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Check out this interview with SSF President Julia Christensen, as she describes the research process that led to the Tree of Life. This video was produced by the LACMA Art + Tech Lab, Fall 2019.
“First draft design of antenna tree by mounting and exciting current probes,” from Interim Report, Tree of Life Antenna and Ground Segment Design,” by Ingie Baho During the summer of 2019, The Tree of Life team welcomed intern Ingie Baho…
During the summer of 2019, Julia Christensen was awarded the A+S Incubator residency at Fulcrum Arts in Pasadena, CA. Fulcrum is a non-profit arts organization that supports artists working with scientists. In July, JPL’s A-Team (made up of members of…
Over the summer of 2019, Julia Christensen and musician/programmer Tom Hall created data sonification patches using Max The prototypes are wildly successful, and led to Julia Christensen’s first live tree prototypes in the exhibition, Upgrade Available, at ArtCenter in Pasadena. This video…
In May 2019, JPL’s A-Team held a meeting at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art + Tech Lab. The purpose of this meeting was to consider the Tree of Life mission concept in the context of an art…
Julia Christensen’s ongoing project, Upgrade Available, investigates how “upgrade culture”—the perceived relentless need to endlessly upgrade electronics and recordable media to remain relevant—impacts life on a range of time scales. The artist’s work with the LACMA Art + Technology Lab…
On October 28, 2019, Dr. Anthony Freeman and artist Julia Christensen discussed their collaborative work on the Proxima B spacecraft/art concept, live, in front of an audience. The event took place in the Art + Tech Lab at the Los…
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