The Space Song Foundation is included in the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s (CLUI) upcoming exhibition at their Desert Research Station (DRS). The exhibition, “Remote Sensing: Explorations Into the Art of Detection,” is part of the Getty’s 2024-2025 PST initiative, Art + Science Collide. The Space Song Foundation has been working for a couple of […]
Space Song Art Center is a record of songs by Space Song President Julia Christensen and long-time collaborator Tom Hall. The works are all made using data generated by three trees in Christensen’s 2020 solo exhibition, Upgrade Available, at ArtCenter’s Mullin Gallery in downtown Pasadena. The Tree of Life gallery installation is a prototype of
Aug DEC Apr 01 2022 2023 2024 About this captureSkip to content Due to COVID response measures, this event has been postponed until Friday, September 23, 2022. From the Cleveland Museum of Natural History website: Artist, writerAssociate Professor of Integrated Media, Oberlin CollegePresident, Space Song Foundation As part of our Centennial Speaker Series, we are pleased to
The Space Song Foundation recently launched its first public campaign on Kickstarter. We are thrilled at the enthusiastic response, and happy to report that 181 backers supported the project at 111%! Kickstarter gave us a “Project We Love” badge, featured us on the home page, and included us in emails about their favorite art projects–thanks
The Tree of Life project (produced by the Space Song Foundation) sonifies 200-year data sets collected from live trees to create songs about the trees’ experience here on Earth. In this visualization/sonification, you can see the moments when our sensors detected fluctuations in the tree’s soil moisture (blue), temperature, (red), and light (yellow) during a
“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 to the JPL campus. Ms. Baho is an engineering student at NYU Abu Dhabi, and
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 the Space Song Foundation) was able to meet in the work room at the residency
Over the summer of 2019, Julia Christensen and musician/programmer Tom Hall created data sonification patches using Max/MSP. 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 documents a conversation between Fulcrum Arts’ AxS Incubator Resident Julia Christensen and programmer Tom Hall,
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 museum, inspiring the team to think about the artistic underpinnings of the project. The day
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 has allowed her to explore how upgrade culture impacts institutional operations at the scale of
