UVA will be making appearances at events across the world this Spring. Beginning close to home, UVA will be speaking at pervasive media studio in Bristol and at Made North festival in Liverpool on 21 February.
Further afield, UVA’s founders will be travelling to the Design Indaba conference in South Africa from 29 Feb – 2 March.
Shortly afterwards, UVA will be speaking at Offset festival in Dublin, Ireland on 11 March and Resonate in Belgrade, Serbia from 16-19 March.
Tickets can be purchased from event websites.
As part of the National Maritime Museum’s High Arctic Film Weekend Creative Director Matt Clark will be speaking in response to the David Buckland/Cape Farewell documentary Art from a Changing Arctic.
With Cape Farewell Director David Buckland and poet Nick Drake, Matt will be discussing the role of the arts in communicating climate issues.
15.30, Sunday 4 December, National Maritime Museum Lecture Theatre
All events at the film weekend are free with a ticket to the High Arctic exhibition.
Commissioning a new visual identity for the festival and tour each year, onedotzero have asked UVA to create an inventive trailer sequence.
Wanting to make the elements of the motion identity entirely from light, UVA used laser technology with typographical sequences reflecting the ephemeral nature of their installation work for the upcoming festival, 23-27 Nov 2011.
Photographed by James Medcraft, the trailer sequence features specially commissioned sound created by music and sound designer Nick Ryan.
UVA’s work Speed of Light has been published in a collection of the best design from Europe in 2010.
Selected B, a follow up of last year’s successful edition Selected A, showcases a range of design including typography, posters, motion graphics and interactive installations, the last category including Speed of Light.
Selected B is now available via Index Book publishers.
Returning to its New York roots after a successful tour to France, Brazil, Korea and China, the Creators Project will once more showcase a specially commissioned work by UVA, named Origin, in this year’s conclusive event that will take over DUMBO in Brooklyn 12 – 23 October.
As Creators, UVA have been involved since the project’s inception and have this year been touring a series of sculptural evolutions of Orchestrion, the famous Coachella cubic stage design, which was first presented in April at the festival and has been traveling with the Creators Project events globally since.
For the Beck’s Green Box project, UVA has created Moderne, a work derived from the structure of the box itself. From 13-17 October only, this contribution will be visible to the public on Ocean Drive and 10th, Miami Beach, FL 33139.
Fundamental forms such as grids and cubes are a common feature of UVA’s practice. In this instance the cube has been expanded and rotated, thus creating a sense of motion by means of a static sculptural object.
Through the use of colour Moderne makes reference to its Miami exhibition site; the vivid magenta bringing to mind the hot neon light of Ocean Drive.
UVA will be presenting their work this autumn globally, kicking off with two academic talks in Toronto to celebrate the opening of our latest work Slipstream, the first being on 28 Sept at Ryerson University followed by OCAD on 29 Sept.
Back in Europe, UVA will join the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of Copenhagen-based architecture firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen on 30 Sept with a talk.
On 6 October UVA will present at LoveLight in Shoreditch, London, an industry event inviting lighting designers and architects to join for free and get inspired.
UVA’s sculptural installation Slipstream is due to open to the public on 1 October during Toronto’s Nuit Blanche.
This permanent work aims to capture a sense of flight and aerodynamics, expressing the movement of the sky above to viewers below. It consists of 70 delicate prisms held in place by tensegrity wires; each successive prism is rotated one degree to create a continuous gesture of motion.
The animation of Slipstream changes throughout the day in response to sunlight and local meteorological data, such as wind speed.
Taking Illusion and Reality as this year’s theme, the annual GLOW festival in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, will feature UVA’s installation Volume as one of its highlights.
Combining a myriad of light-related artists, GLOW is an increasingly popular festival for the public, as well being an international forum of light in art and architecture.
This year’s festival will be from
5 – 12 November.
UVA’s Canopy has won the People’s Choice Award for Best Lighting Design at the first Annual AZ Awards held on 17 June 2011 in Toronto.
600 submissions from 25 countries were whittled down to 14 winners, 14 People’s Choice Award winners and 38 finalists.
The July/August issue of Azure magazine featuring all the winners and finalists will first be available in Canada from 27 June.
