United Visual Artists - LIGHT

UVA are an art and design company based in London who produce work using moving image, digital installation, sculpture, live performance and architecture. The team come from a variety of backgrounds, allowing for a lot of diversity to be crossed over in their work.

As you'd expect from the name of the company, the work produced is usually very visual for people visiting the work. I noticed that there was fair amount of projects that experimented with light which I really found interesting.

VOLUME

VOLUME was one I came across and really enjoyed the idea of the whole piece of work. The UVA had created a field of 48 luminous columns which responded to movement. This meant that each visitor could create a unique and different experience as they weaved in and out of different columns. The columns also emitted music to add to the path created, which I thought gave the work another dimension to it, as it was not just experimenting with sight, but also sound, for the visitors.

http://www.uva.co.uk/work/volume#/10

ORIGIN was another piece of work that involved sculpture and light together, which in my opinion, looked outstanding in the middle of New York City. The idea of the piece was a response meant to explore our societies acceptance of a technocratic life form. The fierce changes in LED lighting, that zips around the 3D cube, was created to both disrupt and reflect the city of New York. I like the idea that it's there for visitors to explore and reflect on their own opinions, as each experience will be different for each visitor who enters inside it.

http://www.uva.co.uk/work/origin-3#/0

ORIGIN

SPEED OF LIGHT

 SPEED OF LIGHT was comissioned by Virgin Media to celebrate 10 years of Internet broadband. This piece of work, which was done in London in 2010, is based on an idea that speed is light and light is data. The fast, colourful lasers that create sculptures and shapes throughout the building are an obvious representation of the internet data that has been growing for some years. I find this a very impressive project that would excite and entertain if I were a visitor, and it feel it is a great celebration of how far the Internet and broadband has come.

http://www.uva.co.uk/work/speed-of-light#/0

RHCP

The RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS stage design was also made by the UVA, which I was not aware of until now. I saw the band on stage with this design and I felt that the visuals were outstanding and complemented the music on stage. The constant movement of the octagonal video screen, that splits and swivels round made the set more exciting than other gigs I have been to.

http://www.uva.co.uk/work/rhcp#/0  

I really like the experimentation of light within the UVA's work. I feel that the way they try to make everyone's experience unique in all of these pieces of work is what makes them stand out from other companies. I am a lover of music and lighting at gigs/festivals, so I really did enjoy watching some of the videos on the links that involved the two.