BEN RUBIN, MUSEUMS, & SCIENCE

 

Here’s a little bit more about me and my connection to museums and my love of science.

 

My first job was at the Museum of Cartoon Art in Rye Brook, NY. I worked in the gift shop, collected admissions, helped mount exhibits, and got to meet a lot of my cartoonist heroes.

 

At AMC Networks, I produced a program titled MICRO HD. We partnered with the Liberty Science Center and were one of the first productions to capture high-definition footage with their electron microscope.

 

At AMC Networks, I also partnered with the New England Aquarium for programming titled TANK TV.

 

MICRO HD and TANK TV were both featured in an exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image.

 

In 2025, I mounted an exhibit at the Banksy Museum in New York City.

 

At Discovery Networks, I was the Creative Director of Marketing for Planet Green, a cable network focused on environmental themes, and Discovery Fit & Health, a channel that featured medical documentaries and reality shows.

The content on both channels was very STEM-focused.

I was fortunate to spend a lot of time working with Ed Begley Jr. and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

 

Over the past several years, I have produced a lot of short-form marketing content for EarthxTV. EarthxTV is a television network dedicated to environmental conservation, sustainability, and biodiversity.

 

I applied and was accepted to the NASA Social. A NASA Social event provides content creators the opportunity to go behind the scenes at NASA facilities and events and speak with scientists, engineers, astronauts, and managers.

Our group spent 2-days touring the facilities at Cape Canaveral and had a front row seat to the launch of the SpaceX CRS-11 mission to the International Space Station. This mission marked the 100th launch from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A and was the first mission to reuse a Dragon cargo capsule.


I applied for a postion on dearMoon project. The dearMoon project was a proposed lunar tourism mission conceived and financed by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. It would have seen Maezawa and eight civilian artists fly a circumlunar trajectory around the Moon aboard a SpaceX Starship spacecraft.