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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
