Ben Whitehouse

REVOLUTIONS are 24 hour single captures and are exhibited in the same amount of time - 24 hours.
As the first seamless 24 hour videos they are something of a media first. Shown here are edited clips.

Alan Artner, The Chicago Tribune
The changes in the New York piece are especially beautiful, as the park’s entire South-to-North expanse is dappled by light that breaks through clouds as ambient sound wafts up from streets. Since the changes are experienced in actual time, the pieces achieved heightened intensity from having had the “real” world given a sharper focus by the frame Whitehouse put around them. 

Maxine Gaiber, Executive Director, The Delaware Contemporary
Whitehouse's works are beautifully conceived and meticulously executed visual art works. They can be seen in a minute or studied for hours and they reward the viewer in direct relation to the time spent viewing them. - Maxine Gaiber, Executive Director, The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts

John Brunetti, Independent Critic/Curator
It seems only natural that Whitehouse's interest in creating artworks that expand the possibilities of marking time and recording transitions via the plein air experience would lead him to his most ground-breaking new body of work - Revolution - a series of state-of-the-art twenty four hour single shot HD videos that record every movement, every shift of light that occurs in the composition for an entire twenty four hour period - one revolution of the earth.   The Revolution Series was conceived in December of 2002 as a means of recording the fleeting moments of an entire day through twenty four hour seamless digital 'paintings'. Compositions unfold before the viewer as incremental changes of light and sound.  The Revolution works have precedent in the underground films of Andy Warhol, such as Empire which depicted the 'stillness' of the Empire State Building from day to night until film ran out of the camera. Debuting at the Tarble Arts Center is Whitehouse's Revolution: Bowl of Fruit a still-life inspired by Monet's Still Life with Apples and Grapes 1980 (Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago). As this work plays in the gallery the viewer sees barely perceptible changes in light and infinitesimal movement through a window. Whitehouse takes the fleeting quality of Impressionism that helped define the speed of modern life in the twentieth century and reveals it to be a fallacy.  Look, he suggests, life moves at a much slower pace than we ever imagined.  

What do you see as the world revolves before your eyes?