Vanishing Point employs perspective as both tool and visual outcome to reshape, redefine and represent a space. Inspired by sketches of Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo DaVinci and Albrecht Dürer, UVA sends lines into space from an arbitrary vanishing point, creating different volumes, divisions and rooms to be explored by the audience.

Materials
RGB Laser, Black Voile, Code

Dimensions
6m (W) x 3m (H) x 15m (D)

Taking a closer look into the sound and light waves traveling the world around us, Continuum was born out of studies into interference; interacting waves that are refracted by the environment and spaces we occupy. The piece is an attempt to merge the visible and invisible and to observe the complex fringes of order. With Continuum, we take this idea of interfering fields, and
try to reapply it outside the confinements of physics.

Materials
Steel, Timber, PCB, White LED, Code

Dimensions
830 mm (W) x 944 mm (H) x 40 mm (D)

Grey Area is a new work that samples from UVA’s ongoing study on—and experimentation with—light. The seed for this series is a simple idea; a window into the digital. 

Every computer screen is a window into the digital. It allows us a view into a virtual world. Though similarly, it is an impassable barrier. UVA’s fascination lies with the moment this barrier becomes less defined. Most of our world exists already well within this grey area. However, inextricably linked as they may already be, the transitional space between the two is still largely restricted to screens. 

Grey Area constitutes this very observation; it takes the virtual and physical, this black and white distinction, and creates a grey area, a no-man’s land.

Acrylic, Brass, LED, Code
91cm (W) x 118cm (H) x 29cm (D)

The show opens on Tuesday 12th February 2013 at 18:00 in the Gallery at Via Lambro 7.

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Fragment is a site specific installation that investigates our (in)ability to correctly interpret the surrounding environment. The work continues the studio’s ongoing study into scientific models of nature and their experiments in utilising light as a formable material.

421 octahedron frames are assembled to form an inverted pyramid, suspended in a day-lit atrium, catching and reflecting light downwards into the space. Artificial white light is animated within the structure to create fragmented images; shapes that allude to real world illusions such as a desert mirage or fata morgana.

Commissioned by Chalhoub Group for Level, Dubai

Aluminium, Steel, Monochromatic LED, Code
7.7m (H) x 7.5m (W) x 7.5m (D)

UVA is pleased to present an exclusive short film, produced in collaboration with VANDEYK Contemporary Cycles for NOWNESS.

The film was made using the first production prototype of their newest bicycle.

Watch it on nowness.com.

Always/Never is the result of UVA’s recent investigations of the perception of time.

Always/Never is a grid of pyramidal elements inspired by the sundial, each passing through time at a different rate.

Changing patterns of light and shadow create the illusion of a fluid surface; shifting combinations of colours from nature recall different times of day.

Powder Coated Steel, Timber, LED, Code

1750 x 2900 x 174 mm

This Autumn UVA will be presenting Always/Never, a new work that explores time and our experience of its passing.  Exhibited from 14 Sept – 28 Oct as part of Let There Be Light at Gazelli Art House, the sculpture employs projected geometric patterns of light and shade, like a complex sundial.

Always/Never demonstrates how passing units of time are somewhat artificial and highly relative. The viewer’s perception of time is subtly altered by a different system of time measurement to what they have previously encountered.

For more details about the exhibition visit www.gazelliarthouse.com

UVA’s High Arctic is nominated for the 2012 Design of the Year Award.

This is the third time UVA has been selected for the longlist in the awards’ five year history.

The Design Museum’s annual celebration of the most ground-breaking work in design of all kinds from around the world falls into seven categories: architecture, digital, fashion, furniture, graphics, product and transport.

High Arctic will be represented amongst the other nominees at the Design of the Year 2012 exhibition at the Design Museum from 8 February until 15 July.