QMU presentation

Cyberformance as a tool for Social Engagement

Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh) are now using UpStage in their undergraduate Performing Arts teaching.

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Mobliise/Demobilise

Mobilising for 25 years of Mur.at

The final performance in the Mobilise/Demoblise series is also part of Mur.at's 25th anniversary celebrations.

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Video Tutorials

New Tutorial Videos

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 […]

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/ETC Presentation

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, […]

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UpStage at DIMEA

There will be an UpStage tutorial in Athens, Greece on 10 September at the 3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA 2008). The presentation will be given by Miljana Peric (on site) and Helen Varley Jamieson (remotely), from 11.15am to […]

080808 Reviewed

The 080808 UpStage Festival has been reviewed by Bree Hadley for Australian Stage Online: What was most engaging about the cyberformance experience was the sense of the performances forming in the very moment of the encounter, and the sense that spectators participated in this encounter. […]

080808 is over …

After 18 hours of cyberformance and some online partying at the end, the 080808 UpStage Festival has ended. All over the world, exhausted cyberformers and online audience members are collapsing into bed, no matter what time of day or night. Thirteen shows were performed – […]

Are you ready for 080808?

UpStage is vibrating with anticipation!!! The foyer has been cleaned and is ready for guests. The performers are busy doing their dress rehearsals and technical checks; the schedule has been finalised and links to the stages will be live from the programme page when 080808 […]

080808 – another event

Something else besides the 080808 UpStage Festival is happening on 080808 (& I’m not talking about the Olympics!). It’s 080808 Digital Color: Something from Something or Nothing and online participants can set a bit to 0 or 1 in order to “produce a conversation online […]