The 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance
Released 9 December 2012
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the 121212 UpStage Festival of
Cyberformance
Having enjoyed a week-long retrospective programme of remounted shows from the previous five UpStage festivals, the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance culminates on 12 December with Testing 1 2, 1 2, 1 2: a 27-hour marathon of innovative shows in a variety of online platforms including UpStage, Waterwheel Tap, Second Life, Visitors Studio, mosiaka.tv and others.
This programme celebrates the diversity of cyberformance, bold experimentation at the bleeding edge of live networked performance, and the growing popularity and accessibility of live internet art. The 28 shows, by more than 100 artists from around the world, are all accessible to online audiences with just a standard internet connection and browser: attending the shows is as easy as clicking a link.
Festival architects Vicki Smith and Helen Varley Jamieson said that opening up the festival to other online platforms has greatly expanded the festival, building connections and collaborations with other online arts communities and nurturing the fields of cyberformance and networked performance. "The underlying common factor is that the internet is the site for our live performance work; we use the tools that best suit the work, and we have an increasing variety of tools to choose from."
School children from the Chatham Islands and New Zealand's West Coast have created ten UpStage performances, which they will present to the world from their remote locations. Other UpStage performances are A Plunge in the Pool by the Dutch/Italian trio who wowed audiences at last year's festival with Flat Earth; Stratosphukic Storm by the French artists' collective APO33 who have participated in previous festivals; and i am here because you are here #4 by Stefan Riebel (Germany) who will experiment with using only the text chat element of the UpStage platform.
Six shows use the Waterwheel Tap, an online collaborative platform launched in 2011. These shows explore themes including desire, shadows, water and political protest; and one, Since the end of the world, will make use of brand new 3D webcam technology - audiences are recommended to wear 3D glasses! The Tap is also the venue for DELTAP: Nodes Welcome - sessions for the hosts of 121212 nodes around the world to exchange greetings and information about their events. Nodes are physical venues that screen sections of the festival programme for local audiences; this year there are 14 nodes, from New Zealand to Buenos Aires, Europe and the USA.
The virtual world Second Life is the site for three performances: Babble, Senses Places and Moving Mountains. Second Life users can attend the shows in-world, and a stream will be broadcast to the UpStage web site for audiences outside Second Life. Other shows employing streaming technology are: Angry, a new rendition of Annie Abraham's ongoing performative research into anger; Transamericana, connecting opposite ends of the Americas; and the networked music performances Oceans Between Sound by Ethernet Orchestra, and Netcomposition6 and Netcomposition7 by Ian Whalley and Ivan Zavada. The festival concludes with Dan Untitled's Afterparty, a live streamed DJ set by long-time UpStager Dan Untitled, who is also hosting an outdoor node in central Wellington.
This is the sixth annual festival of cyberformance - live online interactive events created and presented for online audiences. The 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance is supported by a grant from Creative New Zealand as well as a dedicated team of technical assistants, volunteers and a large community of artists. CityLink provides sponsored server hosting and the Auckland University of Technology supports the ongoing development of the UpStage platform through student projects.
For more
information,
visit www.upstage.org.nz or email
info@upstage.org.nz
Your donation to UpStage is much appreciated and will help to make 121212 a success!
Time in NZ
(12th) | Artists’ local
time | Show | RL nodes | live links |
11am find your local time | Open Stage - NZ schools Platform: UpStage | Christchurch Buenos Aires | Click here to enter | |
11.30am find your local time | 11.30pm CET (11th Dec) | i
am here because you are here #4 Platform: UpStage | Click here to enter | |
12
noon find your local time | Open Stage - NZ schools Platform: UpStage | Click here to enter | ||
12.30 find your local time | Open Stage - NZ schools Platform: UpStage | Click here to enter | ||
1pm find your local time | 7pm 11th EST | Moving
Mountains Platform: Second Life | Enter:
stream or SLURL | |
1.30 find your local time | 4pm 11th Vancouver 9pm 11th Chile | Transamericana 2012 Platform: Ustream | Click here to enter | |
