Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists’ Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013. Tate Britain, Clore Auditorium and The Grand Saloon. Screening Black Rain and talking as part of a chaired discussion.
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Basia interview for Jerwood Open Forest
An interview with Basia Lewandowska Cummings for Jerwood Open Forest.
Site Exploration, Phoenix, Leicester
Site Exploration, Phoenix Art Centre, Leicester, UK. Group show exhibiting a four channel version of our audio work Subterranean (Seismic Blues)
Jerwood Exhibition
Jerwood Open Forest, Jerwood Space, London. Group Show exhibiting new installation work: Data Projector.
HOLO Magazine
HOLO, a magazine exploring the convergence of art, science and technology. A feature on Semiconductor in their inaugural issue.
BBC Radio 4 / Hack My hearing
BBC Radio 4 programme Hack My Hearing by Frank Swain, featuring Semiconductors’ sound work.
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DINCA Vision Quest 2013, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, USA. Screening Some Part of Us Will Have Become.
LIAF
London International Animation Festival, London, UK. Screening Magnetic Movie in ’10 best science fiction films’ programme.
Swarovski Digital Crystal, Beijing Design Week.
Swarovski Digital Crystal, Beijing Design Week.751 D-Park, Beijing, China. Exhibiting 4 channel installation, The Shaping Grows.
Access Festival, Pau France
Acces(s) Festival, Pau France. Group show exhibiting 3 channel Heliocentric installation and single channel Black Rain.
Crystallize, Group Exhibition
Crystallize, Old Billingsgate, London. Group show exhibiting 3 channel installation Worlds in the Making.
Semiconductor article in Moving Image Review & Art Journal
Moving Image Review & Art Journal, Volume 2 Number 2, Intellect Journals. Semiconductor article. Read the article here: The meta-physics of data: Philosophical science in Semiconductor’s animated videos by Lilly Husbands
Transmissions ’13: A Festival of Independent Cinema
Transmissions ’13: A Festival of Independent Cinema, New Delhi, India. Screening Magnetic Movie.
Winterhur Film Festival
Winterhur International Film Festival, Zurich, Switzerland. Screening Black Rain and Heliocentric.
Invideo Milan, Milan, Italy.
Invideo Milan, Milan, Italy.Screening 20Hz.
Maintenant Festival, Rennes, France.
Maintenant Festival, Rennes, France. Screening 20Hz.
Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, U.S.
The 6th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, U.S.A. Screening 20Hz and Some Part of Us Will Have Become in competition.
Polly Maggoo / 20Hz award
20Hz awarded the short film prize at The 7th Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinemas (RISC), Marseille, France.
Natlab
Art, Technology & Innovation. Natlab, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Exhibiting Heliocentric,20Hz and Black Rain.
Breath of Charybdis
The Breathe of Charybdis, Centre Culturel Regional Dudelange Opderschmelz, Luxembourg. Screening 20Hz. Curated by Amelia Ishmael.
Radical Fictions
Radical Fictions, 4th Exhibition of Digital Art, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil. Group show exhibiting Worlds in the Making.
7th Recontres Internationales Sciences et Cinemas (RISE)
7th Recontres Internationales Sciences et Cinemas, Marseille, France. Screening Heliocentric, Black Rain and 20Hz in competition.
Ikono On Air Festival
Ikono On Air Festival, Screening 20Hz. Programme curated by Omar Kholeif.
5th Cairo Video Festival
5th Cairo Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt. Screening 20Hz.
Ars Electronica Symposium ‘Expanded Digital Animation: Mapping an unlimited landscape’
Ars Electronica Festival 2013, Linz, Austria. Symposium: ‘Expanded Digital Animation: Mapping an unlimited landscape’. Semiconductor will present a short history of their work in animation.
The meta-physics of data by Lilly Husbands
The meta-physics of data: Philosophical science in Semiconductor’s animated videos, Lilly Husbands
Moving Image Review & Art Journal · Volume 2 · Number 2
© 2013 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. doi: 10.1386/miraj.2.2.198_1
Shortlisted for Jerwood Open Forest
Shortlisted for Jerwood Open Forest: Semiconductor are one of five artists selected for a six month period of r+d to expand on the concept of their proposal to Jerwood Open Forest and explore potential sites.
