Yota Space is a non-profit international digital art festival organized by Yota in St. Petersburg since 2010.
The Concept Yota Space is an international festival in St. Petersburg, 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.
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 Chip, Masters of Skweee, D-Pulse, SCSI-9, etc. The festival received wide coverage in Russian and internationalYota Space digital art festival, Wallpaper, 13.12.2010.Yota Space: The light fantastic, Independent, 15.12.2010. press. The Financial Times named Yota Space "The largest digital arts festival in Europe". Smart materials, Financial Times, 30.12.2010.
Artists onedotzero United Visual ArtistsUnited Visual Artists Jason Bruges StudioJason Bruges Studio Brian Eno MSA Visuals Chris Levine Hellicar + Lewis AntiVJ Quayola Cassette Playa Kin Design onedotzero_industries Lab212 Joon Y Moon Max Hattler Universal Everything
OMG Sounds Productions AV:in Russian Visual Artists
Yota Space 2012 In Spring 2012 St. Petersburg hosted Yota Space International Digital Art again. During six weeks the public was immersed in the interactive space, and transform themselves and their perceptions with new experiences and emotions. As for the first time, the festival was filled with interactive installations, kinetic and media sculptures, 3D-projections, other digital art masterpieces, audio-visual performances, 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: Alexandra Sanchez-Perez (Yota). Shane RJ Walter (onedotzero, Creative Director) Ilya Oskolkov-Tsenzieper (Strelka Institute , Russia, Director) Olga Sviblova (Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Director)
References
External links Yota Space Official Website Yota Space on Vimeo Yota Space on YouTube Yota Official Website onedotzero project page