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, […]
UpStage 2 was officially launched on 28 June 2007, with an event at the NZ Film Archive, Wellington, NZ. This event also opened an exhibition that will run until 15 July, and incorporate the 070707 festival of performances in UpStage. Photos from the launch.
Helen is leading a walk-through for two people – if anyone else is interested to join then please email helen at upstage.org.nz BEFORE the event. It will be at 7pm Brisbane time, which is 10am in Europe.
A festival of live online performances on 070707 is being organised to celebrate the launch of UpStage 2. You are warmly invited to create your own original cyberformance and perform it to a global audience, using UpStage – www.upstage.org.nz. The UpStage team can help you […]
The alpha version of UpStage 2 is now available to download from SourceForge. It’s also live on the UpStage server, so if you’ve been participating in open sessions and performances before now you will notice some changes. Most of the bugs from UpStage 1 have […]
Vicki and Helen were in Dunedin during the Fringe Festival, teaching an UpStage workshop on Wednesday 4 October and with Avatar Body Collision giving a work-in-progress showing of their new show, Familiar Features, using UpStage.
The latest ADA Swaray, held on 10th September, was an opportunity for NZ artists who had attended the recent ISEA festival to report on their experiences and have a virtual get-together. It was also the first showing of the work done on the software by […]
An UpStage workshop was taught at the 2006 Eclectic Tech Carnival (/etc) by Helen, in New Zealand. This photo, taken by Ursa Merc, is from the workshop and shows the projected UpStage screen in the background while two participants upload an image.
UpStage has received funding through the NZ Government’s Digital Strategy’s Community Partnership Fund. The grant will subsidise “phase 2” development of the software and community workshops, enabling communities to create their own content for the online medium. Read the full media release (PDF, 64KB).
Vicki Smith and Helen Varley Jamieson attended SCANZ, a two-week artists’ residency in New Plymouth, NZ, in the first two weeks of July. As well as working on Avatar Body Collision projects and collaborating with other artists, Vicki and Helen gave workshops and presentations in […]
A series of artists’ “swarays” are being held in UpStage, hosted by Aotearoa Digital Arts. The first took place at 9pm NZ time on Sunday 7 May, the second on June 11 and the third was held during SCANZ on Sunday 9 July and featured […]
