{"id":850,"date":"2010-12-14T21:51:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T21:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/?p=850"},"modified":"2010-12-14T22:25:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T22:25:47","slug":"art-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Art on Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re nobody in London if you&#8217;ve not got a Russian backer these days. Mine comes in the form of super trendy, Yota, a 4G wireless internet provider who took me out to St Petersburg last week to shoot some of their people and kit\u2026 Yep, Russians in the snow with their dongles!!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter two days shooting lifestyle and meeting their main man (who apparently has no intention of investing in Charlton Athletic). The final part of my brief was to cover \u201dSpace\u201d a digital arts festival, in a disused hypermarket.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt was pretty much a gathering of the top U.K digital artists Chris Levine, Jason Bruges and Shane Walter. Look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XtAUQewneIw\">here<\/a> for a better explanation.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cimmersive\u201d is very much a buzz word in contemporary art and everything here was to some degree interactive. I particularly enjoyed the exhition by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedotzero.com\/\">onedotzero<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/14\/art-on-ice\/yotaspaceemailres_jalden0012\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-851\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/YOTAspaceEMAILRES_jalden0012-420x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"onedotzero\" width=\"420\" height=\"277\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-851\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe uber-trendy Russian art set spruced around the warehouse with  their funny haircuts and inquiring looks, presumably as happy to get involved with the art as they were to stay out of the cold, it was -16<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/14\/art-on-ice\/yotaspaceemailres_jalden0099\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/YOTAspaceEMAILRES_jalden0099-420x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Yota Space Festival\" width=\"420\" height=\"279\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-852\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe opening day was rounded off by a performance from HotChip. After 15 minutes of arguing with security in the same slow, load English that my Dad uses when abroad, I managed to get into the pit and do my stuff.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/14\/art-on-ice\/yotaspaceemailres_jalden0225\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-859\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/YOTAspaceEMAILRES_jalden0225-279x420.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Chip\" title=\"Hot Chip\" width=\"279\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-859\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWho says photographing technology isn\u2019t culturally rewarding!!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re nobody in London if you&#8217;ve not got a Russian backer these days. 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