Exhibiting Brilliant Noise as part of From Amber to the Stars, alongside M.K. Čiurlionis: Now and Then, 20 March – 12 October 2025, at the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania. (Photo: Shaun Waugh)
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CERN Art and Science Summit 2025
The View from Nowhere screening at the CERN Art and Science Summit 2025, CERN Science Gateway, Geneva, Switzerland, 5 February 2025.
In Conversation with Professor Sarah Cook
SYMPTOMATICA | HORIZON, Beijing
Exhibiting as part of SYMPTOMATICA | HORIZON, at 798CUBE, Beijing, 11 January – 30 April 2025, curated by VESTIGE (Jungyeon Park, Menger Chu and Yunchul Kim).
Brilliant Noise screening at The Gene Siskel Film Center
Brilliant Noise (2006) screening as part of Video Data Bank (VDB) Presents: Roundabout Featuring Light Cone, Thursday 12 December, 6.00pm at The Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago.
Black Air, Casino Luxembourg, new commission and group exhibition
Exhibiting as part of group exhibition Black Air, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain. Curated by Amelia Licavoli (photo by Andrés Lejona).
LA FilmForum, Experimentations 3: Between Land and Sky
LA FilmForum’s Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film screening Brilliant Noise as part of film programme Experimentations 3: Between Land and Sky, Accounting for the In-Between. Part of the Getty Foundation Initiative PST: Art & Science Collide! 19 September, 7:30pm, at the Eagle Theatre at Vidiots.
Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art, group exhibition
Semiconductor exhibit Spectral Constellations at PST ART: Art & Science Collide as part of the Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art exhibition at Artcenter College of Design, Pasadena, California. Curated by Stephen Nowlin. The exhibition runs 20 September 2024 – 15 February 2025.
UMWELT at Fondazione Modena Arti Visive
UMWELT, curated by Marco Mancuso, at Fondazione Modena Arti Visive – Palazzo Santa Margherita, Modena, Italy, from 13 September 2024 to 12 January 2025, Semiconductor with Forensic Architecture, CROSSLUCID, James Bridle, Entangled Others, Robertina Sjebianic, Anna Ridler, Eryk Salvaggio. (image: opening UMWELT, 13.09.2024, curated by Marco Mancuso, Palazzo S. Margherita, Fondazione AGO, Modena(IT), photo ©D.Sabattini)
Pulse of the Hinterland – The 4th Xinjiang International Arts Biennial
20Hz showing as part of Pulse of the Hinterland – Digital Station, at The 4th Xinjiang International Art Biennial, China. 28 July – 15 October 2024. Curated by Diane Xing.
Cosmos Archeology, group exhibition
Exhibiting as part of group exhibition Cosmos Archeology, Exploring the Universe through Art & Science, Shanghai Astronomy Museum, China, 18 May – 17 November 2024 (exhibition extended). Co-curated by Sarah Kenderdine from the EPFL Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) and EPFL Pavilions, Jean-Paul Kneib from EPFL’s Laboratory of Astrophysics (LASTRO), and independent curator Iris Long.
CERN Art Science Summit 2024 – talk online
Unveiling the Universe: CERN Art and Science Summit talk by Semiconductor and panel discussion available to view online here.
The talk was streamed live on 30 January 2024.
Spectral Constellations acquired by VU ART Collection, Vrije University Amsterdam
Following its inclusion in Creating the Commons at the VU Art Science Gallery, Amsterdam, Spectral Constellationshas been acquired for the VU Art Collection – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The artwork will be permanently installed in a new Vrije University Research Building, housing the departments of Astronomy, Physics, Neurosciences, Earth Sciences and Human Health & Life Sciences.
Black Rain at IFFR
Black Rain (2009) showing at International Film Festival Rotterdam, as part of the DINAMO: Disinformation programme, Saturday 27th January 2024, more information about the film screening here: iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/black-rain.
CERN Art and Science Summit
Semiconductor at CERN Art and Science Summit, part of a season commemorating CERN’s 70th anniversary, 30 January 2024. The event is free to attend, register here: arts.cern/article/unveiling-universe-art-and-science-summit-70-years-discoveries-cern.
