Artist Talk & Discussion: Semiconductor

Join Semiconductor and curator Prof. Sarah Cook for a discussion about the creative process behind their latest work-in-progress, Light in Motion.

From 6 - 24 January 2025, Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) are using Fabrica's main hall as a temporary private studio space to develop Light in Motion - a large-scale image capturing experiment using emerging technology they learnt about at a recent residency with the Extreme Light Group, based at the Department of Physics, University of Glasgow.

Whilst on residency in Glasgow, Ruth and Joe became intrigued by the way in which light behaves counterintuitively when observed at the speed of light, for example, noticing the way in which a pulse of light coming towards you does not arrive in the order that we experience on a human timescale, but arrives in reverse, due to the geometry of the photon's paths towards us.

The discussion will be facilitated by Prof. Sarah Cook, the curator of Semiconductor’s residency with the Extreme Light Group at University of Glasgow. They will speak together about Ruth and Joe’s time with the Extreme Light Group, the process of researching alongside scientists to develop new works and the starting points for and thinking behind the Light in Motion project.