Currently filling London’s Barbican Curve Gallery with mist and 12 swinging pendulums, artist collective United Visual Artists (UVA) are bringing a very different show to Eastbourne.

Vanishing Point combines the central principle of perspective – as used by landscape artists for centuries – with cutting-edge digital technology.

The second floor gallery space in Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery will be plunged into darkness to allow ever-changing laser projections to apparently alter the dimensions of the room.

The projected lines have been inspired by the sketches of Leonardo Da Vinci and Albrecht Durer, following Leon Battista Alberti’s definition of the canvas as a window, with everything behind it as pictoral space.

“Our use of perspective is in essence a pure comment on, or rather an interpretation of, Alberti’s window,” says Matthew Clark from the collective.

“Through projection planes this pictoral space intersects with the real space.”

The installation is driven by an algorithm which means the lines are generated by chance, although there is a choreography which means that, according to co-creator Tiemen Rapati, it “sways between stable and fragmented over the course of 35 minutes”.

For exhibitions curator Sanna Moore, this free installation is a departure for the Towner.

“We have worked with digital artists before,” she says. “But UVA’s practices are at the cutting-edge of what they do. They are working with light in a purely digital way to create this installation. We want the audience to be part of it and immerse themselves in the work.”

Moore first came across the 12-strong collective in London when they created an intervention at the Serpentine Gallery’s 2013 temporary summer pavilion.

The London-based collective simulated an “electrical storm” at the so-called Cloud Pavilion created by artist Sou Fujimoto – sending what looked like electrical arcs across the lattice-work structure.

“It was an impressive piece of lighting on the architectural structure,” says Moore. “I started to look at their website to see the different projects they had done – I didn’t know if they had a history of doing gallery shows.”

When she saw Vanishing Point, which the collective premiered at Berlin’s OMD-Olympus Photography Playground exhibition last year, she knew it would be perfect for the Towner’s exhibition space.

“They were interested in looking back at that piece of work,” says Moore. “They wanted to develop the technology and extend it.”

In addition to the installation, which will take over more than half of the gallery, there will be five digital prints interpreting the idea of a vanishing point, and an ever-changing generative painting which will never be the same twice.

The timing means UVA will be at both the Towner and the Barbican at the same time, where their free installation Momentum has received critical acclaim.

Momentum was commissioned specifically for the Curve space, with Clark saying, “The ultimate aim was to create something that seemed effortless. It wasn’t about using lots of technology. It’s about the way objects move in the space and how that makes you feel.”

“It’s quite interesting to compare the shows,” says Moore. “They both work with light but in very different ways.”