MANIFEST: Art and Policy exhibition Bloc Projects
Group exhibition of the works created through the Policy LAB: MANIFEST project, for which artists were placed within government policy teams, curated and produced by SRG Bennett, co-head of Policy Lab, a team in the Civil Service. Also features works by Christopher Samuel and Dryden Goodwin. At Bloc Projects, Sheffield, 30 November – 16 December 2023.
Sensing the Forest seminar series
Semiconductor talk as part of the AHRC Sensing the Forest project’s fortnightly online seminar series with experts related to artistic, social and scientific interventions in the forest or other natural landscapes with a special focus on acoustic phenomena. The seminar series includes talks by Semiconductor, Peter Sinclair, Saloni Shah, Jones/Bulley, Liz O’Brien and Alice Eldridge. Wednesday 18 October, 15:00 – 16:30 UK time, free and online, bookings via eventbrite. More info here: sensingtheforest.github.io/seminars/
Art Science Dialogue VU Gallery
Semiconductor in conversation with Cooperation Databank, at VU Gallery Amsterdam, on projects that open up and recycle knowledge, creating greater transparency in research. Thursday 12 October, 10 am – 12 pm CET online or at VU Art Science Gallery Amsterdam (free), more info here: https://www.artsciencegallery.nl/event/art-science-dialogue-semiconductor-cooperation-databank/.
Measure at New Media Gallery, Vancouver
Heliocentric exhibited as part of ‘Measure’ at New Media Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. The exhibition asks the question: how do we measure and track the movements of our world through space and time? The exhibition runs from 24th September – 10th December 2023.
Dark Matters, Science Gallery Melbourne
The View from Nowhere exhibited as part of Dark Matters, Science Gallery Melbourne, 5 August – 2 December 2023. Co-curated by Mónica Bello, Head of Arts at CERN and Tilly Boleyn, Head of Curatorial at Science Gallery Melbourne in collaboration with a curatorial panel of young people. In collaboration with Arts at CERN.
Solo exhibition Braga
Solo exhibition ‘Parting the Waves’ at Gnration, Braga, Portugal, 27 May – 19 August 2023. Including a masterclass with Semiconductor 27 May 2023.
Creating the Commons
Group exhibition Creating the Commons at VU Art Science Gallery, 11 May – 31 October 2023
Solo exhibition Upper Bavaria
Semiconductor solo exhibition, Schafhof – European Art Forum Upper Bavaria, 22 April and 25 June, 2023.
Visualiser le Son
20 Hz exhibited as part of group show Visualiser le Son at Lavoir Numerique, Gentilly, France, March 10th to August 13th, 2023.
Celestial Objects: Cosmos and Cinema
Black Rain and Brilliant Noise screened as part of Celestial Objects: Cosmos and Cinema, a programme of films exploring how filmmakers have approached the appearance and mysteries of the universe since the origins of cinema. At Vilaseco, Spain, curated by Andrea Franco, 4th March and tbc June.
Spectral Constellations at IFFR
Spectral Constellations exhibited at International Film Festival Rotterdam, JOEY RAMONE Gallery, 27 January – 5 February 2023, as part of the Art Directions programme. Semiconductor talk event at the exhibition 5:30pm – 6:30pm CET, Friday 27 January, tickets available here.
Royal Holloway Analogue Modelling Lab
Residency at the Analogue Modelling lab, Royal Holloway University, extending research begun in 2016 when making Earthworks. The lab uses a technique of pressure and motion to simulate tectonic and seismic forces; reproducing the generation and evolution of landscapes over thousands of years. Working with the lab equipment Semiconductor will create a series of tests for new works exploring how we might model future geologies.
Movienight at ART MACHINES
20 Hz shown as part of ART MACHINES Movienight, an evening curated by Dutch Media Art pioneer Edwin van der Heide with works from the LIMA collection, Thursday, 8 December, 20:30 – 23:00, at De Havenloods, Utrecht, VOGELFREI. More info here.
MANIFEST residency
Residency with UK policy LAB, MANIFEST, a pilot initiative, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), to evaluate how artists might use their skills and experience to improve how we make policy.
Festival of Cultural Knowledge Exchange
Speaker at the inaugural National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange Festival of Cultural Knowledge Exchange which takes place from 10 – 14 October 2022. Talk available listen to on soundcloud here.
The Sound of Colour
Exhibiting as part of ‘ The Sound of Colour’ at Arthouse Jersey, 11th-29th October.
