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Y-3 A/W 2010 Fashion Show

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Y-3. Opening of Show

United Visual Artists created a light installation for Y-3’s Fall 2010 show as part of New York Fashion Week. A white monolith of light created a void out of which the models emerged. Using white lasers, UVA built an illusion of architectural forms that defined the catwalk area, shifting in shape and composition over the course of the show.

Chorus Durham Cathedral

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Chorus. Durham Cathedral

Chorus at Durham Cathedral

Chorus’, UVA’s kinetic installation with sound by Mira Calix, recently featured in Artichoke’s ‘Lumiere’in the world heritage site of Durham Cathedral. An array of motor-assisted pendulums weaves through space emitting light and sound. The rhythm of the work evolves through chaos and returns to unison, producing a hypnotic and seductive performance that heightens the viewer’s awareness of the space and their relationship with it. More than 75,000 people visited the festival, over the 4-day period.

Onward - Royal Academy

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Onward. Royal Academy

Evolution Development

‘Onward’ is a commission from The Royal Academy and Burlington Arcade as part of GSK Contemporary, Earth: Art of a Changing World. Hung throughout the arcade and culminating in the portico of Burlington Gardens, ‘Onward’ presents a simple allegory of evolution through mutation.

Massive Attack United Snakes

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:46:53 +0000

United Snakes making of..
United Snakes Quicktime version

Massive Attack: “United Snakes”
Animation by UVA, directed by Dave Ferner

Originally designed for Massive Attack’s live show at Beck’s Fusions 2008, this animation is now available online. The video was designed using custom 3D software developed by UVA, which allowed the creation of spontaneous, organic forms, simply by “sketching” the outlines.

Made with openframeworks
Additional coding by Tak Fung (view Tak’s recent projects here)

WWF Pandamonium

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Frozen in time. C-Type Print 91 x 71 cm

Artwise Curators gave 16 internationally recognised artists and designers the iconic WWF panda-shaped collecting boxes to use as a vehicle to increase awareness of our world’s fragility in the 21st Century, and to raise funds for the charity’s continued environmental conservation work. UVA’s contribution, ‘Frozen in Time’, is a window into the delicate and ephemeral moment of a glistening representation of the WWF mascot.

UVA recreated the panda in ice, then allowed it to melt in their studio. This single image remains – the only record of its existence.

Visit the WWF Pandamonium website WWF Pandamonium

T : The New York Times Style Magazine

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Times T Magazine. Front Cover.

Times T featuring music by Mira Calix
Times T 3D Fly through

To celebrate the 5th anniversary issue, 5 artists were commissioned to reinterpret the iconic ‘T’ for the cover of the New York Times Style Magazine. The selected artists were Frank Gehry, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons and Tom Hingston Studio & United Visual Artists. The Tom Hingston & UVA collaboration has an accompanying film online, featuring music by Mira Calix.

Deus

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Deus. The Smithfield Gallery

UVA’s first photographic show explores the potential of light to redefine an environment, both physically and emotionally. The exhibition aims to distill the experience of UVA’s installation work into a series of striking, large-scale images. These photographs document a number of experimental light installations in secluded areas of Britain - huge artificial lights which are in sharp contrast to the natural landscape around them, creating an ephemeral new space.

Exhibition runs from the June 3rd – 27th 2009
The Smithfield Gallery, London

Chorus

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Chorus. The pendulums swinging in the Howard Assembly Room..

Chorus

Commissioned to celebrate the re-opening of the Howard Assembly Room, ‘Chorus’ is simultaneously an intensely physical and yet ephemeral experience. An array of motor-assisted pendulums, suspended from the roof, swing through the space emitting light and sound. As the dynamic system evolves, the rhythms revolve through chaos and return to unison, producing a hypnotic and seductive performance that heightens the viewer’s awareness of the space and their relationship with it. ‘Chorus’ is effectively a new kind of musical instrument, one in which the spatial location of each sound is a critical part of the composition of the piece.

Commissioned by Opera North
in association with The Culture Company

Music by Mira Calix
The Howard Assembly Room, Opera North, Leeds.

Last Photo of Slide Show by Julia Parsons.

February 6th - March 1st

Mondays- Saturdays 13:00-19.30

Array

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Array. Chuya Museum, Yamaguchi.

Array

Commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts And Media (YCAM)
for their fifth anniversary, as part of the Yuda Art Project.
Supported by The British Council, Tokyo

‘Array’ is a field of columns set in the courtyard of the Chuya Nakahara
Memorial Museum in Southern Japan. The columns create a field of
light and sound which gently shifts in response to the viewers’ movements,
via a hidden network of ultrasonic sensors. Each column is lit by a pure,
shimmering white light. This forest of light light calls you in, and its response
to your movement invites you to explore. Inside the grid lives a spirit,
in the form of a single pure red light. This spirit is timid but often playful,
revealing itself boldly then disappearing.

Echo, Teatro Sociale di Como, Italy

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Echo. Performed at Teatro Sociale di Como, Italy

November 2009

In collaboration with the dance group Mimbre, ‘Echo’,
was performed in the monumental setting of Como’s Teatro Sociale
in Italy. This work was originally commissioned by Vamp for the Tate
Modern’s turbine hall. Using advanced 3-D cameras to capture the
physicality of the dancers movement, this was then translated in real
time to a monumental backdrop creating a simultaneous performance.
‘Echo’ will be touring internationally in 2009.