (remotely, unfortunately!). Join the presentation online here: https://upstage.org.nz:8084/stages/tip2013 TIP2013, hosted by the University of Hawaii, is a joint conference between APAN (Asia-Pacific Advanced Network) and the ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs meeting […]
The 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance has now ended & was a great success! during the first week, “Walking Backwards into the Future” featured 14 cyberformances from past UpStage festivals. it was a real delight to see how relevant and fresh these shows still are […]
Penn State Art Education faculty members, Karen Keifer-Boyd and Wanda Knight, along with Penn State Art Education alumni, Christine Liao, Ryan Patton, Bob Sweeny, and Mary Elizabeth Meier, and colleagues Aaron Knochel and Ryan Shin, have collaborated over the past six months to create a […]
The 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance is one of four exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Activity (Wellington, New Zealand) during December. MoMA will be projecting the festival performances from 8pm-12pm NZ time on Wednesday 12 December, from its window facing Glover Park in central […]
“Avatars, open source and meeting in cyberspace may be mainstream today but was a bit more niche when the online performance environment UpStage was created a decade ago. As the annual festival of cyberformance reaches it’s final same-number-date 12-12-12, Upstage Festival co-curator and artist Vicki […]
Proverbs from many cultures express the concept of “walking backwards into the future” – the idea of learning from those who have gone before us as we forge new paths. As a live performance artform, cyberformance is fleeting, ephemeral and often leaves little trace for […]
Opening, exhibition and program Nerdlab: Alternate Realities; from Augmented and Virtual Reality to Fantasy and Science Fiction Opening: 7 December 20:00 – TAC – Vonderweg 1 Eindhoven Exhibition: With: Bram Snijders; Arne Hendriks; Eva van Asseldonk; Fremithi; Floris Kaaijk; Jakob de Jonge; Jan van Nuenen; […]
It’s the day before the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance kicks off! A whole week of performances – revisiting 14 wonderful shows from the last 5 years of UpStage festivals in “Walking Backwards into the Future“, and introducing a much broader programme than ever before […]
Martin Eisenbarth, one of our wonderful volunteer developers and creator of the new DownStage engine in development, has written an article about how to install UpStage on a web server: It seems like being kind of difficult to get the UpStage server application up and […]
Thirteen locations around the world from Wellington to Buenos Aires will be hubs for a unique international performance event, the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance, taking place from 5-12 December. The festival features more than 100 artists from around the world presenting online performances in […]