Unheimlich Fantastisch: E.T.A. Hoffmann 2022
Exhibiting as part of touring exhibition Unheimlich Fantastisch: E.T.A. Hoffmann 2022, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Hoffmann’s death 2022 at:
Ausstellungsräume Staatsbibliothek Bamberg: 25 July – 22 October 2022
Stabi Kulturwerk Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: 17 August – 02 November 2022
Deutsches Romantik-Museum Frankfurt am Main: 24 November 2022 – 12 February 2023 https://etahoffmann.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/etah2022/
Extreme Light Group Residency
Semiconductor artists-in-residence with the Extreme Light Group, University of Glasgow, School of Physics & Astronomy. Lead scientific partner: Prof. Daniele Faccio, residency curator: Sarah Cook.
CERN 10th Anniversary Podcast
Launch of the #ArtsatCERN10 Podcast in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Arts at CERN. For the podcast Semiconductor are in conversation with CERN theoretical physicist (and previous Semiconductor collaborator) John Ellis. The podcast explores the works which resulted from Semiconductor’s time at CERN – the large scale installation HALO and the film The View from Nowhere – the use of data as artistic material and the limits of scientific research.
Hosted by Ana Prendes, Communications and Content Producer at Arts at CERN.
Listen to the episode here: https://bit.ly/ArtsatCERNpodcast or via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts.
ROSA Magazine
Semiconductor interviewed for new Sussex-based magazine ROSA (Review of Sussex Arts). ROSA is a quarterly print magazine featuring Sussex arts, Sussex arts shows and Sussex artists, past and present.
Novartis Pavillon commission
Morphogenic Movements, a new Semiconductor commission for Novartis Pavillon zero energy media façade, Basel. Commissioned by Novartis. Curated by Sabine Himmelsbach, HEK Basel. Viewable on the building exterior for one year from May 2022 – April 2023.
Indivisible, New Media Gallery Vancouver
Through the AEgIS exhibited as part of the Indivisible group show, New Media Gallery, Vancouver.
Sónar Lisboa artist talk
Talk at Sónar Lisboa 2022 as part of the Sónar +D programme to coincide with the exhibition of Earthworks. Available to watch here.
Earthworks at Sónar Lisboa 2022
Earthworks exhibited at Sónar Lisboa 2022, returning to the festival 6 years after it premiered at the Barcelona edition in 2016.
Sound of Life
Semiconductor interviewed by Joe Muggs for Sound of Life magazine.
Wired Middle East
Semiconductor feature in Wired Middle East on Spectral Constellations, February 2022 issue
Digital Arts Exchange Forum, Jordan
Invited to speak at a 3-day online Digital Arts exchange forum created by Future Everything & the British Council, bringing together art professionals from the UK & Jordan to explore arts and digital practices, 21st February 2022
Royal Society of Edinburgh
We will be giving a presentation at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, 14th December 2021
Third Thursdays
20Hz shown as part of Third Thursdays, Brighton City centre film trail, 20th January 2022, in the window of Knoops at 42 Market Street (The Lanes). Curated by Videoclub.
Mills Observatory, Dundee
Spectral Constellations. Solo Show. Mills Observatory, Dundee.
Tolbooth
Semiconductor, Tolbooth Gallery, Stirling, Scotland. Solo show. Exhibiting Parting the Waves and Black Rain.
Nemo
Au-delà du réel ?, Nemo Festival, 104-Paris, France. Group show exhibiting, Earthworks, 20Hz and Where Shapes Come From.
Temporal Stack
Temporal Stack, The Deep Sensor, Research Centre of Contemporary Visual Art, Guizhou Normal University, Guizhou, China. Group show. Exhibiting As the World Turns.
Fredrikstad Animation Festival
Animated Science, Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway. Screening Magnetic Movie
DOK Leipzig 64th
DOK Leipzig, 64th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. Screening ‘The making of Earthworks‘.
to the edge of time
To the Edge of Time, University Library KU Leuven, Belgium. Group show exhibiting HALO 0.1 / 0.2 / 0.3.
JHG HALO
HALO exhibition presented by John Hansard Gallery at MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton, UK.
Bienal de la Ciencia
Bienal de la Ciencia, Cosmocaixa, Barcelona. Group Show exhibiting Through the AEgIS.
feedback musician netwrok
A ‘making of HALO’ presentation to the Feedback Musicianship Network.
