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.Â
Although UpStage is a live performance platform, there are times when for one reason or another you may want to include a segment of pre-recorded video in your performance. This is possible to do by embedding your video in a Flash file; however there are […]
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 […]
If you’re finding it hard waiting until November for the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival, you might be interested in checking out the Odyssey Performance Art Festival, taking place from 7-12 July in Second Life. The festival opens with an avatar parade and open stage, and the […]
The next walk-through will focus on using web cams in UpStage: how to configure your web cam FTP application, create your web cam avatar, and exploring some of the ways of using web cams within an UpStage performance. It will be on Wednesday 6 July […]
Today I participated in a spontaneous online mini-sprint on the UpStage server: sitting at home in munich, I watched Paul’s computer screen on the other side of the world in Auckland, NZ; the green square that was his cursor flicked along lines of white text […]
Ben Unterman has been invited to do a brief introduction to some of the more complex avatars created for UpStage by the Virtual Theatre group. This will take the form of an open tour of avatars created for three different shows. The tour will begin […]
This is an initial call-out to anyone who may be interested in hosting a “real-life access node” for the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival (11 November 2011). RL (real life) access nodes are held in conjunction with the UpStage festival to provide venues for proximal audiences around […]
UpStage is a web-based platform for live, collaborative performance, presenting an annual international festival of cyerformance by artists from around the world. The platform is free and open source, and it’s free for you to attend the festival – online, wherever you are. UpStage is […]
Next up in UpStage will be an open meeting on Wednesday 8 June at 8pm in Aotearoa/NZ 10am European, 9am UK time. 11:11:11 invited artists are encouraged to attend to discuss workshops and support for creating your shows those interested in hosting the festival are […]
Lots is happening right now in the world of UpStage: the 11:11:11 artists are busy getting started on making their shows, the AUT student team is working on bug-fixing & enhancements, Martin is getting into his research for a complete rebuild of UpStage, Vicki is […]
