We are so happy to report that we were invited to strike up a collaboration with this Joshua Tree, located near Hinkley, California at the Center for Land Use Interpretation‘s Desert Research Center. This is the first of two trees…
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…
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…
The dielectric property of a tree is the innate electrical property that runs through its organic matter, which can be activated by a transmissive ground station to turn the whole tree into a large, living antenna system. The dielectric properties…
“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…
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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