{"id":11570,"date":"2018-11-30T18:52:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T02:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surrealismtoday.com\/?p=11570"},"modified":"2021-12-01T19:04:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:04:50","slug":"ben-ridgway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surrealismtoday.com\/ben-ridgway\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Ridgway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ben Ridgway is currently an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California, USA. He has 15 years of professional experience as both a 3D artist in the video game industry and as a Professor. While in the games industry he helped to create games for Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft console systems. Ben has been making experimental animations since 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy abstract animations investigate the metaphysical features of reality. 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