Semiconductor: Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt
Selected C.V since 2005
Founded in 1997 www.semiconductorfilms.com
All works distributed by The Lux + selected works with Video Data Bank, Chicago + Montevideo, Amsterdam

Solo Exhibitions
Magnetic Movie, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington USA
Semiconductor, Gare St Lazare, Nuit Blanche Paris
Heliocentric, NGCA, Sunderland, UK
Brilliant Noise, SFEMF, Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco, USA
Out of the Light, The Cube, Paris
Brilliant Noise, Arnolfini + Watershed Bristol, Fabrica Brighton + Sightsonic York
Sound Films, ICA Digital Suite, London
Magnetic Movie, Screening Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
All the Time in the World, Berwick Gymnasium Art Gallery, UK
Domestic E.M.I. Spatial, The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Solo screenings
Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
The British Council, Jerusalem, Israel
Dissonanze Festival, Rome
Borderline, Beijing, China
La Rochelle Film Festival, France
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
The Lux Open, Royal College Of Art, London
Animac, Lleida International Animated Film Festival, Spain

Performances
Mutek Festival, Montreal, Canada
Futuresonic Festival, Manchester, UK
Avanto Media Festival, Helsinki, Finland
Optronica, British Film Institute, London
La Rochelle International Film Festival, France
Aurora, Norwich Animation Festival, UK
Volksbuhne, Berlin, Germany
Sonic Arts Expo, Plymouth, UK
Incunabula: International Festival of image, theatre, dance music and computer art, Cesena, Italy
Late at the Tate, Tate Britain, London

Group Exhibitions
Earth: Art of a changing world, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Figuring Landscapes, Touring Exhibition UK
Residents, Espace Electra, Paris
Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague
Spectropia, Riga, Latvia
Philip, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
(in)visible sounds, Montevideo, Netherlands Institute for Media Art, Amsterdam
Absolut Generations, Venice Biennale, Italy [working with Richard Wentworth]
Almost Cinema, International Film Festival of Flanders/Ghent, Belgium
Outsiders, Le Maison Europeene De La Photographie, Paris
Double Acts Exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, UK
Platform #1: Semiconductor and Son:Da CareOf Gallery, Milan
Volume 3 exhibition, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Abstraction Now, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Screenland, Whitstable Biennale of Contemporary Visual Art
Spool 2, Consortium Gallery, Amsterdam
Harmonic Light, The New York Digital Salon
Land of the Lilliputian, Exploratorium, San Francisco
Blink Animation Exhibition, Gasworks, London
A Beautiful South, Millais Gallery, Southampton
Berwick Film and Media Festival, Berwick Upon Tweed
Lightsilver, Beaconsfield, London
Inhabituel, Dena Foundation, Milan, Italy
Ruido Digital: Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Group screenings
Los Angeles Film Festival, USA
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Holland
Prix Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Austria
24th Hamburg Short Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Annecy International Animated Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival, USA
Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, France
European Media Art Festival + EMAF touring programme, Osnabruck, Germany
Sydney Film Festival, Australia
Transmediale Festival, Berlin
Lovebytes Festival, Sheffield, UK
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, Wroclaw, Poland
A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain, B.F.I., London
White Noise, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
Space Soon, The Arts Catalyst, Roundhouse London
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film
CNES National Centre of Space studies, France
Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee Centre of Contemporary Art
25 FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Champ Libre:7e Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Electronique, Montréal, Canada
Britspotting: Berlin, Stuttgart and Zurich
Siggraph, LA, USA
Encounters 12th Annual Short Film Festival, Watershed, Bristol

Residencies/Fellowships
Smithsonian Artists Research Fellowship 2010
Gulbenkian Galapagos Artist Fellowship 2010
ACE International Fellowship: Art and Space Science at UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab 2005/06
Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship: ACE North East and English Heritage 2004/05
Couvent des Récollets Residency, Paris: The City Hall of Paris and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2004

Commissions/ Awards/Collections
AV Festival and Northen Lightsa Film Festival co-commission. 2009/10
Awarded the Nature Scientific Merit award for Magnetic Movie at Imagine Science Film Festival, New York 2009
ACE Lottery Award for production of new work. 2009-10
Animasivo, 25th Festival of Mexico, Mexico City commission 2009
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, purchase of Magnetic Movie for permanent collection 2008
Centre Pompidou Collection, Paris, purchase of Brilliant Noise 2008
British Animation Awards, London. Awarded Best Film at the Cutting Edge 2008
Awarded 2nd Prize at Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema, Coruna Spain 2008
Special Mention Best International Experimental Short, Leeds International Film Festival 2008
Awarded Best Video for Brilliant Noise at Experimental Film & Video Festival, Seoul, Korea 2007
Prize winners at Onion City for Brilliant Noise, Chicago Film Festival 2006
Prize winners at Netmage Live Media Festival, Bologna, Italy 2002
Careof Gallery, Milan, commission 2008
Arcadi, Paris commission 2008
Lovebytes commission 2007
An Animate Projects commission for Channel 4 in association with Arts Council England 2007
ACE touring exhibition funding 2007
Arena Commission, ACE, Permanent DVD installation in the Arts Council South-East Offices 2006
Prague Contemporary Art Festival commission for site specific work 2006

Presentations / Lectures
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC USA
Mentors for Film London, One to One Programme
Multiple panels for art commissions and awards.
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
Optronica, BFI, London
Space Soon, The Roundhouse, London
NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, USA
ICA, London
San Francisco Art Institute, SF, USA
Mixing with the Stars, Dana Centre, Science Museum, London
Diffraction Conference, Fact, Liverpool
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley USA
Multiple university and college lectures

Selected linkable Articles/Reviews
Vertigo Magazine - Worlds in Flux review
The Wire - Worlds in Flux Review
Neural.it - Worlds in Flux review
Kultureflash - Worlds in Flux Review
Popmatters - Worlds in Flux review

Publications
Animation in Process, Andrew Selby, Laurence King Publishing
Processing, Casey Reas, MIT Press
Animation: an interdisciplinary journal, Sage
Berwick Gymnasium Fellowships, English Heritage and Art Editions North
Fabrica Gallery, Brighton
The Anthology of Computer Art, Sonic Acts DVD released with The Wire

Broadcast
Animate TV, Channel 4 2007/08
Culture Show, interview and screening 2008
BBC Wonders of the Solar System 2010