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  • Coventry University dominates in the centre of Coventry, a sprawling campus that is gradually swalllowing more and more formerly public spaces as it builds an academic empire on top of what was once the bustling centre of a large manufacturing town.
  • The "UFF" situation took place in Graz, Austria from 17-22 May 2013 and was concerned with food generally, and more specifically with the industrialisation of Austrian farming practices and the impact of this on animal welfare, the environment, and
  • Peopoly -
    The third "situation" took place in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 15-18 April 2013 with the them of global mobility and migration. The performance, called Peopoly, used the structure of a board game to explore the experiences of different visitors to
  • e-waste -
    The first "We have a Situation!" workshop series exploring the problem of e-waste and the creative potential of digital and online technologies took place in London between 19-22 March 2013 with the networked performative event on Saturday 23 March
  • The first UpStage Festival was part of the launch of UpStage 2 and took place on July 7 2007. Thirteen performances were presented in UpStage by artists from around the world, performed online for audiences around the world and simultaneously
  • The 090909 UpStage Festival took place on 9 September 2009 (with bits on the 8th or the 10th depending on where you were in the world). 14 performances by artists across 9 time zones were presented over the 20 hours of the festival, with audiences
  • The 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance took place 5-12 December 2012 and consisted of two parts: - “Walking backwards into the future” – remounted cyberformances from the past 5 festivals (5-11 December) - “Testing – 1 2, 1 2, 1 2” – new
  • The 10th Birthday of UpStage was celebrated on 9-10 January 2014 with three performances, a symposium on remote collaboration, a planning meeting and the launch of UpStage v3. The event was supported by CityLink (who provided free wifi), the venue
  • ISEA2015-DISRUPTIONS -
    21st International Symposium on Electronic Art, august 14th - 19th, 2015. ISEA2015’s theme of DISRUPTION invites a conversation about the aesthetics of change, renewal, and game-changing paradigms. We look to raw bursts of energy, reconciliation,
  • The daily meal is a powerful human institution and the family dinner table a site where food and home meld into an ‘intimate place’ of nurture. But, in times when climate change jeopardizes food security the question of ‘what will we eat in the