The Art of Science
Semiconductor included in The Art of Science publication by
HALO Brighton Festival
HALO’s UK premiere at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA), University of Sussex, Brighton as part of Brighton Festival.
Leap then Look
We are excited to be collaborating with Leap Then Look, Lighthouse, University of Brighton and ACCA to present a programme of free online workshops and events to accompany the HALO exhibition.
In conversation with Laura McDermott (Fabrica)
In conversation with Laura McDermott from Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts for our Fabrica Earthworks exhibition, watch the full talk here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M9MEP6ZiYP4
Earthworks Fabrica
Solo exhibition at Fabrica, Brighton, 10 October – 22 November 2020 featuring Earthworks
Eco data – RIXC
Ecodata-Ecomedia-Ecoaesthetics, RIXC Art Science Festival 2020, Riga (Latvia), 8 October – 17 November 2020, The National Library of Latvia
Quantica Kumu Art Museum, Tallin, Estonia
Semiconductor are exhibiting The View from Nowhere as part of Quantica group show, Kumu Art Museum Tallinn, Estonia.
Riga Photography Festival
Exhibiting 20Hz as part of 6×6/36 at the Riga Photography Festival, Riga Art Space, 11 September – 18 October 2020
Quantica Le Lieu Unique
Semiconductor are exhibiting HALO 0.1, 0.2 + 0.3 as part of Quantica group show, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France.
Making of HALO on SOTSEF and JHG website
Making of HALO film featured as part of Southampton Science and Engineering Festival (SOTSEF) Goes Digital and also online as part of John Hansard Gallery’s digital programme in advance of John Hansard Gallery presenting HALO in 2021
HALO ACCA
UK premiere of HALO at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, as part of Brighton Festival, 2 – 6 May 2020 – Unfortunately this has been postponed due to coronavirus
Rewire Festival, The Hague
Fracture Patterns, our collaboration with Eartheater will be performed at Rewire Festival, The Hague.
SOTSEF
Semiconductor will be giving a public talk on their work at Southampton Science and Engineering Festival. Unfortunately this has been postponed due to the Coronavirus.
Quantica NTMoFA
Semiconductor are exhibiting The View from Nowhere as part of Quantica group show, NTMoFA (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts), Taichung, Taiwan.
Invisible, Science Galery Dublin
Semiconductor will be exhibiting in Invisible, Science Gallery Dublin, 13 March – 31 May 2020 [re-scheduled due to Coronavirus for July 2020, dates tbc]
Disto Logic, Theatre d’Orleans
A programme of works by Semiconductor will be screened as part of DISTO LOGIC at the Theâtre d’Orléans, Orléans, France, on 7 March
Quantica iMAL
Semiconductor are exhibiting The View from Nowhere as part of Quantica group show, iMAL, Brussels, Belgium.
London Short Film Festival
Magnetic Movie will be screened as part of the opening event of the London Short Film Festival, ICA, 6:30, Friday 10 Jan, 2020
Sola
Screening 20Hz, Black Rain, Magnetic Movie and All the Time in the World at SOLA, Helsinki, an annual festival for experimental music and moving image
Antony Gormley Panel
Semiconductor will take part in From Creativity to Cosmology: Understanding Space Through Art panel discussion, as part of Where Language Ends: Antony Gormley exhibition events series, Royal Academy of Arts, Chaired by John O’Shea Head of Programming Science Gallery London, £15/£19 Wednesday 27 November, 18.30 – 19.45
Desire Lines
Black Rain will be exhibited as part of Brighton Digital Festival exhibition Desire Lines, University of Brighton Edward St campus.
Semiconductor Talk Brighton Digital Festival
Semiconductor will be giving a public talk on their work as part of Brighton Digital Festival. University of Brighton City Campus – Edward St, Brighton, UK. 2:00pm – 3:30pm.
The 12th Imagine Science Film Festival
The View from Nowhere will be screened at The 12th Imagine Science Film Festival, New York.
InScience
The View From Nowhere has been selected to be screened at the fifth edition of InScience (international science film festival). The festival will take place from 6 to 10 November 2019, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Semiconductor CNAC
Semiconductor solo exhibition as part of the The 14th Media Art Biennale Santiago, Chile. Semiconductor at the National Center of Contemporary Arts, (CNAC), Santiago, Chile.
