In training with scientist-astronaut candidates
The artist-researcher Benjamin Pothier attended recently a training for scientist-astronaut candidates in Connecticut. Here is the story.
by Benjamin Pothier
The image that travelled 800,000 kilometers through space
Mars, the Earth and the Moon joined by the magic of an image… The artist-researcher Benjamin Pothier tells us about this space art performance from Dwingeloo radio telescope.
Marko Peljhan: “Poles are sensors of our planet” (2/2)
Second part in polar areas of our wide-ranging interview with Marko Peljhan, behind the Makrolab, on the occasion of the twenty-year anniversary of this utopian techno-ecological architecture.
Marko Peljhan: “We materialized the utopia of the Makrolab” (1/2)
Interview with Marko Peljhan, the Slovenian artist behind Makrolab, which since 1997 has traveled around the world, hosting artists, hackers, scientists. Part 1.
I explored the Atacama desert as if it were Mars (2/2)
Experiencing very high altitude to prepare for a journey into space: artist-researcher Benjamin Pothier tells Makery about his expedition in the Chilean highlands.
I explored the Atacama desert as if it were Mars (1/2)
The artist-researcher Benjamin Pothier joined a geological and glaciological expedition in the Chilean desert, in conditions analogous to Mars. First part of his logbook for Makery.