{"id":243,"date":"2008-10-24T21:22:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T03:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=243"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:20:09","slug":"screening-october-30th-6pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/10\/24\/screening-october-30th-6pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Semiconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, October 30, 6pm<\/strong> | Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt in person!<\/p>\n<address>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/semiconductor450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1451\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/semiconductor450.jpg\" alt=\"Semiconductor, Magnetic Movie (2007). Image courtesy of the artists.\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Semiconductor, Magnetic Movie (2007). Image courtesy of the artists.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/address>\n<p>UK artist-duo Semiconductor\u2019s stunning digital animations render our physical world in a constant state of flux. Since 1999, Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt have used digital technologies to create what\u00a0<em>The Wire<\/em><span> calls \u201cexperimental meta-science fiction\u201d to meditate on the hidden processes around us\u2014sound waves, magnetic fields, tectonic plates, and micro-environments. The pair began their career in the UK electronic music scene, and their work has continued to straddle science, music, and high art, with music videos for M\u00fam and Dat Politics, installations at the Hirshhorn and the Venice Biennale, and a residency at NASA\u2019s Space Sciences Laboratory. Tonight\u2019s program surveys their career, including the giddily gorgeous glitch of<em> A-Z of Noise<\/em> <\/span><span>(1999) and<em> 200 Nanowebbers<\/em><\/span><span> (2005), the elegant urbanscapes of <em>The Sound of Microclimates<\/em><\/span><span> (2004), and an astonishing trip into the data archives of solar astronomy in <em>Brilliant Noise<\/em><\/span><span> (2006). Also featured are <em>Magnetic Movie<\/em><\/span><span> (2007), <em>Do You Think Science&#8230;<\/em>(<span>2006), <em>All the Time in the World<\/em><\/span><span> (2005), <em>Green Grass of Tunnel <\/em><\/span><span>(2002), and <em>Retropolis<\/em><\/span><span> (1999).<\/span><strong> <\/strong>1999\u20142007, Semiconductor, UK, multiple formats, ca 60 min.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span><strong>Semiconductor<\/strong><\/span><span> was founded by UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt in 1997. Their work has been exhibited extensively, from Tate Britain and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London to the San Francisco Film Festival, MUTEK Montreal and the Venice Biennale.\u2028\u2028\u00a0Recent fellowships and residencies have supported site-specific work, including research and experimentation at the NASA&#8217;s Space Sciences Laboratory UC Berkeley, California.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>More<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.semiconductorfilms.com\/\">Semiconductor Films<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 30, 6pm | Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt in person! Semiconductor, Magnetic Movie (2007). Image courtesy of the artists. UK artist-duo Semiconductor\u2019s stunning digital animations render our physical world in a constant state of flux. Since 1999, Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt have used digital technologies to create what\u00a0The Wire calls \u201cexperimental meta-science [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/10\/24\/screening-october-30th-6pm\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Semiconductor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[70,206,441],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-13","tag-animation","tag-europe","tag-new-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/8733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}