{"id":2084,"date":"2017-03-03T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2017-03-03T09:25:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T09:25:55","slug":"phd-candidate-returns-from-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/03\/03\/phd-candidate-returns-from-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth University PhD candidate returns from &#8216;Mars&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/benipi.com\">Benjamin Pothier<\/a>, a Plymouth University PhD candidate in\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planetary_Collegium\">Planetary Collegium<\/a>\u00a0research group, is successfully back from a Mars analog expedition to the Atacama desert in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>On 1st February 2017, he joined a group of explorers and climbers, including astronaut candidates from the <a href=\"http:\/\/projectpossum.org\/\">PoSSUM<\/a> program, for a 15 day expedition to one of the harshest environments on Earth\u00a0and the most similar environment to \u00a0Mars on our planet.The expedition was led\u00a0by Dr Ulyana Horodyskyj, C.E.O of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceinthewild.com\/\">Science In the Wild<\/a> and a world renowned glaciologist and geologist. During the expedition the group attempted to summit\u00a0the Ojos Del Salado, the highest active volcano on Earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2091\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the expedition Benjamin\u00a0had the opportunity to direct a 360 immersive film project in collaboration with virtual reality production studio <a href=\"http:\/\/herve.io\">HERVE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the artistic projects related to the Atacama expedition, this project has received a postgraduate research grant from the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University and will be developed in the coming months in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/staff\/lee-nutbean\">Lee Nutbean<\/a>, a PhD candidate in <a href=\"http:\/\/i-dat.org\/\">i-DAT<\/a> as well as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danieladepaulis.com\/\">Daniela Depaulis<\/a>, guest researcher at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Pothier, a Plymouth University PhD candidate in\u00a0the Planetary Collegium\u00a0research group, is successfully back from a Mars analog expedition to the Atacama desert in Chile. On 1st February 2017, he joined a group of explorers and climbers, including astronaut candidates from the PoSSUM program, for a 15 day expedition to one of the harshest environments&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/03\/03\/phd-candidate-returns-from-mars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plymouth University PhD candidate returns from &#8216;Mars&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,138],"tags":[125,686,12,234,684,152,126],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-transdisciplinary-creative-practices","tag-benjamin-pothier","tag-expedition","tag-film","tag-i-dat","tag-lee-nutbean","tag-phd","tag-planetary-collegium","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}