In 2007, the 070707 UpStage Festival was held to mark the release of UpStage V2. It took place on 7 July, ran for 10 hours and featured 13 performances by artists from New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Finland, Serbia, the USA and Canada. All of the shows could be watched online, and they were screened at the NZ Film Archive in Wellington, New Zealand. The festival had not even finished when people started talking about “next year …”
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nd so, the UpStage festival became an annual event for six years, climaxing with the massive 121212 Festival of Cyberformance. You can find information and documentation of the festivals from the links below and showreels here.
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Some festival statistics
For those of you who like to know the numbers, here are some (scroll down for 11:11:11 and 121212):
| 070707 | 080808 | 090909 | 101010 | |
| shows: | 13 | 13 | 14 | 17 |
| artists: | 25+ | 34+ | 42+ | 53+ |
| countries: | Australia Belgium Canada Finland Germany Greece Netherlands NZ Serbia UK USA |
Australia Belgium Canada France Germany Korea Lebanon NZ Serbia Turkey UK USA |
Australia Austria Belgium Canada France Germany Italy Netherlands NZ Norway Poland Serbia UK USA |
Australia Austria Belgium Canada France Germany Korea NZ Serbia Sweden Tonga UK USA |
| nodes: | Wellington | Los Angeles Munich Oslo Wellington |
Calgary Eindhoven Graz Istanbul Munich Nantes Oslo Pancevo (Serbia) Surrey (Canada) Wellington |
Auckland Belgrade Calgary Graz Eindhoven Ho Chi Min City Ljubljana Milwaukee Nantes New York Oslo Pancevo Wellington |
| 11:11:11 | 121212 | 10th Birthday | |
| shows: | 11 | 32 | 6 |
| artists: | 30+ | 100+ | 11 |
| countries: | Canada Germany Italy Netherlands New Zealand Scotland Serbia UK |
Argentina Australia Brasil Canada Chile Finland France Germany Greece Japan Netherlands New Zealand Portugal Serbia Sweden UK USA |
France Germany Greece Italy Netherlands New Zealand Portugal UK |
| nodes: | Coimbra Eindhoven Greymouth Hari Hari Munich New Pymouth Oslo Rotterdam Second Life Zagreb |
Amherst Buenos Aires Christchurch Coimbra Eindhoven Exeter Holstebro Linz Montpellier Nantes Oslo Pancevo Wellington |
Eindhoven Munich Wellington |
