Semiconductor The Shaping Grows

  • Semiconductor
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  • Black Rain 2009
  • Heliocentric 2010
  • Indefatigable 2010
  • Magnetic Movie 2007
  • Worlds in the Making 2011

The Shaping Grows

The fantastical mineral crystals that appear, grow and combine in this computer-generated subterranean cave are built up from the very simplest of digital shapes. Controlled by seismic data collected from recent earthquake activity around the world, their changing forms represent multiple time frames of geological events and processes, mirroring the entire evolution of our ever-shifting planet. By studying the shape and structure of these raw molecular structures we can decode the memory of their making and deduce the conditions in which they grew.

Semiconductor

Semiconductor is a partnership between British artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Their moving-image works explore the material nature of our world and how we experience it. They have exhibited widely, including showings at the Venice Biennale, the Royal Academy of Arts, London, the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington and the Exploratorium, San Francisco. In 2012 Semiconductor won the Samsung Art+ prize for new media art and a San Francisco International Film Festival Golden Gate Award.