United Visual Artists

Established in 2003, UnitedVisualArtists are an art and design practice based in London. UVA produce work at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, live performance, moving image and digital installation.
UVA’s team members come from many disciplines including fine art, architecture, communication design, moving image, computer science and engineering.
The cross-pollination of diverse skills inspires new fields of exploration, which is core to
their ethos.
Pushing the boundaries of research, software and engineering with every project, UVA’s work aims above all to be meaningful and engaging.

My Opinion:

UVA's work has helped me in thinking about adding new materials for my experiments. I have been working towards developing a series of laser light experiments and my entire research has helped me understand that lights and projections are not merely limited by screens or walls. I am focusing to bring out the engineer in me and with a few small artistic electronic advancements I wish to build a series of different visual experiences. Since I am at the stage of understanding the mechanism of projectors, lights and laser equipment I am unaware of how I will conduct these experiments but i'm sure I'll shortly be able to come up with something grand.

Till such time enjoy the master pieces of these artists -

Volume - United Visual Artists

Volume is a sculpture of light and sound, an array of light columns positioned dramatically in the centre of the garden.
Volume responds spectacularly to human movement, creating a series of audio-visual experiences. Step inside and see your actions at play with the energy fields throughout the space, triggering a brilliant display of light and sound.

Speed Of Light - United Visual Artists

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.

Canopy - United Visual Artists

Inspired by the experience of walking through the dappled light of a forest, Canopy is a 90-metre long light sculpture spanning the front facade of the building, using mass production and precise fabrication to evoke and reflect nature. Thousands of identical modules, their form abstracted from the geometry of leaves, are organised in a non-repeating growth pattern.

During the day, apertures in the modules filter natural light to the street below. After dusk, particles of artificial light are born, navigate through the grid and die, their survival determined by regions of energy sweeping across the structure. The result simultaneously recalls the activity of cells within a leaf, leaves in a forest canopy, or a city seen from the air.

Materials - Powder coated steel, anodised aluminium, injection moulded polycarbonate, LED, Code
Dimensions - 90 metres x 3 metre