What is TransHackFeminism? This has been a topic of discussion at the Eclectic Tech Carnival, happening now at Calafou, Spain, and is also the theme for an UpStage jam as part of the closing cabaret. The performance will be on SATURDAY EVENING (previously adverised as Sunday) […]
Year: 2014
Add your touch to the new UpStage web site!
This site is getting a make-over, and you’re invited to add your touch: create a banner that says something about what UpStage is for you. The current site was created in 2007, at the time of the launch of UpStage v2 (thanks, Leena!). It’s served […]
“The Net and the Butterfly” article
Constructed from the digital traces of past cyberformances, The Net and the Butterfly is an allegorical cyberformance about the challenges of documenting live online performance, transforming conventional notions of the separation of ‘live performance’ and ‘performance documentation’. It was created by Francesco Buonaiuto, Helen Varley […]
Break the Fast Open Walkthrough: 30/31 July
Join us on the 30th or 31st of July (depending on your locale). Europeans your evening (10pm Wednesday 30th), Antipodeans come along 8am Thursday 31st. If you’re somewhere else, click here to find your local time. The open walkthrough is an opportunity for anyone to […]
UpStage Open Walkthrough May
Kia ora and welcome to the next open walkthrough in UpStage, which will take place on Wednesday 14 May 8am Aotearoa/NZ (That’s 9pm for UK and 10pm CET Tuesday 13 May) – check your time https://timeanddate.com/s/2pax. The open walkthrough is an opportunity for any interested people to […]
UCA Residency and Presentation
For two weeks in March 2014, I was artist-in-residence at the University of Creative Arts, Farnham (UK) at the invitiation of Yuwei Lin, course leader for Media and Communications. I had never been to Farnham before. It is an historic town in south England, situated […]
Balloon – 6pm UK time
The next performance of Balloon will be at 19.00 CET on Thursday 13 March, as part of the UCA cyberformance programme. The evening begins at 18.00 CET with an introduction, and performance by Helen Varley Jamieson and UCA workshop participants. There will be time for […]
Remembering Vivian Kendall / Osprey Therian
In December last year, while we were preoccupied with preparations for the UpStage 10th Birthday, we learned the sad news that Vivian Kendall, the “real-life typist” of Second Life avatar Osprey Therian, had passed away. The UpStage community came to know Osprey Therian during 2011, […]
Open Walkthrough with UCA students
There will be an open walkthrough on Thursday 6 March, from 9am-11am UK time. Find your local time here. This is open to the public, and is part of a residency at the University of the Creative Arts in Farnham, UK, where students of film […]
Birthday Planning Meeting Report
The UpStage planning meeting took place during Thursday 9th and Friday 10th January 2014 at the open source community gallery 19 Tory Street. It was attended by Vicki Smith, Helen Varley Jamieson, Anne Philpott, Vanessa Henderson, Nikos Phillips, and Dan Untitled in Wellington, with online […]