An open meeting to discuss ideas for the 121212 UpStage Festival will be held on 18-29 January, online in UpStage. Anyone who would like to be involved in the planning and organising of the sixth annual festival of cyberformance in UpStage, is very welcome to […]
make-shift
The networked performance make-shift, which uses UpStage in conjunction with audio-visual streaming to connect people in two separate houses with an online audience, will be performed again on 10 December 2011 and 7 January 2012. For these shows, houses in New Zealand will be connected […]
11 shows, 11 nodes, 11 everything!
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” […]
A 11:11:11 plug from the good Bishop …
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!
11:11:11 node combined with Hackathon
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 […]
make-shift
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 […]
11:11:11: Performing Text in Cyberspace
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 […]
Beta version of UpStage 2.4.1 released
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 […]
meanwhile in cyberspace …
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, […]
Also live on 11/11/11 – Exchange Radical Moments
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 […]