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“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.
Thanks again for the incredible effort by everyone involved in the festival to make it such a great event! Osprey Theiran hosted a node in Second Life [thanks to Salazaar Jack for the venue!] here’s a glimpse of how things went for her and the […]
The last-minute addition of two more “real-life” access nodes has meant that the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival now appropriately features 11 shows and 11 nodes! One of the additional nodes is at Hacklab01 in Zagreb, while the other is, to be honest, not a “real life” […]
Bishop Bishop, who delighted us last year with “A Little Online Communion” at the 101010 UpStage Festival, has used her weekly “vermon” (video sermon) to urge her followers to tune in the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival. Watch the video below and spread the good word!
The 11:11:11 UpStage Festival node at MAD Emergent Arts Centre in Eindhoven (Netherlands) will run concurrently with a Hackathon. The Hackathon is a day of live programming, hacking, circuit bending, app dev, data visualisation, kinect performances as well as Upstage screenings, offering the opportunity for […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
