Exhibition

Semiconductor: Heliocentric

5 Mar 2010 – 29 Apr 2010

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Friday
10:00 – 17:00
Saturday
10:00 – 17:00
Sunday
10:00 – 17:00
Monday
10:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 17:00
Thursday
10:00 – 17:00

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Semiconductor are Brighton-based artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. For over a decade they have worked with video, sound and digital animation to explore our relationship to scientific knowledge. The exhibition 'Heliocentric', part of the AV Festival 10: Energy, is the first UK show to present an overview of their recent work, alongside a major new work commissioned by AV Festival and Northern Lights Film Festival. 'Heliocentric' is a three-screen installation that uses time-lapse photography and astronomical tracking to plot the sun's trajectory across a series of landscapes. It continues the artists' examination of the disparities between how we imagine the world and what science has revealed about it. It is usually all but impossible to visualize how the earth moves around the sun. Instead we 'see' the sun move around us: it requires a counter-intuitive imaginative leap to believe we are moving around the sun at extraordinary speeds. 'Heliocentric' uniquely enables us to gauge the earth's rotation and orbit around the sun. The entire environment feels to pan past each camera whilst the sun stays in the centre of each frame. The 'heliocentric' view of the universe - that the sun is the centre of the universe - was debated from the third century BC onwards and remained contentious until 17th century and marked the origins of modern scientific enquiry. Steven Hawking has described Galileo's commitment to the idea that the earth rotates around the sun, against official opposition, as responsible for the birth of modern science".

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