Worlds in the Making, House of Electronic Arts Basel, Switzerland. Solo show + artist talk, coinciding with Basel Art Fair .
Let There Be Light, House of Electronic Arts Basel, Switzerland. Solo show + artist talk, coinciding with Basel Art Fair.
Exploratorium Residency
Exploratorium Artists in Residence, San Francisco, USA.
Ceclies symposium
Keynote Speakers at Nw/Thn: Documenting, Publishing and Disseminating Objects and Experiences Symposium. University of Sussex, UK.
Galápagos, CAM, Lisbon. Group show exhibiting Worlds in the Making, Seismograph Drawings and Lava Paintings.
Galápagos, CAM, Lisbon. Group show exhibiting 3 channel Worlds in the Making, Seismograph Drawings and Flow Maps.
The Shaping Grows, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA. The Shaping Grows installation.
The Shaping Grows, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA. The Shaping Grows installation.
The New Natural
The New Natural, Symposium and Installation of 20Hz. Stroud Valleys Artspace, Stroud,UK.
Flow, Just Flow: Variations of a Theme
Flow, Just Flow: Variations on a Theme, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museum, Virginia, USA. Group Show exhibiting 20Hz.
Space Odyssey 2.0, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
Space Odyssey 2.0, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
The 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival. Screening Some Part of Us Will Have Become, in competition.
The 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, USA. Screening Some Part of Us Will Have Become in competition.
Oslo Lux 2013, Oslo, Norway. One day event on LIGHT, SPACE and TECHNOLOGY. Semicondcutor presentation.
Oslo Lux 2013, Oslo, Norway. One day event on LIGHT, SPACE and TECHNOLOGY. Semicondcutor presentation.
The Dark Universe, Sonic Acts Festival, New Arts Space, Amsterdam. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
The Dark Universe, Sonic Acts Festival, New Arts Space, Amsterdam. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
Film Comment Magazine, New York – Article
Film Comment Magazine, New York. Article on Semiconductor.
Earth Sound Earth Signal Book by Douglas Kahn. UC Press.
Earth Sound Earth Signal Book by Douglas Kahn. UC Press.
Not for Human Consumption, Cafe Oto, London, UK. Exhibition Launch with Semiconductor & Valentina Vuksic. Premiere of new sound work that aggregates seismic data on a global scale.
Not for Human Consumption, Cafe Oto, London, UK. Exhibition Launch with Semiconductor & Valentina Vuksic. Premiere of new sound work that aggregates seismic data on a global scale.
Galápagos, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. Group show exhibiting Worlds in the Making and Seismograph Drawings.
Galápagos, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. Group show exhibiting Worlds in the Making and Seismograph Drawings.
Illuminated, Quad Gallery, Derby, UK. Group show exhibiting Brilliant Noise. Review
Illuminated, Quad Gallery, Derby, UK. Group show exhibiting Brilliant Noise. Review
Animpact Festival, Seoul, Korea. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Animpact Festival, Seoul, Korea. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Braunschweig International Film Festival, Germany. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Braunschweig International Film Festival, Germany. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Digital Art Festival Taipei, Taiwan. Screening 20Hz.
Digital Art Festival Taipei, Taiwan. Screening 20Hz.
New York Film Festival: Views from the Avant Garde, New York, USA. Screening 20Hz.
New York Film Festival: Views from the Avant Garde, New York, USA. Screening 20Hz.
Union Docs, Brookly, NY. Group screening presented by Video Data Bank. Screening 20Hz and Heliocentric.
Union Docs, Brookly, NY. Group screening presented by Video Data Bank. Screening 20Hz and Heliocentric.
Kontraste Festival, Krems, Austria. Semiconductor presentation / interview and screening.
Kontraste Festival, Krems, Austria. Semiconductor presentation / interview and screening.
Digital Crystal: Swarovski at the Design Museum, Design Museum, London. Group show premiering new commission, The Shaping Grows.
