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James Whitney













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James Whitney (born in Pasadena!)

 

With his brother John Whitney, he invented optical printers and stencils.

 

Influence:

Sri Ramana Maharish à interconnectedness of everything

Yoga and meditation practice

Mandala à meditation aids, expression of inner perception, simple symmetric patterns

Taoist ideals

 
















 

Yantra, Lapis

 

Made by punching holes on index cards.

 

Felt like I was looking blood streams through microscopic lens.

 

Mediation music, chanting

Repetive images, music

 

Third eye

Vagina

Isoginchaku --- mandala images

 

Built analogue computer

Slits scan

 

Overexpose-fading dissolving images

 

Use of circles---meditation, focus toward the center, inward