The next performance of “make-shift“, a networked performance that uses UpStage in conjunction with live streaming, will take place on Sunday 27th November. The performance is part of MagFest Torino (Italy), where Helen Varley Jamieson will be in an apartment with a audience of festival […]
UpStage: An Online Tool for Real-Time Storytelling Article
As a way to get up to speed with the kind of thing that you might see in the up-coming 11:11:11 festival here’s an article published in Creative Technologies Journal : colab.org.nz
11:11:11: Performing Text in Cyberspace
The cyberformance platform UpStage and its annual festival offers artists many audio-visual possibilities for the presentation of live, online performance – and in many cases the presence of text is still at the forefront of the work. One such performance, featured in the 11:11:11 UpStage […]
Beta version of UpStage 2.4.1 released
As AUT students Heath Behrens and Vibhu Patel prepare for their final exams after a year working on the UpStage project, they have uploaded to SourceForge the beta version of UpStage 2.4.1 – congratulations and thank you! The new code will be implemented on the […]
meanwhile in cyberspace …
Here in UpStage-land we are all very focussed on preparations for the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival, now only two weeks away. The artists are putting the final touches on their avatars, the recorders are making a schedule, everyone is spreading the word … Meanwhile in cyberspace, […]
Also live on 11/11/11 – Exchange Radical Moments
The 11:11:11 UpStage Festival is not the only transnational live art event taking place on Friday 11 November: 11 European cities are taking part in Exchange Radical Moments, a festival of “moments of encounter and confrontation in the heart of everyday life”. More than 60 […]
make-shift
The next performance of make-shift will be on Saturday 15 October 2011, at 8.30pm Serbian time (find your local time here), taking place between an apartment in Novi Sad, Serbia, a house in Exeter, UK and online. To join the performance online, go to https://www.make-shift.net […]
The World of Free and Open Source Art
UpStage is one of seven artists’ projects featured in Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art. This online resource was commissioned by the Arts Council England and can also be found here on the ACE web site. Collaboration and Freedom […]
The Net & the Butterfly – 26th Sept in Vienna
The Net & the Butterfly is an allegorical cyberformance about the challenges of documenting live online performance, created and presented in UpStage by Francesco Buonaiuto, Helen Varley Jamieson and Vicki Smith. Constructed from the digital traces of past cyberformances, it is simultaneously a performative presentation […]
11:11:11 Schedule Announcement
The schedule of performances for the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival will be announced at an online event on 11 October 2011 – at 11pm European time, which will be 10am on the 12th if you’re in New Zealand. If you’re somewhere else, find your local time […]