Hi, I'm Alexandros and I would like to welcome you to the United Visual Artists Studio. We are an art design practice based in London that brings together many disciplines. Right now we're working on the project with Mini. It's called Parallels and it will be exhibited in Milan's London Mobile. Parallels is a light and sound experience, interpretation of how technology created an extended world around us that we can reach at any given moment. When working with Mini, we start discussing about this theme, or how this relationship between human and machine developed over the years. The interface that works between humans and computers changed a lot and that something that will develop even further, they will understand us as much as we're trying to understand them. The installation consists of a series of reflective rings made of 100 kilos of stainless steel. On those rings we project light through a scanner. As the light bounces it creates a cylinder of light. Its cylinder is 1.5 meters in diameter and actually it extends over at least 12 meters in the space. The light scanners that we're using, they throw really sharp beams. Any kind of deviation on the surface of this ring could cause an enormous deformation of the cylinder. That's why we had to be super precise of how we're going to build them. The way we did it is that we got a really huge length and we milled the surface into a precision which is less than a millimeter. And then we polished them for two days per ring in order to create this perfectly reflective surface. I think a relationship between technology and design will evolve in a much more dynamic way from now on programming techniques or rapid prototyping techniques which are now becoming really really accessible. You see more and more designers using those methods and that will become a lot easier. The interface between creating something and having the idea will become a much more flexible environment and environment that the designer or the artist himself will be able to manipulate a lot more.