{"id":3629,"date":"2012-12-14T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:47:56","slug":"constellation-covent-garden-winter-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=3629","title":{"rendered":"Constellation &#8211; Covent Garden Winter Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/06_2009\/United_Visual_Artists\/uva_coventgarden.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/\/uva_coventgarden.jpg\" alt=\"uva_coventgarden\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/06_2009\/United_Visual_Artists\/uva_coventgarden.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Constellation (2008, 17MB, 3 min.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Commissioned by Covent Garden,  United Visual Artists lit up the market<br \/>\nhalls of Covent Garden with a responsive light installation. Launched as<br \/>\nthe flagship piece of the winter season program at Covent Garden the<br \/>\ninstallation featured 600 custom-designed mirrored LED tubes hanging<br \/>\nabove the entire Covent Garden market space.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>The volumetric arrangement of the tubes created a canvas in which three<br \/>\ndimensional light formations were made possible. Constellation was also<br \/>\nindividually controllable using a custom-designed control panel, giving the<br \/>\ninstallation an intimate connection with the public.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uva.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Visual Artists<\/a> are a British-based collective whose current practice spans permanent architectural installation, live performance and responsive installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constellation (2008, 17MB, 3 min.) &#8220;Commissioned by Covent Garden, United Visual Artists lit up the market halls of Covent Garden with a responsive light installation. Launched as the flagship piece of the winter season program at Covent Garden the installation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=3629\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,1,17,33,52,26,51,112,59,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-arts","category-community","category-conceptual","category-design","category-documentary-arts","category-installation","category-light","category-newmediaart","category-serial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11401,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/11401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}