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Chorus at The Wapping Project

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Chorus. Wapping Project

Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping Wall, London
15th June - 18th July 2010
Mon - Fri, 12 -10.30pm, Sat 10 - 10.30pm & Sun 10 - 6pm

United Visual Artists are presenting ‘Chorus’ at the The Wapping Project this Summer, the dark and cavernous industrial space in East London founded by theatre director Jules Wright.

‘Chorus’ is an array of motor-assisted pendulums which will be suspended from the roof of the Boiler House. Mounted on each of the pendulums are a light and a speaker. Together these pendulums form a single instrument that explores the relationship between performance, sculpture and installation.

Music by Mira Calix.
For more information visit the Wapping Project Website

Speed of Light

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:01:13 +0000

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Speed of Light. Multitude

Speed of Light Video

Sound by Matthias Kispert

Speed of Light celebrates the tenth anniversary of broadband in the UK. Stripped back to its essentials, optical fibre is a thin strand of glass, with nothing more than a flickering beam of light traveling along it. United Visual Artists have used this beam as the starting point for the work.

9th-19th of April 2010
Presented by Virgin Media
For more information visit the Speed of Light Website

Y-3 A/W 2010 Fashion Show

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:06:51 +0000

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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

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:57:24 +0000

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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 Panda making of

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:38:52 +0000

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Frozen in time. Silicone mold

Making ‘Frozen in time’

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WWF Pandamonium

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:54:03 +0000

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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.

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T : The New York Times Style Magazine

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:43:34 +0000

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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

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:18:29 +0000

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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