More than 65,000 people - including artists, audiences, students and others - have encountered UpStage in the last four years.
“And Now … !” took place in UpStage on Saturday 8 March, celebrating international women’s day as well as the diversity and creativity of UpStage performances. The event began with the evening’s host, Helen Varley Jamieson, welcoming everyone and acknowledging the role of women in […]
"We need culture - like air to breathe" is the English translation of the title of an installation currently in the foyer of the Kunsthaus Graz (Austria).
Once again, UpStage will be presented at the annual Libre Graphics Meeting, this year taking place 28-31 May in Nuremburg, Germany.
The next open walk-through in UpStage will be held on Tuesday 6 March at 10am CET / 10pm NZ; find your local time here. Open walk-throughs are for anyone who is interested to learn about UpStage and the basic operation of the platform for creating […]
The next performance of make-shift takes place on Saturday 4 February, connecting homes in Brisbane, Australia and Kingsteignton, UK with online audiences around the world. The event happens at 11am UK time, which is 9pm in Brisbane; find your local time here then go to […]
the next make-shift event is today! saturday 28th january, starting in less than 2 hours … go to the make-shift site and click on the live link (top right-hand corner) to enter the interface.
The new multi-platform programme of the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance features performances that utilise a range of networked technology, from purpose-built cyberformance platforms such as UpStage, Visitors Studio, mosaika.tv and the Tap, to social environments such as Second Life; and are created by artists […]
An online symposium on 12 October 2012 will celebrate and discuss the field of cyberformance – live, online performance – that has evolved over the last two decades. The CyPosium will open with an introduction by Maria Chatzichristodoulou, who is a cultural practitioner and digital […]
The “Research” page on the UpStage web site is a gathering of links to articles, books, theses and other relevant information – about UpStage or related in some way. Please let us know if you have written or found material that could be linked to […]
Martin Eisenbarth, who is developing DownStage as a completely re-imagined engine for cyberformance, has launched a blog where he will document and discuss the implementation of the new platform. Over the next month he will be working at APO33 in Nantes, France on the implementation […]
Résidency – Research Apo33 : UPSTAGE : VIRTUAL STAGE & ONLINE COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE An exciting new collaboration between UpStage and APO33, an artists’ collective in Nantes (France), is about to begin. APO33 will host programmer Martin Eisenbarth for a month-long residency to implement his prototype […]
An open meeting to discuss ideas for the 121212 UpStage Festival will be held on 18-29 January, online in UpStage. Anyone who would like to be involved in the planning and organising of the sixth annual festival of cyberformance in UpStage, is very welcome to […]
The networked performance make-shift, which uses UpStage in conjunction with audio-visual streaming to connect people in two separate houses with an online audience, will be performed again on 10 December 2011 and 7 January 2012. For these shows, houses in New Zealand will be connected […]
