Past Event
Visual Arts

Semiconductor in conversation with Ariane Koek

Mon 17 Feb 2020

A chance to hear the Brighton based internationally acclaimed artists Semiconductor discuss their creative practice with Ariane Koek, founder of Arts at CERN, creative producer and curator in the fields of arts, science and technology.

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Semiconductor is UK artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Over the past twenty years of collaboration they have become known for a unique and innovative body of moving image works, sculptures and installations which explore the material nature of our physical world and how we experience it through the lens of science and technology.

Their works often evolve from intensive periods of research into scientific disciplines, this has seen them as artists in residence at internationally renowned science laboratories, including; CERN The European Laboratory of Particle Physics, Mineral Sciences Laboratory, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C and The NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley California.

Semiconductor have exhibited their work internationally including at The 14th Media Art Biennale Santiago, Chile, City Gallery, New Zealand, CCCB, Barcelona, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Australia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, ZKM, Karlsruhe, ArtScience Museum, Singapore, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, FACT, Liverpool, Royal Academy of Arts, London.

See Semiconductor's HALO at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts Sat 2–Wed 6 May