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 performance of make-shift will be on Saturday 15 October 2011, at 8.30pm Serbian time (find your local time here), taking place between an apartment in Novi Sad, Serbia, a house in Exeter, UK and online. To join the performance online, go to https://www.make-shift.net […]
UpStage is one of seven artists’ projects featured in Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art. This online resource was commissioned by the Arts Council England and can also be found here on the ACE web site. Collaboration and Freedom […]
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 […]
The schedule of performances for the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival will be announced at an online event on 11 October 2011 – at 11pm European time, which will be 10am on the 12th if you’re in New Zealand. If you’re somewhere else, find your local time […]
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 […]
