Semiconductor, Solar Systems
  Phoenix Brighton, 03.09 - 15.10.2011

 

   Motive Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands). 12.03 - 29.04.2011

Press release
 

Solar Systems is a major exhibition by leading Brighton based digital artists and filmmakers, Semiconductor. It is curated by Lighthouse, in partnership with Phoenix Brighton, for Brighton Digital Festival.

 

Semiconductor examine our physical environment, using science and digital craft to create artworks that question our place in the natural world.

 

Solar Systems is their first major exhibition in the South East for four years. It draws together three recent installations that explore our relationship with the Sun. The three works use different technologies – photography, satellites, and CGI – to observe the interactions between our nearest star and the Earth.

 

Heliocentric is a stunning single channel digital video installation made from time-lapse photography and astronomical tracking of the Sun's trajectory across a series of landscapes. The highly acclaimed Black Rain uses images collected by the solar satellite STEREO, which studies the solar wind and the Sun's coronal mass ejections, as they head towards Earth.

 

The rarely seen Out of the Light is a time-based sculpture which shows how celestial events, such as a solar eclipse or the transit of Venus, can reveal themselves through the play of light and shadow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French
 

© ArtCatalyse International / Marika Prévosto 2011. All Rights Reserved

Exhibition 3 September 2011–15 October 2012. Phoenix Brighton, 10–14 Waterloo Place Brighton BN2 9NB, East Sussex (UK). Tel.+44 (0)1273 603700. Wed - Sun 11am - 5pm.

 

 

These works are emblematic of the artists’ ongoing investigation of the natural world, which has resulted in major works on astronomy (Brilliant Noise, 2006), and geology (Worlds in the Making, 2011). Their unique approach has won them fellowships and residencies in significant scientific locations such as NASA’s Space Sciences Lab, the Galapagos Islands and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

 

Their work is part of several international public collections and has been exhibited globally including Venice Biennale, The Royal Academy, Hirshhorn Museum, BBC, ICA and the Exploratorium.

 

 

 

Semiconductor, Black Rain

International past exhibitions 2011