United Visual Artists (UVA) is a London-based art and design collective whose practice spans permanent architectural installations, live performance and interactive art installations. R&D is core to their process, enabling them to constantly explore new fields
as well as re-examine more established ones. UVA’s work is about social experience, turning the audience into active participants. Collaborations with architects: OMA, Wilkinson Eyre; and in the music world with: Arctic Monkeys, Basement Jaxx, Massive Attack and U2, MTV Europe. In 2008 they were shortlisted for the Darwin bicentenary Commission at the Natural History Museum, London, and in the same year, they were invited to be part of Meltdown curated by Massive Attack. 

“Frozen In Time is a window into the delicate and ephemeral moment of a glistening representation of the iconic WWF mascot. Frozen over a period of one week, the life-sized panda is representative of our lack of understanding of the world we inhabit. Once frozen, the panda was allowed to melt within our studio over what we considered to be a correct amount of time. Yet the ice melted faster than predicted and once this image was created the piece slipped, fell and smashed into thousands of shards of ice, which melted and flooded our studio. This single image remains, the only record of its existence.” - United Visual Artists