Biography:

Benjamin Orion Rush is a visual artist, educator, and sometimes curator and writer. He was born in Concord, NH, USA, and studied Drawing at the Art Institute of Boston before earning his BFA in Photography with honors from the Savannah College of Art & Design. In 2009 he earned an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland where he currently lives and works.

Artist Statement:

My work as an artist has dual pathways. I work as a large format photographer seeking out projects that discuss man’s impact and interaction with place and landscape. This includes photographic series of Post-Katrina New Orleans, Maine, and Mississippi. My second line of research (also largely-lens based) explores the relationship between image, transmission, and the effects of various media on cultural memory. My most recent project, Seeking Tranquility uses as a point of departure a brief 1971, exhibition of the Apollo 10 space craft as it appeared at Glasgow's Tramway Museum. The site specific installation includes elements digital imaging, interactive computer programming, short-range radio broadcast and sculpture.

Much of my recent fieldwork is deeply concerned with how ideas shift their meaning through mediation, and the construction of that mediated experience. From this comes my interest in our desire to communicate and how information and meaning is lost or changed along the way. The work has examined the tautology of fandom, the omniscience of global networked cameras, and the construction of global media event.