Helen Varley Jamieson
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Helen Varley Jamieson is a writer, theatre practitioner and digital artist; she has worked in digital media and the internet since 1996. She is the project manager of UpStage, software for live online performance and is a founding member of the globally dispersed cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision. Helen has recently completed a master of arts (research) in cyberformance at Queensland University of Technology.

email:helenATcreative-catalyst.com
website: http://www.creative-catalyst.com/
member of:  Avatar Body Collision, disturb.the.peace, SCANZ, Trondheim Matchmaking
personal tags:  activism, collaboration, cyberfeminism, distributed creativity, DIY, feminism, free software, independent, live, narrative, networked, peace, performance, real time, text, theory
Projects by Helen Varley
Articles/Reviews by Helen Varley
 Sprint As Process

released 2/8/10
Helen Varley Jamieson's account of working collaboratively in Madrid to rebuild the Eclectic Tech Carnival's web site. On a 'sprint', with 5 women coming together for a week, physically & remotely. Using Floss Manuals' methodologies and CiviCRM, a free, libre and open source software and Drupal.
activism, collaboration, collective, community, conference, copyleft, creative commons, cyberfeminism, DIY, event, feminism, festival, free code, free software, hacking, hactivism, independent, participation, Political, social, theory
 Calling Home

released 31/7/08
As 080808, the second UpStage Festival of live online performances, draws closer, one of the14 selected performances has already begun: Calling Home Part 1 by activelayers was presented on Tuesday 1st July. Helen Varley Jamieson reviews the live networked event.
audiovisual, collaboration, event, interactive, Internet Art, interplay, reflection, remix, web art
 SCANZ

released 8/9/06
SCANZ represented the 1st Polar/Solar Circuit event to be held in New Zealand, and the 1st festival bringing together 25 artists from NZ and around the world for a two week collaborative residency.
collaboration
 A Perfect Match [2004]

released 6/5/05
The annual Trondheim Matchmaking (TMM) festival is "an arena for presentations of innovative ideas and artistic projects: a place where competence and resources are maintained and developed".
conference, event, festival, institutions, performance, sound
 Eclectic Tech Carnival (/etc) 2004

released 15/9/04
Each event has been organised by local women inspired by the previous /etc, and by the desire to create a positive space for women to learn about and play with computers.
agency, article, collaboration, critical, cyberfeminism, dialogue, digital, DIY, event, feminism, festival, gender, media art
 Europe? Pass me another sandwich

released 4/6/04
Musings of a non-European at the Trans-European Picnic, 29 April-1 May 2004, Novi Sad, Serbia & Montenegro. Organised by V2 and Kuda.org
article, behaviour, conference, dialogue, event, festival, journalism, media art, participation, social
 SCANZ #1

created 8/9/06
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SCANZ represented the 1st Polar/Solar Circuit event to be held in New Zealand, and the 1st festival bringing together 25 artists from NZ and around the world for a two week collaborative residency.
collaboration
 A Perfect Match

created 5/5/05
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The annual Trondheim Matchmaking (TMM) festival is "an arena for presentations of innovative ideas and artistic projects: a place where competence and resources are maintained and developed".
conference, event, festival, institutions, performance, sound
 Eclectic Tech Carnival (/etc) 2004

created 14/9/04
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Each event has been organised by local women inspired by the previous /etc, and by the desire to create a positive space for women to learn about and play with computers.
agency, article, collaboration, critical, cyberfeminism, dialogue, digital, DIY, event, feminism, festival, gender, media art
 Europe? Pass me another sandwich

created 4/6/04
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Musings of a non-European at the Trans-European Picnic, 29 April – 1 May 2004, Novi Sad, Serbia & Montenegro. Organised by V2 and Kuda.org
article, behaviour, conference, dialogue, event, festival, journalism, media art, participation, social
 UpStage

created 9/1/04
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UpStage is a web-based venue for cyberformance - live online performance by multiple distributed players for online interactive audiences.
audiovisual, collaboration, creative commons, distributed creativity, DIY, festival, free code, free software, independent, interactive, live, multi-user, narrative, networked, participation, performance, platform, real time
 Eclectic Tech Carnival

created 1/1/04
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The The Eclectic Tech Carnival is an annual gathering of women interested in open source technology and gaining confidence with computers.
activism, collaboration, collective, community, conference, copyleft, creative commons, cyberfeminism, DIY, event, feminism, festival, free code, free software, hacking, hactivism, independent, participation, Political, social, theory
 Dress The Nation

created 8/8/03
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On 3rd March 2003 Avatar Body Collision, joined the Lysistra Project in a worldwide theatre event for peace!
aesthetic, agency, audiovisual, behaviour, browser art, collaboration, community, cyberculture, cyberfeminism, dialogue, digital, event, interactive, Internet Art, interplay, live, media art, multi-user, narrative, net art, networked, participation, performance, real time, remix, resource, satire, social, Technical Resources