Michael Benson is a writer, film-maker, and photographer. In recent years he has authored a series of illustrated books with space themes for Abrams, the leading publisher of art books in the United States. His new book, Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle, was well in reviewed in The New York Times, The LA Times, and other publications. Benson's Beyond exhibition projects are based on his book Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes, which has been published in English, French, German, Spanish, Korean and Japanese. Beyond exhibitions of varying sizes have toured Europe and North America, and limited-edition prints from the Beyond project produced by Benson's company, Kinetikon Pictures, have been acquired by museums and private collectors.
Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is an Internet meme originating 2003 on
the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online community
users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.
It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of
certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people
in an environment where their actual identities are not known.