NeMaf 2019
The View from Nowhere will be screening at Seoul International New Media Festival 2019.
Macro Museum Rome
Semiconductor will be presenting two film works and giving a lecture at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome as part of their video art programme, July 2019
Science Gallery, Dark Matter
Semiconductor will be exhibiting at the Science Gallery London as part of the Dark Matter exhibition from 6 June to 26 August 2019
Ecstatic Truth
Semiconductor will be keynote speaker at Ecstatic Truth – Truth of Matter: process and perception in expanded animation practice alongside Dryden Goodwin, University of Westminster, May 16 2019
HALO edition acquired for private collection
Three HALO editions acquired for private collection.
City Gallery, Wellington
The Technological Sublime, Semiconductor solo show at City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
Broken Symmetries Le Lieu Unique
Semiconductor are exhibiting The View from Nowhere as part of Broken Symmetries group touring show, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes.
CCCB Broken Symmetries
Semiconductor are exhibiting The View from Nowhere as part of Quantica group show, CCCB, Barcelona.
Eartheater
UK touring performance Fracture Patterns in collaboration with Eartheater, commissioned by Outlands and De La Warr Pavillion, throughout June starting Thursday 13 June at the De La Warr Pavilion. For further dates and booking go to: www.outlands.network/fracture-patterns-eartheater-semiconductor
D’un soleil à l’autre
Three channel Brilliant Noise installed as part of the group show D’un soleil à l’autre at Base Sous-Marine, Bordeaux, France.
H2O 2019
Semiconductor participation in H2O (Human Horizons Observatory) Art and Science summit 2019, Patagonia, Argentina. In association with British Council and AND Festival UK.
2019 Art and Science President for the British Science Association
Semiconductor are the 2019 Art and Science President for the British Science Association. They are giving the presidential talk at the British Science Festival, Coventry, 12pm-1pm, Tuesday 10th September (free, booking required), the festival runs from 10 – 13 September 2019
Recombinant Festival
Earthworks installation at Recombinant Festival, San Francisco.
Broken Symmetries FACT
Semiconductor are exhibiting The View from Nowhere as part of Broken Symmetries group touring show, FACT, Liverpool.
Taiwan international
Where Shapes Come From exhibited at Hong-Gah Musuem, Taiwan as part of The 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2018.
Arttech forum
Semiconductor presentation at Arttech Forum, Geneva, Switzerland. With Monica Bello, Head of Arts at CERN.
Arica Nativa Film Festival
20Hz screening as part of Arica Nativa Film Festival, Chile.
MUSEUM FÜR KONKRETE KUNST
Black Rain exhibited as part of the group exhibition, Concerning the Spiritual in Art , Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany.
Strata: Rocks, Dust, Stars
Strata: Rocks, Dust, Stars, York Art Gallery in partnership with FACT. Group show exhibiting Worlds in the Making.
Animest
200 Nanowebbers screening at Animest, International Animation Festival, Bucharest, Romania.
The Nightingale Cinema, Chicago
20Hz screening at The Nightingale Cinema, Chicago
Jing’an Sculpture Park
Where Shapes Come From in group show Nature as Data at Jing’an International Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China. Semiconductor will be giving a presentation at OCAT Shanghai, Sunday 11th November 2pm.
CAS Osaka
Brilliant Noise and Black Rain exhibited in the group show The Astrologer that fell into a well, CAS, Osaka
Fort Process
Parting the Waves exhibited as part of Fort Process a sound & art festival exploring the acoustic spaces and topography of Newhaven Fort, 12-11pm.
Wellington screening and presentation
Semiconductor presentation and screening of recent works at Wellington City Art Gallery, New Zealand.
Kunstvereniging Diepenheim
Semiconductor exhibiting Where Shapes Come From in the group exhibition Hiding in plain sight at Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, The Netherlands.
ZKM
Black Rain exhibited as part of the group exhibition DIA-LOGO, Ramon Llull and the ars combinatoria, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
AB
Semiconductor HALO launch, the 4th Audemars Piguet Commission at Art Basel, created through their residency at CERN
FAC
Semiconductor, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, Australia. In partnership with Revelation, Perth International Film Festival. Solo show, Brilliant Noise and Black Rain. Semiconductor talk at FAC on Friday 13th July, 2018
Groundworks
Groundwork, organised by CAST, Cornwall. Group Show exhibiting As the World Turns.
