PBS, SoCal, “Remote Sensing: Explorations Into the Art of Detection,” Fusing Art + Science, 3/20/25
CNET News, “NASA Scientists Hope Singing Trees Will Help Us Reach Another Planet,” by Leslie Katz, November 16, 2021
Pin-Up Magazine, “Data Recovery,” by Drew Zeiba, Spring/Summer 2021
Artnet, “This artist wanted to teach aliens about life on Earth. So, she teamed up with NASA scientists to send artwork into outer space,” by Brian Boucher, December 8, 2020
Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Oberlin artist Julia Christensen plans project for a space mission 4.2 light years from Earth,” by Steve Litt, December 6, 2020
Brooklyn Rail, “Julia Christensen’s Upgrade Available,” by Hall Rockefeller, October 2020
Los Angeles Magazine, “Outmoded Tech is Making Mountains of E-Waste. Is There Any Stopping ‘Upgrade Culture’?” by Liz Ohenesian, September 2020
Glasstire, “Not ‘If’ but ‘When’: An Artist Looks into Upgrade Culture,” by Lydia Pyne, July 19, 2020
Atmos Magazine, “Trash Talk with Artist Julia Christensen,” by Joseph Akel, May 2020
Hyperallergic, “An Artist Investigates the Effects of Technological Obsolescence,” by Elisa Wouk Almino, April 21, 2020
Art Newspaper, “‘Longevity feels a bit elusive at the moment,’: artist Julia Christensen explores upgrade culture in a new book and postponed show,” by W Ludel, April 13, 2020
Detroit Public Television/Great Lakes Now, “Great Lakes artists work with water, weather, and love,” by James Proffitt, 2/1/19
Crescendo, Interlochen Alumni Magazine, “Obsolete and out-of-this-world: the art of alumni Julia Christensen,” by Melissa Luby, January 2019
Pacific Standard, “The fine art of thin ice,” by Jillian Steinhauer, December 2018
Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Artist Julia Christensen reveals Lake Erie’s winter magnificence in show at SPACES,” by Steve Litt, 2/4/18
NPR, Great Lakes Today, “New Art Exhibit ‘Waiting for a Break’ on Lake Erie,” reported by Elizabeth Miller, 12/15/17
Cleveland Plain Dealer, “SPACES Takes on Trump’s First 100 Days in Witty Artistic Critiques of immigration policy,” by Steven Litt, 5/7/17
Bomb Magazine, “Julia Christensen,” by Kris Paulsen, March 27, 2014
Village Voice,“Best in Show,”review of It’s the Political Economy, Stupid, by Robert Shuster, February 8, 2012
Afterall Journal, “Adaptive Reuse: New response to the Housing Crisis,” by Claire Barliant, Spring 2010
Kalamazoo Gazette, “Exhibition at Western Michigan University Looks at Urban Landscapes,” by Rebecca Bakken, February 14, 2010
New York Times Magazine, “Repurpose-Driven Life,” by Rob Walker, Sunday Times Magazine (Annual Architecture Edition), 6/14/09
BookForum, “Alien Nation,” by Tom Vanderbilt, March/April 2009
New York Times, “Art Review: From Malls to Homes to Cars, the Transitioning of the Suburbs,” by Benjamin Gennochio, 4/16/09
New York Review of Books, “Do Schools Have to Be Boring?” by Alison Lurie, 12/18/08
New York Magazine, “Approval Matrix,” (“Highbrow” and “Brilliant” Quadrant),12/08/08
New York Times, Design Op-Ed, “What Will Save the Suburbs?” byAllison Arieff, 11/9/08
Washington Post, “Big Box and Beyond,” by Joel Garreau, 11/16/08
Cleveland Plain Dealer, “The Modern Art of Big Box Renovation,” by Steven Litt, 11/16/08
NPR, All Things Considered, “Once A Wal-Mart,”reported by Elizabeth Blair, 10/20/08
Pittsburgh City Paper, “A new art exhibition looks at life after retail for abandoned big box stores,” by Charles Rosenblum, 9/4/08
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Art Preview: Artist shows how communities are reusing big box stores,” by Patricia Lowry, 9/3/08
New York Times, “Thinking Inside the Big Box,” by Eve Kahn, NYC, NY,
Joshua Tree Antenna Reveals Unheard Symphony (PBS SoCal, 2025)
Artist tracks Elon Musk’s Satellites (PBS SoCal, 2025)
Artist Julia Christensen Works with NASA Scientists (LACMA, 2019)
Waiting for a Break: A Project By Julia Christensen (Oberlin College, 2017)
Media Artist Julia Christensen Turns Old iPhones Into Art (Creative Capital, 2014)