In 2018, Christensen spent a week in residence at the Media Archaeology Lab (MAL) at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She brought hard copies from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s institutional archives to explore the possibilities of upgrading archival material using the range of obsolete hardware available at the MAL. Upgrades were made,…
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UPGRADE TO PROXIMA B
Julia Christensen is currently working with scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to develop an artwork for an interstellar spacecraft concept that would travel to Proxima B, a planet in the Alpha Centauri system, 4.2 lightyears from the planet Earth. The spacecraft is envisioned to launch in 2069, and it will take approximately 40 years to…