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!
January 24 2006: Vicki and Helen presented UpStage remotely, with Douglas on-site in Dunedin to answer all the tricky technical questions. This event was attached to linux.conf.au 2006
UpStage was presented at the ADA symposium, _Emerge_, in Dunedin NZ on 26 November. The family JeanRichard, from Switzerland, created a performance in UpStage which they presented live on 29 October, 10am western Europe time. The performance was called Life[2] and more information is available […]
In December 2004, UpStage entered into a new server hosting partnership with Wellington internet provider CityLink. Read the full media release (Word document). Regular open sessions began in October, to give people the opportunity for a hands-on introduction to UpStage. Vicki Smith gave a presentation […]
World X was a virtual exchange project using UpStage, between a group of young people from Eltham Hill Secondary School in London, England, and from Westland High School, Hokitika, Aotearoa/New Zealand. It took place in the first half of 2004.
UpStage Version 1 was launched on 9 January 2004, at 6pm NZ time, at MediaLab South Pacific in Wellington, New Zealand and also online in UpStage. The online audience members were located in Auckland, New York, and somewhere else we haven’t identified yet, and Avatar […]
The initial development of UpStage received funding from the Smash Palace Collaboration Fund, a joint fund established by Creative New Zealand and the NZ Ministry of Research, Science and Technology to encourage collaborations between artists and scientists. MediaLab South Pacific was a project partner in […]