Sydney Biennale
Semiconductor will be exhibiting two works at the 21st Biennale of Sydney in March 2018.
The View from Nowhere
The View from Nowhere, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France. Solo Show.
Touch Me Festival: The Invisible Around Us
Touch Me Festival: The Invisible Around Us, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Croatia. Group Show exhibiting Parting the Waves.
Kassel
Where Shapes Come From is screening at the 34th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival on Thursday 16th November at 2:00pm – the festival runs from 14th – 19th November 2017
Jihlava Film Festival
Where Shapes Come From will be screened at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, in the Czech Republic, 24th – 29th October 2017.
uppsala
Magnetic Movie will screen at The 36th Uppsala International Short Film Festival as part of their curated program Science Friction 23th – 29th October 2017
Antimatter
Where Shapes Come From is screening at the 20th annual Antimatter [Media Art], October 13 to 28, 2017 in Victoria, BC, Canada
Imagine Science
Where Shapes Come From will be screened at the 10th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival October 13th – 20th 2017
Touch Me Art & Science Fest
This October Semiconductor will be exhibiting Parting the Waves at the Touch Me Art and Science Festival, Zagreb, Croatia and presenting their work in person.
Feat Brussels
Semiconductor will be exhibiting with Future Emerging Art and Technology at BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels this September
British Science Festival
Semiconductor will be speaking alongside scientist Antonella de Santo and philospher Dr Beatrice Fazi as part of ‘Visions of the Large Hadron Collider’ a British Science Festival event hosted by Fabrica Gallery, Brighton on 5th September 2017
Atonal 2017
Semiconductor will be exhibiting Earthworks at Berlin’s Atonal Festival which takes place between 16th and 20th August 2017
National Theatre
Semiconductor will be giving a talk on their work at the National Theatre, London.
Labocine
Semiconductor will be featured in Imagine Science Labocine’s July Issue
Axiom, Tokyo
Semiconductor have a forthcoming solo show at Axiom in Tokyo, Japan, 1st July – 26th August 2017.
CENART, Mexico City
Semiconductor are exhibiting in the group show Infosphere at Centro National de las Artes (CENART) in Mexico City, 26th May – 3rd September 2017. Exhibiting Magnetic Movie and 20Hz.
Arts@CERN Mapping Festival
Semiconductor have been invited by Arts@CERN to give a presentation at the 1st International Forum on Digital Culture, which is part of Mapping Festival 2017, Geneva, 24th – 25th May 2017.
Prima Materia
Prima Materia, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam. Group show exhibiting Where Shapes Come From.
Fiber Festival 2017
Semiconductor will be going to Fiber Festival 2017, Amsterdam, where they will be giving a presentation and screening their work. The festival runs from 11th-14th May 2017.
Stuttgart festival screening
Where Shapes Come From will be screened at The 24th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film from 2nd to 7th May 2017.
Taiwan
No Such Thing As Gravity, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Group show exhibiting Worlds in the Making and Magnetic Movie.
FEAT
Semiconductor will be taking part in a forthcoming group show Future Emerging Art and Technology at LifeSpace, Science Art Research Gallery, Dundee, 13th April- 17th June 2017.
ArtScience Museum Singapore
Semiconductor will be exhibiting Black Rain as part of the group show The Universe and Art at ArtScience Museum, Singapore, 1st April – 30th July 2017.
Alpha-Ville
This March 20Hz will be screened at Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City as part of Digital Naturalism, a cycle of films by international artists.
Strangelove festival
20Hz will be screened at the Strangelove International Time Based Arts Festival, Folkstone, 9th – 24th March 2017, as part of Animotion, a programme of selected animated short films from 1926 to the present day
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
Semiconductor will be giving a presentation and screening their work at the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival in Hawick, Scotland. The festival runs from 2nd – 5th March 2017.
Rotterdam Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival, premiering single channel Where Shapes Come From. Semiconductor will attend the festival.
Phoenix Leicester
Where Shapes Come From, Phoenix, Leicester. Solo show of our two-channel moving image work Where Shapes Come From.
