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Semiconductor's Latest Work Uses Seismic Data From Across The Globe

Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt perform their latest work.

Multidisciplinary artistic duo Semiconductor have always incorporated plenty of science into their art, happy to have their arms around both these disciplines like two old friends. It’s seen them turn solar winds into creepy visuals, give colorful presence to the hidden lives of magnetic fields, and ask NASA scientists the unanswerable.

Premiering tonight at Cafe OTO in London, along with a piece from Valentina Vuksic, will be their latest work: a sound art piece that aggregates seismic data from across the world. It’s part of the launch for online exhibition Not For Human Consumption, which will showcase scientific and artistic works—involving mosquitoes, brain stems, black holes, hard drives, and more—which explore sounds that are experienced by recipients other than ourselves.

Semiconductor’s work always seeks to question our perceptions of the material world that surrounds us, highlighting how it changes and fluctuates depending on the instruments used to perceive it. Tonight they’ll be manifesting that ethos in their performance.

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