Inspired by punk’s association with metal adornments Hess built a garment entirely from studs, pins and chains. Hundreds of magnets were glued on to dancer Eric Underwood, attracting over 80 kilograms of steel bits like instant metal embroidery.
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A body, suspended from a robotic harness, plunges into the liquid. A crust of wax crystallises around its curves and folds, growing architectural forms, layer by layer, like a 3d printer drawing directly onto the skin.
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Laid across the physical city is a virtual doppelganger, a ghost landscape of hyperlinks, geo tags, digital maps and satellite scans. The air is thick, charged with bits, bytes, electrons and energy fields.
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Shiny latex and an endless grid of tubes transform the human into a mutant. The Mutant embodies the everchanging boundaries between the digital and physical world.
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Now That You’ve Died invites guests to question their expectations of story-telling whilst experiencing a unique sensory experience without using their vision. The use of sound to create an immersive narrative ensures that the performance is genuinely inclusive and enlightening.
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Soundform is an exploration into the relationship between sound and 3 dimensional shape through the medium of laser. The piece exists as both a 20 minute performance and an installation.
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Matter is a time-based digital sculpture; a celebration of matter itself, the substance of all physical things. It describes a continuous dynamic articulation of a solid, pure block of matter, from the simplest primitive forms to the highest details of geometric complexities, and vice versa… from the unpredictable grace of geological processes to the perfection, beauty and precision of man made crafts.
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Forms is a series of studies on human motion, and its reverberations through space and time.
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Strata #4 is a multi-channel immersive video-installation commissioned by Palais de Beaux Arts in Lille. The subject of this work is a series of iconic pieces from the museum’s Flemish collection, focusing specifically on Rubens’ and Van Dyck’s grand altarpieces.
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UVA were invited as first artists in residence at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris. Exploring the unexamined assumption that digital technology is moving towards utopia, UVA created a visitor experience simultaneously celebrating and critiquing the brave new world of the digital.
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