I have visited this last weekend an immersive experience at 180 Studios, a well known exhibition space in London, which usually commissions audiovisual installations with works of renowned artists from all around the world featuring great works in contemporary and new media art. On this event the show has been created by United Visual Artists “UVA”, a London-based collective which focuses on the integration of new technologies with traditional media, having collaborated with at other sites like Printworks or VA Museum.
I really enjoyed this show, it was a perfect combination of visuals and lights and the sound design was just incredible. It perfectly merged together the engineering work with the most artistic approach and the result was an uplifting immersive experience where although it was formed of eight large installation I was able to stay fort about two hours, discovering the full length of the audio and movement patterns and enjoying different points of view of the pieces, due of their large scale. Maybe I missed a bit more of variety of elements or interactivity with the pieces would have been great and the installation motifs were a bit linear with the use of lights and led in all of them. Anyway, really inspiring visit to analyse from a Sound Art perspective; 180 Studios is a great gallery that never disappoints and where I also visited Electroshock, a couple of years ago, another amazing show that really gained my attention into these kind of practices.
This exhibition has made a bunch of questions to arise within my research, ‘the importance of the technology on immersive art’, ‘the coding or programming used for these installations (If there is any)’ and the computer used for this; what kind of computer is it? Where is it hidden?. All these subjects are helping me to find the direction of my research, and I think that the technology used on these kind of installations is a really important issue in contemporary Sound Art.