United Visual Artists (UVA) is a London-based art and design practice creating large-scale light-based installations. Fusing ideas and concepts in the fast-moving world of video and visual art UVA amalgamate science and art to produce emotional responses in live situations, be it a concert, club or presentation.
They have worked on live tours for artists to include Massive Attack's 100th Window tour, where they created a huge central on-stage LED screen streaming with data, run live throughout the performances, and updated in real time each day to reflect the local culture, geography and environment. A complete contrast is the high energy video images and graphics for Basement Jaxx’s Kish Kash tour.
Just as the experience of music is transformed by the presence of thousands of people in a concert hall, their work aims to create a powerful social experience, turning the audience into active participants.
More recently UVA were commissioned to celebrate the re-opening of the Howard Assembly Room with Chorus (2009) an array of motor-assisted pendulums, suspended swinging through space emitting light and sound and producing a hypnotic and seductive performance.
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