UpStage – the online venue for live performances

“Schneewittchen & Maschinendivas” is a review of the 090909 UpStage Festival, by Fiona Sara Schmidt (in German), published in an.schläge magazine.

Yes it has now finished – 20 hours of diverse & engaging experimental cyberformance in the UpStage platform. Thank you to Creative New Zealand for their financial support of the festival; to City Link for the server hosting; and to AUT for the ongoing development […]

090909 UpStage festival – live now – click to enter! the first set of shows is over & has run without a hitch (or at least, without a visible hitch!). there was a great variety of shows, & all were consistently engaging & interesting. first […]

The team that created “Lines” have made a stage where you can play with the madala – click here – draw and then type “1” to advance the generator; refresh the page (F5) to reset the drawing. Meanwhile, the shows continue!

It’s 090909! and the links to the stages are now live here – check your local time and click on the link to enter the stage. Join us at any time in the 090909 Foyer – if you get lost, or want to chat. Break […]

090909 UpStage Festival Preview from UpStage on Vimeo. The schedule of performances for the 090909 UpStage Festival has now been announced – check it out here. All performances have a link to find your local time. download the full media release here (PDF) information about […]

The performers are all busy rehearsing their shows and any day now we will be publicising the schedule of performances. There are now 13 shows, with a couple of late additions – check the performances page for details – and the nodes are confirming their […]

Recently the public UpStage server was updated to version 2.1, and now at last the updated 2.1 User Manual is available; this release includes a number of small bug fixes and some new functionality. But the major development with this release is the creation of […]

Artists Tara Rebele (USA), Miljana Peric (Serbia) and Suzon Fuks (Australia) invite you to contribute to and participate in a new work selected for the 090909 UpStage Festival, a curated cyberformance event for live online audiences and proximal audiences at RL venues around the world […]

The cyberformance “Machine Divas” was presented on Thursday 23rd at 8pm European time (find your local time here). It was presented to a proximal audience at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in Vienna, and online. what does a machine diva look like? does she have a soul? are […]