Digital Crystal: Swarovski at the Design Museum, Design Museum, London. Group show premiering new commission, The Shaping Grows.
Field Conditions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA. Group show exhibiting 20Hz.
Field Conditions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA. Group show exhibiting 20Hz.
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, USA. Semiconductor screening programme and q+a.
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, USA. Semiconductor screening programme and q+a.
18th Bristol Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, Bristol, UK. Screening 20Hz in competition.
18th Bristol Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, Bristol, UK. Screening 20Hz in competition.
London International Animation Festival, UK. Screening 20Hz in competition.
London International Animation Festival, UK. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Split Film Festival, Croatia. Screening 20Hz.
Split Film Festival, Croatia. Screening 20Hz.
Ottawa International Animation Festival
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Intersections: Experimental Animation in the Third Dimension programme. Screening 20Hz, Magnetic Movie and 200 Nanowebbers.
Imagine Science Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland. Semiconductor programme + Q+A.
Imagine Science Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland. Semiconductor programme + Q+A.
Womad Festival, 20Hz installation.
Womad Festival, 20Hz installation.
Curtas Vila Do Conde, Portugal. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Curtas Vila Do Conde, Portugal. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Fest Anca, International Animation Festival, Zilina, Slovakia. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Fest Anca, International Animation Festival, Zilina, Slovakia. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Mistaken Prescence, Lincoln Priory, UK. Group show exhibting Indefatigable.
Mistaken Prescence, Lincoln Priory, UK. Group show exhibting Indefatigable.
Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Worldwide Short Film Festival Festival, Toronto, Canada. Screening 20Hz.
Worldwide Short Film Festival Festival, Toronto, Canada. Screening 20Hz.
Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany. Screening 20Hz.
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany. Screening 20Hz.
RML Cine Chamber at Mutek 2012, Montreal, Canada. 10 screen Brilliant Noise.
RML Cine Chamber at Mutek 2012, Montreal, Canada. 10 screen Brilliant Noise.
European Media Art Festival 2012, Osnabrueck, Germany. Screening 20Hz.
European Media Art Festival 2012, Osnabrueck, Germany. Screening 20Hz.
‘ 20 Hz’ has been awarded the ‘Golden Gate Award for New Visions’ at San Francisco International Film Festival.
‘ 20 Hz’ has been awarded the ‘Golden Gate Award for New Visions’ at San Francisco International Film Festival.
San Francisco International Film Festival, USA. Screening 20Hz.
San Francisco International Film Festival, USA. Screening 20Hz.
AniFest, Teplece, Czech Republic. Screening 20Hz.
AniFest, Teplece, Czech Republic. Screening 20Hz.
Galapagos, Bluecoat. Liverpool, UK. Group show exhibiting Seismograph drawings.
Galapagos, Bluecoat. Liverpool, UK. Group show exhibiting Seismograph drawings.
’20 Hz’ has been awarded the ‘Art and Science Award’ at Ann Arbor Film Festival.
’20 Hz’ has been awarded the ‘Art and Science Award’ at Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Semiconductor have been awarded the Samsung Art + Prize.
Semiconductor have been awarded the Samsung Art + Prize.
Samsung Art + Prize, BFI Southbank, London. Exhibiting Worlds in the Making and 20 Hz.
Samsung Art + Prize, BFI Southbank, London. Exhibiting Worlds in the Making and 20 Hz.
Frankenstein’s Moon, interview for BBC Radio 4. Adam Rutherford explores the influence of astronomical and other celestial phenomena on the work of writers and artists.
Frankenstein’s Moon, interview for BBC Radio 4. Adam Rutherford explores the influence of astronomical and other celestial phenomena on the work of writers and artists.
41st International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands. Premiering 20 Hz.
41st International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands. Premiering 20 Hz.
Visualizing Sound, Laboral, Gijon, Spain. Group show exhibiting 20 Hz.
Visualizing Sound, Laboral, Gijon, Spain. Group show exhibiting 20 Hz.
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, USA. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, USA. Screening 20Hz in competition.
Lovebytes, Sheffield, UK. Screening 20Hz
Lovebytes, Sheffield, UK. Screening 20Hz
Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, UK. Screening 20Hz.
Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, UK. Screening 20Hz.
Japan Media Arts Festival, Prix Ars Electronica screening Black Rain.
Japan Media Arts Festival, Prix Ars Electronica screening Black Rain.
Ives Ensemble, Amsterdam. Performance of John Cages ‘Atlas Eclipticalis’ and ‘Music for Five’ with Brilliant Noise and Black Rain screened alongside.
Ives Ensemble, Amsterdam. Performance of John Cages ‘Atlas Eclipticalis’ and ‘Music for Five’ with Brilliant Noise and Black Rain screened alongside.
Is this Thing On?, Contemporary Art Centre, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Group show exhibting Black Rain.
Is this Thing On?, Contemporary Art Centre, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Group show exhibting Black Rain.
Taxonomies, Pavillon d’exposition – Ecole d’art de Blois-Agglopolys, France
Taxonomies, Pavillon d’exposition – Ecole d’art de Blois-Agglopolys, France. Group show exhibiting Black Rain and Out of the Light installations. Including: Shaun Gladwell, Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, Mark Lewis, David Kidman, Tracy Moffat/Gary Hillberg, Peter Tscherkassky.
Changing Landscapes, Alaska Design Forum, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau, Alaska. A series of Semiconductor lectures.
Changing Landscapes, Alaska Design Forum, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau, Alaska. A series of Semiconductor lectures.
‘Invisible Fields’ Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
‘Invisible Fields’ Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain. Produced by Arts Santa Monica in association with Lighthouse. Group show exhibiting Magnetic Movie and a new work, ‘20Hz‘. Co-commissioned by Arts Santa Monica and Lighthouse. Supported by British Council.
‘Solar Systems’ Phoenix Brighton, Brighton, UK. Curated by Lighthouse, Brighton. Semiconductor solo show.
‘Solar Systems’ Phoenix Brighton, Brighton, UK. Curated by Lighthouse, Brighton. Semiconductor solo show.
Nuit Blanche, Paris, France. Group Show exhibiting Heliocentric and Black Rain installations.
Nuit Blanche, Paris, France. Group Show exhibiting Heliocentric and Black Rain installations.
‘Worlds in the Making’ FACT, Liverpool, UK. Semiconductor solo show.
‘Worlds in the Making’ FACT, Liverpool, UK. Semiconductor solo show.
‘Star Voyager: Exploring Space on Screen’ ACMI, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia. Group show exhibting Black Rain.
‘Star Voyager: Exploring Space on Screen’ ACMI, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia. Group show exhibting Black Rain.
Festival De Basis, Soesterberg, The Netherlands. Heliocentric, three screen installation in a nuclear bunker.
Festival De Basis, Soesterberg, The Netherlands. Heliocentric, three screen installation in a nuclear bunker.
TAP, Southend, UK. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
TAP, Southend, UK. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
Meet the Artist, Phoenix Brighton, Brighton , UK. Semiconductor presentation during Solar Systems solo show.
Meet the Artist, Phoenix Brighton, Brighton , UK. Semiconductor presentation during Solar Systems solo show.
NOVA, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Semiconductor screening programme.
NOVA, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Semiconductor screening programme.
‘Our Origins’, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, USA. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
‘Our Origins’, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, USA. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
11th Seoul International New Media Festival (NeMaf 2011), South Korea. Heliocentric Installation.
11th Seoul International New Media Festival (NeMaf 2011), South Korea. Heliocentric Installation.
‘Watch me Move’, Barbican, London. Group show exhibiting Matter in Motion.
‘Watch me Move’, Barbican, London. Group show exhibiting Matter in Motion.
‘Worlds’, Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, USA. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
‘Worlds’, Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, USA. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
‘Halikonlahti’, Salo Veturitalli Art Musem, Finland. Group show exhibiting Heliocentric.
‘Halikonlahti’, Salo Veturitalli Art Musem, Finland. Group show exhibiting Heliocentric.
‘L’Objet Photographique, une Invention Permanente’, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris. Group show exhibiting Earth Moves and All the Time in the World.