Akbank Sanat
Nonspaces, Akbank Sanat,Istanbul, Turkey. Group show exhibiting Catching the Light and Black Rain.
Experimental Motion
Experimental Motion, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, U.K. Group show exhibiting 20Hz.
The Scientific Method
The Scientific Method, The Tetley, Leeds, U.K. Group show exhibiting 20Hz.
MAAT
Our new two-channel moving image work Where Shapes Come From premieres at the Museum of Art Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, as part of the grand opening. Group Show featuring; Haroon Mirza, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Rioji Ikeda and Nuno da Luz.
http://recombinantfestival.com/
Recombinant Festival, San Francisco, U.S.A. Screening 10 channel Brilliant Noise.
Our Machines Brighton
Our Machines, University of Brighton. Group show exhibiting Band 9. Curated by Louise Colbourne.
The Weight of Things Glasgow Uni screening
The Weight of Things, Film Programme, The Glasgow School of Art Graduate Degree Show. Screening A – Z of Noise and Inaudible Cities.
Project Daejon
Project Daejon: Cosmos, Daejon Museum of Art, Korea. Exhibiting Black Rain and Magnetic Movie.
SónarPLANTA
Semiconductor have been awarded the SónarPLANTA 2016 commission. The multi-channel moving image work will premiere at Sónar Festival, Barcelona, June 2016. Previous commissions include Unidisplay by Carsten Nicolai and RGB|CMY Kinetic by Art+Com.
Mori Art Museum
The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Group show exhibiting Black Rain and multi-channel Brilliant Noise.
Colomboscope
Cinnamon Colomboscope 2016, Testing Grounds – Art and Digital Cultures in South Asia and Europe, Former General Post Office, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Group Show exhibiting Catching the Light.
Turner Contemporary Margate
Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK. Group show exhibiting 20Hz.
JIKJI
JIKJI, the Golden Seed, Grand Exhibition Gallery at Cheongju Arts Centre, South Korea. Group show exhibiting 20Hz + Magnetic Movie.
CCCB
The Thinking Machine, Ramon Llull and the Ars combinatorial, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain. Exhibiting Black Rain.
SidneyCooper
Catching the Light, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, UK . Exhibiting Band 9.
HamburgFilmFestival
Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany. Screening 20Hz.
ZKMbook
Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art. ZKM book, distributed by MIT. Edited by Peter Weibel. Featuring Brilliant Noise and Black Rain.
FEAT
Semiconductor have been awarded a FEAT (Future Emerging Art and Technology) residency, a collaboration between eutema (Vienna), Waag Society (Amsterdam) and Youris (Brussels), working with artist/curator Anna Dumitriu. Over the next nine months they will carry out in depth research with a FET (Future Emerging Technology) science laboratory and produce new work as a result.
La Gaîté Lyrique
Extra Fantôme at La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris. Group show exhibiting Magnetic Movie.
CAST
Semiconductor talk on their work at CAST, Helston, Cornwall.
media art biennale
Eco Expanded City, Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland. Group show exhibiting 20Hz.
Imagine Science Film Festival
Imagine Science Film Festival, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Group show and Semiconductor presentation.
Our Machines
Our Machines, The Observer Building, Hastings, UK. Group show exhibiting Band 9. Curated by Louise Colbourne.
Quantum Entanglement 2
Quantum Entanglement, Arsenal, Nizniy Novgorod, Russia. Group show exhibiting 20Hz stereoscopic installation.
photo story of CERN
Photo story of our Collide@CERN residency.
Bangalore
No1 Shanti Road, Bangalore, India. Group screening presenting All the Time in the World.
West Wednesdays
West Wednesdays, LIMA, Amsterdam. Screening Black Rain as part of an art trail.
Today’s Art, Kawasaki, Japan. Group screening presenting 20Hz, Brilliant Noise and Heliocentric.
Collide@CERN
We have been awarded the Collide@CERN Ars Electronica Award. In the coming months we will begin a two month residency at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics research facility in Geneva Switzerland, followed by a month at Ars Electronica Futurelab.
DATA DRIFT
DATA DRIFT, Kim Contemporary Art Centre, Latvia. Group Show exhibiting Band 9.
