This spring, an immersive, light-based art installation commissioned by Virgin Media to celebrate 10 years of broadband in the UK will open to the public on London’s South Bank.
Created by UK art and design practice United Visual Artists ‘Speed of Light’ explores the themes of communication and modernity. The responsive work puts the public firmly at the heart of the experience, with a series of experimental light works flowing through the labyrinthine spaces of the Bargehouse, a four-storey industrial space situated on the South Bank.
The installation will be located at the Barge house, Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street, Southbank, London, SE1 9PH. From 9 – 19 April (online preview from 31 March) open to the public Mon-Sunday- 11:00am - 7.00pm (last entry 6:30pm). Cost: FREE
About ‘Speed of Light’
‘Speed of Light’ is a series of installations that invoke in the viewer a sense of the “magic” involved in fibre optic communication. Stripped back to its materials, fibre optic is a thin strand of glass, with nothing more than a flickering beam of light. UVA have used this beam as the starting point for their work. The installations dramatize the experience of using fibre-optic communication, re-imagining it as an immersive environment.
[Photographs by Tom Oldham]
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