Four final-year computer science students at Auckland University of Technology have chosen UpStage as their major group project for the year. They will work on improvements and enhancements to the software, which will be greatly appreciated by the UpStage project team and everyone who is […]
February 11-19: UpStage Course at CWC
Helen taught an UpStage course at the Computing Women’s Congress at Waikato University. The participants prepared a live performance, “Indigenous Maniacs“, which was performed on Thursday 16 February at 12.45 pm NZ time and repeated at the March open walk-through. Watch a recording of the […]
LCA 2006 Digital Arts Miniconf
January 24 2006: Vicki and Helen presented UpStage remotely, with Douglas on-site in Dunedin to answer all the tricky technical questions. This event was attached to linux.conf.au 2006
2005 Summary
UpStage was presented at the ADA symposium, _Emerge_, in Dunedin NZ on 26 November. The family JeanRichard, from Switzerland, created a performance in UpStage which they presented live on 29 October, 10am western Europe time. The performance was called Life[2] and more information is available […]
2004 Summary
In December 2004, UpStage entered into a new server hosting partnership with Wellington internet provider CityLink. Read the full media release (Word document). Regular open sessions began in October, to give people the opportunity for a hands-on introduction to UpStage. Vicki Smith gave a presentation […]
WorldX
World X was a virtual exchange project using UpStage, between a group of young people from Eltham Hill Secondary School in London, England, and from Westland High School, Hokitika, Aotearoa/New Zealand. It took place in the first half of 2004.
9 January 2004: Launch of Version 1
UpStage Version 1 was launched on 9 January 2004, at 6pm NZ time, at MediaLab South Pacific in Wellington, New Zealand and also online in UpStage. The online audience members were located in Auckland, New York, and somewhere else we haven’t identified yet, and Avatar […]
2003: Development and Presentations
The initial development of UpStage received funding from the Smash Palace Collaboration Fund, a joint fund established by Creative New Zealand and the NZ Ministry of Research, Science and Technology to encourage collaborations between artists and scientists. MediaLab South Pacific was a project partner in […]