Pastoral Noir
Pastoral Noir: New English Landscapes, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Lilly Husbands
Congratulations to Lilly Husbands on winning the prestigious 2014 Norman McLaren/Evelyn Lambert Award-Best Scholarly Article in Animation for ‘The meta-physics of data: Philosophical science in Semiconductor’s animated videos’
ZKM
Infosphere, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany. Group show exhibiting Magnetic Movie and 20Hz.
Animated Wonderworlds
Animated Wonderworlds, Museum of Design, Zurich. Group show exhibiting Magnetic Movie.
Gwangju Media Art Festival
Gwangju Media Art Festival, South Korea. Exhibiting Magnetic Movie.
Superconduction
Superconduction, Dome Square, Riga, Latvia. Group Show exhibiting 20Hz (stereoscopic installation)
Open City Documentary Film Festival
Open City Documentary Film Festival, A programme of short experimental and animated work that bridge the gap of documentary and observation. Screening Magnetic Movie + panel discussion.
Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica, Screening curated by Animate Projects presenting a selection of some of the most innovative animated short films from the Ars Electronica festival in Linz. Semiconductor will be part of the panel discussion.
Cate Elwes Book Launch
Beyond the Single Screen, Tate Britain, London. Artists Lynn Loo and Guy Sherwin will premiere a new collaboration while Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) screen/stage work in situ as part of a celebration to mark the publication launch of Catherine Elwes’ Installation and the Moving Image (Wallflower Press).
Bergits Conference
International Conference of Historical Geographers 2015. Semiconductor will present their work Cosmos.
Quantum Shorts
20Hz has been awarded the Quantum Shorts prize.
Semiwild Garden
Semiwild Garden, Kouvola Art Museum, Finland. Group show exhibiting Heliocentric.
Open Media Festival, Singapore
Singapore Open Media Art Festival. Exhibiting Black Rain.
Creative Applications Network
Post on Semiconductors Catching the Light, by Alexander Scholz, Creative Applications Network.
Multiplace Festival
Multiplace Festival, Bratislava, Czech. Screening 20Hz, Puffed Rice and A-Z of Noise.
Parallel Screen
Suburban PS, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Showing Heliocentric.
Ars Jury 2015
Semiconductor are on the Prix Ars Electronica 2015 Jury for Computer Animation / Film / VFX
Pump House Gallery
3 Branches of the Same Tree, Pump House Gallery, London. Group show with newly commissioned work.
Parallel Screen
Parallel Screen, on-line screening space of Suburban PS, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Showing Some Part of Us.
Quantum of Disorder
Quantum of Disorder, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich. Group show exhibiting Magnetic Movie.
FODST
Shortlisted for the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail
MIRAJ now online
Now on-line, Moving Image Review & Art Journal, Volume 2 Number 2, Intellect Journals. Semiconductor article. Read the article: The meta-physics of data: Philosophical science in Semiconductor’s animated videos by Lilly Husbands.
Art and Science in Motion
Art and Science in Motion, Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
LAB 11
LAB 11, Arts Journal featuring Cosmos and 20Hz.
Sound and Image in Digital Media
Sound and Image in Digital Media, Oxford University Press, 2014. A Noisy Brush with the Infinite by Laura U. Marks.
ArtScience Museum Singapore
Semiconductor have been commissioned by ArtScience Museum, Singapore to realise a new installation work Catching the Light, as part of the exhibition Da Vinci: Shaping the Future.
Quantum Entanglement
Quantum Entanglement, Laboratoria, Moscow. Group show exhibiting stereoscopic version of 20Hz.
Velocity
Velocity, The Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra. Group show exhibiting Brilliant Noise and Black Rain.
Open Jerwood Forest launch
Semiconductor will launch their first public sculpture, commissioned by Jerwood Open Forest, October 2014.
Nuit Blanche Paris
Semiconductor will premiere Worlds in the Making, their new moving image performance at PariScience as part of Nuit Blanche, Paris 2014.
Carroll / Fletcher
Carroll / Fletcher On Screen in association with Animate Projects. Group show exhibiting Magnetic Movie.
Imagining Deep Time
Imagining Deep Time, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, USA. Group show exhibiting Subterranean (Seismic Blues).
Technoetic Arts Inge essay
Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, Volume 12, 2014, Intellect Journals. Semiconductor Article: Semiconductor’s landscapes as sound-sculptured time- based visualizations by Inge Hinterwaldner.