This is the third video update with LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant recipient Julia Christensen. Since 2017, the artist has been working with employees at Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Innovation Foundry (now, The Space Song Foundation) to envision an artwork…
The Endeavor Toward Technological Advancement and its Impact on our Lives; a zoom presentation sponsored by ArtCenter and Fulcrum Arts as a part of the Leonardo/LASER series. Christensen describes her ongoing artwork about “upgrade culture,” which led to her involvement…
A video describing the history of Tree of Life project, by the Space Song Foundation. This silent video was included in Julia Christensen’s exhibition at ArtCenter. This video premiered at Julia Christensen’s solo exhibition, “Upgrade Available,” at ArtCenter College of…
In the October 2020 issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Hall Rockefeller reviews Christensen’s book, Upgrade Available. The entire article can be read HERE. “Through her fellowship at LACMA’s Art + Tech Lab, Christensen began working with NASA scientists to design…
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.
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…
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