Semiconductor
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Semiconductor
Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt, Great Britain 2003
Semiconductor make moving image works which reveal our physical world in flux; cities in motion, shifting landscapes and systems in chaos. Since 1999 UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt have worked with digital animation to transcend the constraints of time, scale and natural forces; they explore the world beyond human experience, questioning our very existence.
The Mini-Epoch Series
"The Mini-Epoch Series is found animations of urban planning during the next 2000 years. Landscaping of cities yet to be conceived."
Five one-minute films looking at the relationship between man and the natural world in terms of statistical representations over millenia.
Film One: A puddle drying up over a period of four hours in Palazzo Zenobio courtyard. Composited graphics represent population density fluctuating over hundreds of years according to the availability of water, as the lake depletes. Film Two: The sun moving across the floor of Palazzo Zenobio. Animated within the suns path are composited graphical representations of land use, which adapt to the availability of sunlight over thousands of years. Film Three: The sun moving across a Palazzo Zenobio room and up the wall.The shadow from the encroaching city subsequently blocks out the light and sends the room into total darkness. Film Four: A peeling painted wall within the exhibition space. As the landscape shifts over thousands of years the inhabitants migrate across this vast desert-scape. Film Five: Animation bringing to life the motion of the Venetian architecture in the saturated terrain over hundreds of years.
