ABOUT UMA

  • UMA is a global collective of media artists working at the intersection of analogue legacy and digital innovation.​ 
  • Inevitably we have to ask ourselves about what Art is -about what an artist is, and what they do at this particular moment in human history.
  • Asking these questions of ourselves, often after long working lives of creating art,  means we must re-invent ourselves
  • In so doing we intend our future work to defy categories because we will work together through our differences - not in spite of them. 
  • We will then challenge conventions and define the future of durational art.
  • While the world chases speed and spectacle, we will remain rooted in authenticity, depth, and daring.​​​​

  • What will make UMA compelling is precisely its inchoate nature — a gathering of artists shaped by different eras of media, not bound by a single origin story but connected by how we continue to adapt, reflect, and experiment
  • Each of us brings a unique artistic fingerprint—formed by the friction of tradition and technology, sharpened by our refusal to follow trends or dilute our voices.​​
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Practitioners of Art within an Evolving Technological Landscape
United Media Artists are a founding group of artists who bridged the analog-to-digital transition — a passage that shapes a singular creative perspective.  We began our creative works in the analogue era and have carried on throughout the digital era, maintaining successful practices throughout these transitions. We have fought to retain our creative explorations in a new technology driven environment. 

As UMA evolves, it welcomes new generations of digital-native artists into this ongoing dialogue. Like us, emerging artists will maintain a grasp of constructing their art through a series of transformations in our core media. Changes in techniques may come and go, just as value comes and goes in the markets, but we will continue to make sure that our work will remain consistently compelling, impactful, committed and dedicated to the cause of art.

In our future creations we shall honour our diversity in a unified way to forge new directions, utilising our multiformity and global locations as a force that supports, challenges, and invigorates UMA, whilst celebrating our individual creativities to effect the development of art in the 21st century.