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Black Box: Semiconductor
Artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt, aka Semiconductor, have collaborated since 1999 on various forms of “digital noise and computer anarchy,” including films, experimental DVDs, and multimedia performances. The London-based pair makes moving-image works that reveal our physical world in flux: cities in motion, shifting landscapes, and systems in chaos. They strive to transcend the constraints of time, scale, and natural forces and explore the world beyond human experience, questioning our very existence.
in depth
One of the most celebrated conceptual artists of his time, John Baldessari also taught at California Institute of the Arts for several decades. After abandoning traditional painting in the late 1960s, Baldessari began to explore the ways in which visual images establish and embody meaning. This investigation is manifested in painted words carefully chosen by the artist but rendered by a sign painter. As in
Exhibiting Paintings, these texts typically describe the processes of exhibiting and evaluating art, offering a visual manifestation of a theoretical discourse. Baldessari also creates sequences of photographs that question the nature of human perception, and his video and mixed media works investigate the associations between visual experience and language.
