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North Atlantic Clouds, Terra, January 24, 2011

North Atlantic Clouds, Terra, January 24, 2011, 2016 - Composite Photograph. Digital C-print

Michael Benson

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Meltdown: A Visualization of Climate Change - Featuring Edward Burtynsky and Michael Benson

Meltdown: A Visualization of Climate Change

Featuring Edward Burtynsky and Michael Benson

23 Nov 2019 – 1 Jan 2020

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Michael Benson Op-ed in the New York Times

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Otherworlds

Michael Benson

Otherworlds

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Michael Benson's work focuses on the intersection of art and science. An artist, writer and filmmaker, in the last decade Benson has staged a series of increasingly large-scale shows of planetary landscape photography in the US and internationally. 

Benson takes raw data from planetary science archives and processes it, editing, compositing, and then ‘tiling’ individual spacecraft frames, producing seamless large-format digital C prints of landscapes currently beyond direct human experience. A major museum show titled Otherworlds: Visions of Our Solar System at London’s Natural History Museum took place in 2016, and featured new music composed by Brian Eno. The show contained extraordinarily large and detailed views of Earth — perhaps the largest, most detailed prints of our planet ever exhibited. Otherworlds subsequently travelled to the Vienna and Luxembourg Natural History Museums. His largest show to date was a 7-room, 150-print retrospective staged from 2010-2011 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. titled Beyond. Powerful in their depiction of alien landscapes currently beyond direct human experience, Benson’s work makes the case that the visual legacy of sixty years of robotic planetary exploration constitutes an exceptional chapter in the history of visual representation. 

He is also an award-winning filmmaker, with work that straddles the line between fiction and documentary film practice. In Predictions of Fire and other films, staged studio scenes and animated sequences alternate with straight documentary material. In 2008-10, Benson worked with director Terrence Malick to help produce space and cosmology sequences for Malick's film Tree of Life, which drew in part from Benson's book and exhibition projects. The film won the Palm d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. 

Benson’s fifth book for Abrams, Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time, came out in October 2014, receiving front-page coverage in The New York Times. The book was a finalist for the Science and Technology award at the 2015 Los Angeles Times “Festival of Books.” He has contributed to many magazines and newspapers, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and Rolling Stone. 

Benson is currently using a scanning electron microscope at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NYC, to focus on natural design at sub-millimeter scales for a project titled Nanocosmos. He is a Fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities and a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Media Lab.

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Earth over the Lunar Horizon, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, 12 October, 2015

Michael Benson

Earth over the Lunar Horizon, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, 12 October, 2015, 2016

Mosaic composite photograph, Digital C-print

Earth, with Hurricane and Sahara Dust, Goes West, June 13, 2015

Michael Benson

Earth, with Hurricane and Sahara Dust, Goes West, June 13, 2015, 2015

Digital Chromogenic Print

North Atlantic Clouds, Terra, January 24, 2011

Michael Benson

North Atlantic Clouds, Terra, January 24, 2011, 2016

Composite Photograph. Digital C-print

Sandstorm in the Western Sahara, Aqua, March 3, 2004.

Michael Benson

Sandstorm in the Western Sahara, Aqua, March 3, 2004., 2012

Composite Photograph. Digital C-print

Ground Fog in Valles Marineris, Mars Express, May 25, 2004

Michael Benson

Ground Fog in Valles Marineris, Mars Express, May 25, 2004, 2012

Mosaic Composite Photograph. Digital C-Print

Spring Sublimation in High-Latitude Southern Dunes, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, November 20, 2012

Michael Benson

Spring Sublimation in High-Latitude Southern Dunes, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, November 20, 2012, 2016

Mosaic composite photograph. Digital C-print

Frosted Mars Dunes in Winter, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, November 26, 2006

Michael Benson

Frosted Mars Dunes in Winter, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, November 26, 2006, 2011

Digital c-print

Sunset on Mars, Spirit Rover, May 19, 2005

Michael Benson

Sunset on Mars, Spirit Rover, May 19, 2005, 2012

Composite Photograph. Digital c-print

Mars and the Milky Way, Rosetta, December 3, 2006

Michael Benson

Mars and the Milky Way, Rosetta, December 3, 2006, 2012

Composite Photograph. Digital c-print

Rover Tracks in Gale Crater, Curiosity Rover, February 9, 2014

Michael Benson

Rover Tracks in Gale Crater, Curiosity Rover, February 9, 2014, 2015

Mosaic Composite Photograph. Digital C-print

Basaltic Dune Field in Gusev Crater, Spirit Rover, December 30, 2005-January 1, 2006

Michael Benson

Basaltic Dune Field in Gusev Crater, Spirit Rover, December 30, 2005-January 1, 2006, 2012

Digital Chromogenic Print

Gale Crater Landscape, Curiosity Rover, May 4, 2014

Michael Benson

Gale Crater Landscape, Curiosity Rover, May 4, 2014, 2015

Mosaic Composite Photograph. Digital C-print

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