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, […]
The next performance of make-shift takes place on Tuesday 20th September at 7.30pm UK time, 9.30pm Turkey time, and online (find your local time here). Helen will be performing from an apartment in Istanbul, and Paula from a house in Exeter. To join the performance […]
The real life access nodes for the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival were announced at a live online event this Sunday, 11 September in the 11:11:11 Foyer. If you’re in Europe it will be 10am – perfect for sitting up in bed with laptop & coffee! If […]
The next UpStage walk-through will take place on Wednesday 7 September 2011, at 7am Aotearoa/NZ or Tuesday 6th if you’re in the Northern hemisphere. click here to find to your local time. This will be a workshop opportunity for the 11:11:11 artists to hone their […]
make-shift will be performed on Saturday 20th August at 10am UK time, as part of Legacy & Challenge, the 25th anniversary festival of The Magdalena Project. Online audiences join the performance via a purpose-built interface that combines UpStage with audio-visual streaming. The performance starts at […]
The next open walk-through will take place on Wednesday 3 August 2011, at 10am European time or 8pm if you’re in New Zealand. If you’re somewhere else, click here to convert to your local time. The walk-through is for newcomers to learn the basic operations […]
Over the last couple years, a group of us in Vancouver have been experimenting with Upstage avatars to see what we could discover about the limits of the technical flexibility of this platform. Suffice it to say, there’s a lot more you can do with […]
Although UpStage is a live performance platform, there are times when for one reason or another you may want to include a segment of pre-recorded video in your performance. This is possible to do by embedding your video in a Flash file; however there are […]
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 […]
If you’re finding it hard waiting until November for the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival, you might be interested in checking out the Odyssey Performance Art Festival, taking place from 7-12 July in Second Life. The festival opens with an avatar parade and open stage, and the […]
The next walk-through will focus on using web cams in UpStage: how to configure your web cam FTP application, create your web cam avatar, and exploring some of the ways of using web cams within an UpStage performance. It will be on Wednesday 6 July […]
