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    hi everyone,<br>
    the first part of the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance:
    "Walking Backwards into the Future" begins this wednesday 5
    december!!! a media release is copied below & you can download
    the full release and schedule in pdf format here: <a
      class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/wp-content/uploads/121212_WBIFRelease.pdf">http://upstage.org.nz/blog/wp-content/uploads/121212_WBIFRelease.pdf</a>
    and the flyer here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/wp-content/uploads/121212UpStageFestivalofCyberformance.png">http://upstage.org.nz/blog/wp-content/uploads/121212UpStageFestivalofCyberformance.png</a><br>
    <br>
    please help us to spread the word by forwarding this to your
    networks. we look forward to an exciting festival & hope you
    will join us online!<br>
    <br>
    helen & vicki :)<br>
    <br>
    <br>
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      <blockquote style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: center">The
        121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance begins this Wednesday,
        5 December, with a retrospective programme entitled "Walking
        Backwards into the Future."</blockquote>
    </div>
    <blockquote style="margin-left: 0cm; background: #ffffff"><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Proverbs from many cultures
        express the concept of "walking backwards into the future" (in
        Maori, "ka mura, ka muri"), to learn from those who have gone
        before us as we forge new paths; it is also a quote from media
        theorist Marshall McLuhan. In this spirit, the first part of the
        121212 UpStage Festival seeks to acknowledge and celebrate the
        body of cyberformance work that has been created since the first
        UpStage festival in 2007.</font></blockquote>
    <blockquote style="margin-left: 0cm"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
        size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal">Walking Backwards
          into the Future</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"
        size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal"><font
            style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="font-weight:
              normal"> (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=3430">http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=3430</a>)</span></font>
          takes place from 5-11 December, and is followed by a programme
          of new works, Testing 1 2, 1 2, 1 2 (<a
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
            href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=3447">http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=3447</a>),

          over 27 hours on Wednesday 12 December (with a bit on the 11th
          and 13th, depending on your time zome).</span></font></blockquote>
    <blockquote style="margin-left: 0cm"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
        size="2">Opening the festival is <i>Come and Go</i><span
          style="font-style: normal"> by Avatar Body </span><i>Collision</i><span
          style="font-style: normal">, the cyberformance troupe who
          initiated UpStage in 2003. In this cyberformance the group
          faithfully represent's Samuel Beckett's short play </span><i>Come




          and Go</i><span style="font-style: normal"> in the online
          environment. The avatars' words and actions adhere strictly to
          the script, under the watchful eye of a tyrannical director
          and with comments from Beckett himself.</span></font></blockquote>
    <blockquote style="margin-left: 0cm"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
        size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal">Other highlights from
          070707 are: </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"
        size="2"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">Baba Yaga</span></i></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:
          normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">, incorporating
            shadow puppet techniques into a beautiful cyberformance: </span></span></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>Freeze Flight or Fight</i></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:
          normal">, which invites audiences to share their experiences
          of dealing with rejection; </span></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>Learn to Hear Through the
          Lies of Your Eyes: The Cyberforming Hybridization of
          Tuxedomoon</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
          style="font-style: normal">, which "addresses the position of
          the contemporary musician in a relation to predominantly
          scopophilic regime of the Artworld based on information
          technology"; and </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"
        size="2"><i>Interface</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"
        size="2"><span style="font-style: normal">, a playful
          face-to-face meeting on the surface of the interface.</span></font></blockquote>
    <blockquote style="margin-left: 0cm"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
        size="2"><span style="font-style: normal"><span
            style="font-weight: normal">From the 080808 UpStage
            Festival, there is: </span></span></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>Calling Home: The Big
          Get-Together,</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
          style="font-style: normal"> the show which spawned the
          cyberformance troupe Activelayers; </span></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">RxEgo-go, exploring the role of
        medi(c)ation in a symptomatized, technologized society; </font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>Mysterious Mali's Drawings</i></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:
          normal">, a super-hero tale by children in Brisbane; and </span></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>Veni! Ελθέ! Dodji! to the
          Zapata Private/Pirate Birthday Party. And, Vice Versa …</i></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:
          normal"> a cyberformance celebration of the birthday of
          Mexican revolutionary Emilio Zapata.</span></font></blockquote>
    <blockquote style="margin-left: 0cm"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
        size="2"><span style="font-style: normal">A "kitchen of the
          future" is the setting for </span></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>The Dish</i></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:
          normal">, originally presented at the 090909 festival. From
          101010, </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>MASS-MESS





        </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
          style="font-style: normal">explores the meaning of symbols in
          a world of mass production, and </span></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>S/Zports: A Training for the
          Possible Wor(l)ds</i></font><font color="#000000"><font
          style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i><span
              style="text-decoration: none"> </span></i></font></font><font
        color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
            style="font-style: normal"><span style="text-decoration:
              none">applies the vocabulary of sports to alternative
              social relations. And f</span></span></font></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:
          normal">rom last year's festival, 11:11:11, we have </span></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>Flat Earth</i></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:
          normal"> - a poetic journey on the source of ideas - and </span></font><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>Magfalda Meets the World in
          Pieces</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
          style="font-style: normal"> - a journey of discovery.</span></font></blockquote>
    <blockquote style="margin-left: 0cm"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
        size="2">All of the performances are accessible to online
        audiences via a standard web browser: visit <a
          class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
          href="http://www.upstage.org.nz">www.upstage.org.nz</a> to
        find live links to the stages at the performance time.</font></blockquote>
    <blockquote style="margin-left: 0cm"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
        size="2">On Thursday 6 December there will be a "node" -
        screening of performances at a physical venue - at Odin Teatret
        in Holstebro, Denmark, from 4pm-6pm CET.</font></blockquote>
    <blockquote style="margin-left: 0cm"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
        size="2">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.</font></blockquote>
    <div align="center">Download the full release and schedule here: <br>
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/wp-content/uploads/121212_WBIFRelease.pdf">http://upstage.org.nz/blog/wp-content/uploads/121212_WBIFRelease.pdf</a><br>
    </div>
    <blockquote style="margin-left: 0cm; text-align: center"><font
        style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>For more information, <br>
          visit <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
            href="http://www.upstage.org.nz">www.upstage.org.nz</a> or
          email <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
            href="mailto:info@upstage.org.nz">info@upstage.org.nz</a></b></font></blockquote>
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      center"> <font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b><span
            style="font-style: normal">Your donation to UpStage<br>
            is much appreciated and will help<br>
            to make 121212 a success!<br>
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              href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=278">http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=278</a><br>
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