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Watercolour Sketches
May 12, 2013
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Ben Whitney Showreel: Four Years of Kinetic Sculpture at DJCAD
June 10, 2012

http://youtu.be/LCuHm48fu9A

Showreel for the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design Degree show 2012. Four years of work crammed into 5:27. Going from my fist animation at Uni to a small sample of the final work exhibited at the Degree Show.

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Animate Passivity: Somebody to Watch Television for you
June 10, 2012

Animate Passivity: Somebody to Watch Television for you

Still

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Dundee Degree Show 2012
June 10, 2012

Artist Portrait

Ben Whitney with the kinetic sculpture: Animate Passivity.

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Therapeutic Value
May 12, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izk–wrSve0&list=UUUmx1Ot0QfkntqGm6d7DDZA&index=1&feature=plcp

This stop-motion came together last year. It’s just a short piece.

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Somebody to Watch Television for You – ebook
April 29, 2012

Somebody to Watch Television for You – ebook

Here is a digital version of my first illustrated book.

I hope you enjoy.

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Some more ball-point drawings of my degree show sculpture.
April 10, 2012
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Hunt for Projections of Nature.
March 22, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eygfvUdKIno&list=UUUmx1Ot0QfkntqGm6d7DDZA&index=3&feature=plcp

This piece was a meditation on something that had been bothering me for a long time. It is about the way nature is perceived by some as an intellectual construct that came out of a ideal. When the world, of Europe perhaps, began to take trips out into the hills to connect with nature. It became a lost idyll of peace and the way things aught to be. This sanitized myth of nature with its order and noble savagery seems to me a dangerous and misguided thing. I’m not sure how to reconcile this with my own experience of the wild – with scorpions in shoes and black mambas under the dining room table – there is more to nature that our projections of it. It is also not just that thing which we in our grand power must protect. It is also that which allows for our very being. It is a precondition for our cities and comforts. it is not just the trees we see go by but the wheels, the road and the fire in the engines.

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Correction Machine
March 22, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp-ropeugsI&list=UUUmx1Ot0QfkntqGm6d7DDZA&index=6&feature=plcp

Still working with feathers and print media, this machine developed as a one to score out text.

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Motivations of Desire
March 22, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgHyyA1dLjs&list=UUUmx1Ot0QfkntqGm6d7DDZA&index=7&feature=plcp

The My second kinetic sculpture. This one is slightly off the track that links the technological concerns of the other works. It is more delicate and has in itself its own means of motion. The flames from the candle turn the blades made from newspaper lonely hearts columns.

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