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.

Origin is the latest development in UVA’s exploration of large-scale responsive LED sculpture.  As part of The Creators Project New York event, UVA have created Origin, a responsive installation meant to explore our society’s acceptance of a technocratic life form.

Hedged between the two Bridges on Brooklyn’s shore, a 10m x 10m cube of light both disrupts and reflects the City, eliciting an emotional reaction from those that enter its realm. Origin is the culmination of a series of works derived from Orchestrion, the main stage design created by UVA for Coachella 2011.

Origin is the product of a collaboration between United Visual Artists and Scanner, who composed the score.

For the stage design of the new Red Hot Chili Peppers tour that started October 2011, UVA have taken the band’s iconic octagonal logo and exploded it upwards and outwards, creating a bold and futuristic octagonal chandelier above the stage.

This exploded icon is a versatile sculptural form, which is part lighting surface and part high definition video screen. Directly below it is an LED floor in the same octagonal shape which lights the band and changes with their movements.

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.

Slipstream is a 135-metre light sculpture for Toronto’s Eaton Centre. Inspired by the great length and depth of the Centre’s galleria, with its iconic glass vault,  Slipstream suggests a connection to the sky and natural light above, by conveying sense of flight and aerodynamics.

The sculpture is comprised of 70 prisms, each suspended delicately in tension along the axis of the galleria. Tensegrity wires hold the sculpture in place, their orientation echoing and extending the geometry of the prisms themselves. Each successive prism is rotated by one degree to create a single gesture of motion.

The animation of Slipstream changes in response to the movement of the sun throughout the day and local meteorological factors, such as wind speed. At night, as light animates from within, a momentum is created as impulses of light shift and stream throughout.

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.

Read more on the Creators Project blog.

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 25^th 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.