‘L’Objet Photographique, une Invention Permanente’, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris. Group show exhibiting Earth Moves and All the Time in the World.
‘WANI’, FONDATION D’ENTREPRISE RICARD, Paris, France. Group show exhibting Black Rain.
‘WANI’, FONDATION D’ENTREPRISE RICARD, Paris, France. Group show exhibting Black Rain.
EMAF, Osnabrueck, Germany. Screening Heliocentric.
EMAF, Osnabrueck, Germany. Screening Heliocentric.
Vienna Independent Shorts, International Short Film Festival, Austria. Semiconductor are the ‘International Tribute Guests’ and will screen and present their work.
Vienna Independent Shorts, International Short Film Festival, Austria. Semiconductor are the ‘International Tribute Guests’ and will screen and present their work.
‘Wild Sky’, Edith Russ Haus Fur Media Kunst, Germany. Group show exhibiting Out of the Light. Catalogue here.
‘Wild Sky’, Edith Russ Haus Fur Media Kunst, Germany. Group show exhibiting Out of the Light. Catalogue here.
‘GATE(WAY)S’, KUMU Art Musem, Tallinn, Estonia. Group show exhibiting Magnetic Movie.
‘GATE(WAY)S’, KUMU Art Musem, Tallinn, Estonia. Group show exhibiting Magnetic Movie.
‘Space Odyssey’, Art Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
‘Space Odyssey’, Art Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine. Group show exhibiting Black Rain.
10th International Documentary Film Festival ‘Encuentros del Otro Cine’ EDOC10, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Screening Indefatigable.
10th International Documentary Film Festival ‘Encuentros del Otro Cine’ EDOC10, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Screening Indefatigable.
14th Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 Alternative Now, Wroclaw, Poland. Screening Black Rain.
14th Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 Alternative Now, Wroclaw, Poland. Screening Black Rain.
X_Science Cinema Between Science and Science Fiction, Genova, Italy. Screening Indefatigable in competition.
X_Science Cinema Between Science and Science Fiction, Genova, Italy. Screening Indefatigable in competition.
Environmental Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, USA. Semiconductor talk and screening.
Environmental Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, USA. Semiconductor talk and screening.
Art as a Way of Knowing Conference, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA. Semiconductor participation and performance.
Art as a Way of Knowing Conference, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA. Semiconductor participation and performance.
Dynamics of Collaboration and Forms of Creativity, British Council + Centre de Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain. Semiconductor screening, performance and discussion.
Dynamics of Collaboration and Forms of Creativity, British Council + Centre de Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain. Semiconductor screening, performance and discussion.
Fresh Moving Image Festival, Cardiff. Semiconductor are keynote speakers.
Fresh Moving Image Festival, Cardiff. Semiconductor are keynote speakers.
Smithsonian Artists Residency Fellowship
Smithsonian Artists Residency Fellowship, Semiconductor spent three months based in the Mineral Sciences Department at the Smithsonan
Natural History Museum, Washington DC, USA.
SESC Sao Paulo, Brazil
SESC Sao Paulo, Brazil. Three screen installation of Brilliant Noise and live soundtrack performance to Brilliant Noise, Black Rain and Heliocentric.
Semiconductor presentation at Royal College of Art, London.
Semiconductor presentation at Royal College of Art, London.
27th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany. Screening Heliocentric.
27th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany. Screening Heliocentric.
14th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech. Screening Heliocentric.
14th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech. Screening Heliocentric.
Indefatigable is now distributed by the British Council.
Indefatigable is now distributed by the British Council.
Arbor Film Festival, USA. Black Rain featured on DVD collection.
48th Arbor Film Festival, USA. Black Rain featured on DVD collection.
Mostra de ciencia e cinema, A Coruna, Spain. Screening a Semiconductor HD programme.
Mostra de ciencia e cinema, A Coruna, Spain. Screening a Semiconductor HD programme.
National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC. Semiconductor presentation.
National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC. Semiconductor presentation.
4th Cairo Video Festival, screening Matter in Motion and Time out of Place.
4th Cairo Video Festival, screening Matter in Motion and Time out of Place.