 About
UpStage is a web-based venue for online peformance and cyberformance.
Online audiences anywhere in the world can participate in
live performance events by going to a web page, without
having to download and install additional software and without
needing to know anything other than a web address.
Background
Project team members have been experimenting with various
forms of online theatre since 1999, and since 2002 as
the globally dispersed cyberformance troupe Avatar
Body Collision.
In most of Avatar Body Collision’s work, three
actors perform online, live, in real time, while one actor
performs in the proximal space of the hosting venue. The
remote performers appear projected on a screen, using
web cameras (audio visual chat software) and avatar world
technologies (using the Palace, a graphical chat application).
As the performances are delivered via several different
mediums, it has not been practical for audiences to follow
the show on-line.
UpStage has changed all that. The software combines the
various elements of cyberformance - web cams, audio, graphical
avatars, text chat and who knows what else in the future
- into a single web page. The audience simply points their
browser to the UpStage web site at the appointed time,
to watch and participate in the cyberformance.
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Related Projects
- Visitors'
Studio: developed by Neil Jenkins and Furtherfield,
the Visitors' Studio is a live multi-user audio-visual
mixing studio. Like UpStage, it uses Flash to serve
the mix live to a browser. It can be set so that only
certain people have control of the mixer or that it's
completely open.
- Wirefire:
developed by Entropy8Zuper!, Wirefire was a live online
performance that took place weekly from July 1999 to
January 2003. The technology consists of Perl servers
and Flash clients and uses sockets to share data in
real time, serving media including interactive animations,
web cam images, sound and text to a web page.
- unmovie:
a multi-user Flash/Python based application where human
users and bots collaborate as 'screenwriting poets'.
- cosy-corner:
brings together webcams in a web page.
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