UpStage and Mobliise/Demobilise will be presented at the Audioblast Festival, Nantes, at the end of February.
During December 2023 and January 2024, members of Mur.at began to learn how to use their instance of UpStage, which is live at https://upstage.mur.at/. Helen gave a presentation, introducing UpStage and its tools – watch the video below. This was followed in January by a […]
Twenty years ago today, 9 January 2003, UpStage was officially launched in Wellington, Aotearoa/NZ, and online. Today we celebrate this auspicious artistic anniversary with parties in UpStage!
On 9 January 2024 we celebrate 20 years of UpStage!
A festival of live online performances on 070707 is being organised to celebrate the launch of UpStage 2. You are warmly invited to create your own original cyberformance and perform it to a global audience, using UpStage – www.upstage.org.nz. The UpStage team can help you […]
The alpha version of UpStage 2 is now available to download from SourceForge. It’s also live on the UpStage server, so if you’ve been participating in open sessions and performances before now you will notice some changes. Most of the bugs from UpStage 1 have […]
Vicki and Helen were in Dunedin during the Fringe Festival, teaching an UpStage workshop on Wednesday 4 October and with Avatar Body Collision giving a work-in-progress showing of their new show, Familiar Features, using UpStage.
The latest ADA Swaray, held on 10th September, was an opportunity for NZ artists who had attended the recent ISEA festival to report on their experiences and have a virtual get-together. It was also the first showing of the work done on the software by […]
An UpStage workshop was taught at the 2006 Eclectic Tech Carnival (/etc) by Helen, in New Zealand. This photo, taken by Ursa Merc, is from the workshop and shows the projected UpStage screen in the background while two participants upload an image.
UpStage has received funding through the NZ Government’s Digital Strategy’s Community Partnership Fund. The grant will subsidise “phase 2” development of the software and community workshops, enabling communities to create their own content for the online medium. Read the full media release (PDF, 64KB).
Vicki Smith and Helen Varley Jamieson attended SCANZ, a two-week artists’ residency in New Plymouth, NZ, in the first two weeks of July. As well as working on Avatar Body Collision projects and collaborating with other artists, Vicki and Helen gave workshops and presentations in […]
A series of artists’ “swarays” are being held in UpStage, hosted by Aotearoa Digital Arts. The first took place at 9pm NZ time on Sunday 7 May, the second on June 11 and the third was held during SCANZ on Sunday 9 July and featured […]
Four final-year computer science students at Auckland University of Technology have chosen UpStage as their major group project for the year. They will work on improvements and enhancements to the software, which will be greatly appreciated by the UpStage project team and everyone who is […]
Helen taught an UpStage course at the Computing Women’s Congress at Waikato University. The participants prepared a live performance, “Indigenous Maniacs“, which was performed on Thursday 16 February at 12.45 pm NZ time and repeated at the March open walk-through. Watch a recording of the […]
