Intro to Interactive Media ArtsAssessment Task 1

by Yulia Besplemennova 3406397

VOLUMEby United Visual Artists

Established in 2003, United Visual Artists are an art and design practice based in London. UVA produce work at the inter-section of sculpture, architecture, live per-formance, moving image and digital instal-lation.

Successful both in the design practices with cli-ents’ commisions and own artworks and installations

Explore the spatial and tem-poral relationships between site, work and audience

Work in the public spaces

Long-lasting collaborations with the musical collectives brought the sound to all the installations, adding the syn-esthetic experience of the environments UVA

London/Hong Kong/Taiwan/ Melbourne/St Petersburg2010

consists of a field of 48 luminous, sound-emitting columns that respond to movement. Visitors weave

a path through the sculpture, creating their own unique journey in light and music.The result of a collaboration with Massive Attack, Volume won theD&AD Yellow Pencilin 2007 for Outstanding Achievement in the Digital Installation category.

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Audience influences the in-stallation but the reaction is not direct, artwork has it’s own “behaviour”

Both subjective and intersub-jective. Collective actions in-fluence the environment, bringing shared experience

“When engaging with the work there is a prevailing sense of there being an inter-dependent relationship be-tween individual presence and the emergent quality of the system”

They create a special “atmo-sphere” inviting people to ex-plore the built relationship with the environment and each other.

http://vimeo.com/15260133

Monolith, John Madejski garden at the V&A museum in 2006

Triptych was designed for the Nuit Blanche art

event in Paris, 2007

Volume, London’s V&A museum in 2006, Hong Kong, Taiwan, St. Pe-

tersburg and Melbourne

Origin, part of The Cre-ators Project, New York,

2011

Monolith, John Madejski garden at the V&A museum in 2006

Triptych was designed for the Nuit Blanche art

event in Paris, 2007

Mark Rothko’scolour studies

James Turrell’s light studies

Jim Campbell’s “Public Art”

Volume, London’s V&A museum in 2006, Hong Kong, Taiwan, St. Pe-

tersburg and Melbourne

Origin, part of The Cre-ators Project, New York,

2011

Roots of UVA’s works could be found in the studies of other modern artist both “traditional” and “digital”. Installations’ minimalistic appearance actually hides advanced hardware technology and complex interactive software

Mobile Interactions

Brings people to “play” to-gether

Explores the social landscape of the environment

Expands the virtual and digital dimensions to the real physi-cal environment

As part of a commission for the audiovisual festival CROMAfest, Mexico-based interactive agency Hotpixel created a digital sculpture by visualizing tweets with the hashtag #CROMAfest. When users send a tweet, their avatar tumbles into view on the screen, which in turn generates a unique sound. The users can then fur-ther interact with the sculpture by changing the background color of the piece, which is done by tweeting hashtag then a color

http://vimeo.com/38413062

Peptone at Place des ArtsNuit Blanche Montréal, February 26 2011

Produced by Departement

Boom Benchby Michael Schoner of NL Architects,

Netherlands

Expands the virtual and digital dimensions to the real physical environment

Brings people to “play” together

http://vimeo.com/21046519 http://vimeo.com/1976994

References:1. “Anxious Atmospheres, and the Transdisciplinary Practice of United Visual Artists” Vince Dziekan, The Fibreculture Journal, issue 18 2011: Trans

2. “The code breakers: United Visual Artists see the beauty in binary. Their fusion of art and science creates some genuinely unique work.” Creative Review [0262- 1037] Sinclair, Mark yr:2004 vol:24 iss:3 pg:50

3. “PROFILE: United Visual Artists.” Design week [0950-3676] yr:2008 pg:13

4. www.uva.co.uk

5. http://www.creativeapplications.net/

6. http://thecreatorsproject.com/

7. http://vimeo.com/