121212 - A Banquet of Cyberformance

Bigger, longer and tastier than ever – at the sixth annual UpStage Festival we will savour old favourites and spice things up with new platforms and technologies.

The 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance features 36 live performances created and presented in a variety of online platforms. UpStage, the Tap, Second Life, Visitors Studio, Skype and purpose-built interfaces provide the sites for these innovative shows created specifically for real-time interaction with online audiences.

There are two sections to the festival:
Walking Backwards into the Future - (http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=3430)
A retrospective of 19 remounted cyberformances celebrating the large and diverse body of work that has been generated through the past five UpStage festivals; 5-11 December 2012.

Testing 1 2, 1 2, 1 2 (http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=3447)
Seventeen new works that experiment with real-time performance in online environments; Wednesday 12 December 2012 (with a bit on the 11th or 13th, depending on where you are in the world).

The 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance is organised by Festival Architects Vicki Smith and Helen Varley Jamieson, with a team of dedicated volunteers and the talented artists. It is the sixth annual festival of cyberformance - live online interactive events created and presented for online audiences.

UpStage - a web-based venue for live online performance