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Semiconductor (also Semiconductor Films) are British filmmakers producing digital animation. Their art uses science and visual arts to express time, scale, and natural forces.

History
Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt started making art as Semiconductor in 1999. They completed a number of fellowships at The NASA Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, California USA, Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, Berwick-Upon-Tweed UK and Couvent des Récollets, Paris, France. They have performed and exhibited in Venice Biennale, Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Careof Gallery Milan, EMAF Osnabruck, and Beaconsfield Gallery London.

Awards

 * Best Video for Brilliant Noise at Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul, Korea 2006.
 * Second prize at Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival for Brilliant Noise, 2006.
 * Best Experimental Film for Magnetic Movie at Tirana International Film Festival 2007.
 * Second prize by the Science Film Festival for Brilliant Noise, a Coruna Spain, 2008.
 * Best Film for Magnetic Movie at Cutting Edge at the British Animation Awards 2008.
 * Special Mention and Best International Experimental Short for Magnetic Movie at Leeds International Film Festival 2008.
 * Magnetic Movie was purchased by the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington for the permenant collection 2008.

Short Films

 * 1) Retropolis, 1999.
 * 2) A-Z of Noise, 1999.
 * 3) Yes You Are Right!, 1999.
 * 4) Puffed Rice, 2000.
 * 5) Dat Politics, 2000.
 * 6) Earthquake Films, 2000.
 * 7) New Antics, 2000.
 * QT, 2001.
 * 1) Linear, 2001.
 * 2) Domestic EMI, 2002.
 * 3) Green Grass of Tunnel, 2002.
 * 4) Strata, 2002.
 * 5) Inaudible Cities: Part One, 2002.
 * 6) Digital Anthrax, 2002.
 * 7) Machi, 2003.
 * 8) Mini-Epoch-Series, 2003.
 * 9) The Sound of Microclimates, 2004.
 * 10) All the Time in the World, 2005.
 * 11) 200 Nanowebbers
 * 12) Ways of Making Sense, 2006.
 * 13) Do You Think Science..., 2006.
 * 14) Brilliant noise, 2006.
 * 15) Earth Moves, 2006.
 * 16) Time Out of Place, 2007.
 * 17) Magnetic Movie, 2007.
 * 18) Matter in Motion, 2008.
 * 19) Out of the Light, 2008.
 * 20) Black Rain, 2009.

Other Works
Sonic Inc., Live Performance.