Yota Space
Encyclopedia
Yota Space is a non-profit international digital art
festival organized by Yota
in St. Petersburg
since 2010.
, Russia. The festival is dedicated to contemporary
digital
and interactive art
. Yota Space is the space of the future, an exciting creative environment, a platform for sharing experiences and knowledge. The festival is conceived as a space of creative growth and exchange of experience, a major component of the project is an educational
program.
, Masters of Skweee, D-Pulse, SCSI-9, etc. The festival received wide coverage in Russian and international press. The Financial Times named Yota Space "The largest digital arts festival in Europe".
will host Yota Space International Digital Art
again. During six weeks the public will be immersed in the interactive space, and transform themselves and their perceptions with new experiences and emotions. As for the first time, the festival will be filled with interactive installations
, kinetic
and media sculptures, 3D-projections
, other digital art masterpieces, audio-visual performances
, lectures and concerts.
President Yota Space Curatorial Board: Alexandra Sanchez-Perez (Yota
).
Digital art
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
festival organized by Yota
Yota
Yota is the trademark of a Russian multinational telecommunications services provider . Yota currently operates in Russia, Belarus and Nicaragua and will launch in Peru very soon...
in St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
since 2010.
The Concept
Yota Space is an international festival in St. PetersburgSaint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
, Russia. The festival is dedicated to contemporary
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
digital
Digital art
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
and interactive art
Digital art
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
. Yota Space is the space of the future, an exciting creative environment, a platform for sharing experiences and knowledge. The festival is conceived as a space of creative growth and exchange of experience, a major component of the project is an educational
Educational program
An educational program is a program written by the ministry of education which determines the learning progress of each subject in all the stages of formal education....
program.
Yota Space 2010
The first Yota Space festival was held in St. Petersburg December 5-19, 2010 in a giant former Stalin-era Frunzenskiy department store (Moskovsky Prospect, 60). The festival Grand Opening show was featured with a concert involving Hot ChipHot Chip
Hot Chip are an English electronic indie band. They have released four studio albums—Coming on Strong, The Warning, Made in the Dark and One Life Stand.-Formation:...
, Masters of Skweee, D-Pulse, SCSI-9, etc. The festival received wide coverage in Russian and international press. The Financial Times named Yota Space "The largest digital arts festival in Europe".
Artists
- United Visual Artists
- Jason Bruges Studio
- Brian EnoBrian EnoBrian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
- MSA Visuals
- Chris Levine
- onedotzero
- Hellicar + Lewis
- AntiVJ
- Quayola
- Cassette Playa
- Kin Design
- onedotzero_industries
- LAB212
- Joon Y Moon
- Max HattlerMax HattlerMax Hattler is a German video artist and experimental filmmaker best known for his kaleidoscopic political short films “Collision” and "Spin" , abstract stop motion work "AANAATT" , and psychedelic animation loops "1923 aka Heaven" and "1925 aka Hell" .- Biography :Max Hattler was born in Ulm,...
- Universal Everything
- Musion
- AV:in
- Russian Visual Artists
Yota Space 2012
In Spring 2012 St. PetersburgSaint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
will host Yota Space International Digital Art
Digital art
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
again. During six weeks the public will be immersed in the interactive space, and transform themselves and their perceptions with new experiences and emotions. As for the first time, the festival will be filled with interactive installations
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
, kinetic
Kinetic art
Kinetic art is art that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effect. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer. Kinetic art encompasses a wide variety of overlapping techniques and styles.-Kinetic sculpture:...
and media sculptures, 3D-projections
3D projection
3D projection is any method of mapping three-dimensional points to a two-dimensional plane. As most current methods for displaying graphical data are based on planar two-dimensional media, the use of this type of projection is widespread, especially in computer graphics, engineering and drafting.-...
, other digital art masterpieces, audio-visual performances
Performance art
In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
, lectures and concerts.
Artists
Among the participants of Yota Space 2012 are Djeff (France), Lab [au] (Belgium), MSA Visuals (UK), Danniel Hirschman (Germany), Nordic Creative (Norway), Studio Roosergaarde (Netherlands), Zigelbaum + Coelho (USA/Brazil), Jonas Heuer (Germany), Martin Richardson & Chris Levine (UK), Lawrence Malstaf (Belgium), Felix Luque Sanchez (Spain), John Miserendino, Charles Carcopino (Italy), Kurt Hentschläger (Austria / USA), Motoi Ishibashi & Daite Manabe (Japan), Russian Visuals Artists (Russia) and many others.Curatorial Board
Yota Space Festival Curatorial Board:- Shane RJ Walter (onedotzeroOnedotzeroonedotzero is a contemporary, digital arts organisation with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and motion arts....
, CEO) - Soh-yeong Roh (Art Center NabiArt Center NabiArt Center Nabi is an art museum in Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea.Since its opening, Art Center Nabi has actively promoted new media arts in Korea. Exploring new possibilities of creation, education, and exhibition of media arts, Art Center Nabi has been in the forefront of the convergence of art...
Direcor, South Korea) - Ilya Oskolkov-Tsenzieper (Strelka Institute, Russia, Director)
- Olga Sviblova (Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Director)
- Anna Belyaeva and Olga Barkovskaya (independent art curators)
President Yota Space Curatorial Board: Alexandra Sanchez-Perez (Yota
Yota
Yota is the trademark of a Russian multinational telecommunications services provider . Yota currently operates in Russia, Belarus and Nicaragua and will launch in Peru very soon...
).