2026-04-25 –, Zollhof
The last year has been another busy time for UpStage: we have secured a new hosting sponsorship with Prodigi.nz, and our development team is investigating AI tools.
Lead developer Gloria W. will explain how training Cursor on the UpStage code has allowed us to create new features and find difficult bugs in record time. These improvements and new features will be rolled into future versions of UpStage, after we stabilise our new deployment environment.
Helen Varley Jamieson is a theatre maker and digital artist, and one of the founders of UpStage. She has created many cyberformances in it as well as organising online festivals and giving workshops and presentations about UpStage and cyberformance for more than two decades. She is internationally recognised as a pioneer in this field. Helen is an advocate for the use of open source tools, and encourages artists to be curious about how the digital tools that they use actually work. She has presented UpStage several times at LGM and is involved in feminist open source networks and projects including the Eclectic Tech Carnival and Systerserver.