2pm find your local time | Open Stage - NZ schools Platform: UpStage | Click here to enter | ||
2.30 find your local time | Open Stage - NZ schools Platform: UpStage | Click here to enter | ||
3.00pm find your local time | 9pm 11th Eastern USA | Good Water III:
Synchronicity Platform: Tap | Click here to enter | |
3.30 find your local time | 11.30pm, 11th Buenos Aires | Discussion in the 121212 Festival Foyer | Click here to enter | |
4pm find your local time | 4pm NZ 2pm Australia | Netcomposition6
& Netcomposition7 Platform: Icecast | Click here to enter | |
4.30pm find your local time | 10.30pm 11th Eastern USA | Excavating
Desire – Fouilles pour le Désire Platform: Tap | Click here to enter | |
BREAK Evening of 12th in NZ, morning of 12th in Europe | ||||
9.30pm find your local time | 9.30pm NZ 9.30am Sw | Oceans Between Sound – Ethernet
Orchestra Platform: Nicecast & Visitors Studio | Christchurch Wellington Oslo | Click here to enter |
10pm find your local time | 9am UK | BABBLE Platform: Second Life | Enter: stream or SLURL | |
10.30pm find your local time | 10.30am CET | Deltap: Nodes
Welcome, hosted by the 121212 hosts Platform: Tap | Click here to enter | |
11.00pm find your local time | 11pm NZ 9pm Australia | Netcomposition6
& Netcomposition7 Platform: Icecast | Click here to enter | |
11.30pm find your local time | 10.30am Portugal 7.30pm Japan | Senses
Places Platform: Second Life | Enter:
stream or SLURL | |
12 midnight find your local time | 12 noon CET | Stratosphukic Storm Platform: UpStage | Wellington Oslo Nantes | Click here to enter |
BREAK Dec 13th in NZ | ||||
2am NZ find your local time | 1pm UK (12th) | BABBLE Platform: Second Life | Oslo Eindhoven Nantes Exeter | Enter:
stream or SLURL |
2.30am NZ find your local time | 2.30pm CET (12th) 8.30am Eastern USA | Shadows
XXX Platform: Tap | Click here to enter | |
3am NZ find your local time | 3pm CET (12th) | A
plunge in the pool Platform: UpStage | Click here to enter | |
3.30am NZ find your local time | 9.30am Eastern USA | Good Water III:
Synchronicity Platform: Tap | Eindhoven Nantes Exeter Buenos Aires | Click here to enter |
4am
NZ find your local time | 12 noon BA (12th) | Since the end of the
World Platform: Tap | Click here to enter | |
4.30am NZ find your local time | 3.30pm UK (12th) | BABBLE Platform: Second Life | Enter: stream or SLURL | |
5am
NZ find your local time | 4pm UK (12th) | Merry Crisis & a Happy New
Fear Platform: Tap | Eindhoven Nantes Pancevo Exeter Buenos Aires | Click here to enter |
5.30am
NZ find your local time | 1.30pm (12th) Buenos Aires | Deltap: Nodes
Welcome, hosted by Alberto Vazquez, Buenos
Aires Platform: Tap | Click here to enter | |
6.00am NZ find your local time | 5pm Portugal (12th) 2am Japan | Senses
Places Platform: Second Life | Munich Eindhoven Pancevo Linz Exeter Buenos Aires | Enter: stream or SLURL |
6.30am NZ find your local time | 6.30pm CET (12th) | Land
Platform Platform: Tap | Click here to
enter | |
7am NZ find your local time | 7pm France (12th) | ANGRY Platform: Mosaika.tv | Munich Eindhoven Montpelier Portugal Nantes Pancevo Linz Exeter Buenos Aires | Click here to
enter |
7.30am NZ find your local time | 1pm EST (12th) | Excavating
Desire – Fouilles pour le Désire Platform: Tap | Click here to enter | |
8am NZ find your local time | 2pm EST (12th) | Moving
Mountains Platform: Second Life | Enter:
stream or SLURL | |
8.30am NZ find your local time | 8.30pm CET (12th) | a
plunge in the pool Platform: UpStage | Click here to enter | |
9am NZ find your local time | 9pm CET (12th) 9am NZ (13th) | Stratosphukic Storm Platform: UpStage | Click here to enter | |
9.30am NZ find your local time | GMT 8.30pm (12th) | Oceans Between Sound – Ethernet
Orchestra Platform: Nicecast & Visitors Studio | Click here to enter | |
10am NZ find your local time | 4pm EST 10pm CET (12th) | Shadows
XXX Platform: Tap | Munich Amherst Linz Buenos Aires | Click here to enter |
10.30am NZ find your local time | 6.30pm Buenos Aires | Deltap: Nodes
Welcome, hosted by the 121212 hosts Platform: Tap | Amherst Linz Buenos Aires | Click here to enter |
11am
NZ find your local time | 2pm Vancouver 7pm Chile | Transamericana
2012 Platform: | Click here to enter | |
11.30am find your local time | 11.30pm CET | i
am here because you are here #4 Platform: UpStage | Click here to enter | |
12 noon NZ find your local time | 6pm Eastern USA 12 midnight CET | ANGRY Platform: Mosaika.tv | Click here to enter | |
12.30pm NZ find your local time | 11.30pm UK | Merry Crisis & a Happy New
Fear Platform: Tap | Click here to enter | |
1pm NZ find your local time | 9pm BA (1am CET) | Since the end of the
World Platform: Tap | Buenos Aires | Click here to enter |
1.30pm NZ find your local time | 9.30pm BA 1.30am CET | Dan Untitled’s
Afterparty Platform: UpStage | Click here to enter |