ARCHIVED OBSOLESCENCE

Digital photographsDimensions variableSeries of twelve2018-2019 As a fellow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art + Tech Lab, Julia Christensen began photographing obsolete ephemera in the LACMA archives. She took a selection of the ephemera to the Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Colorado in Boulder to upgrade the lost artifacts into…

TECHNOLOGY TIME

Digital photographsDimensions variableSeries of 12 photographs2015 We encode our electronics with our memory, identity, and legacy, creating complicated artifacts, and eventually, complicated trash. The relentless need to upgrade software and hardware to remain relevant has made it increasingly difficult to plan very far into the future, leading consumers to make short-sighted decisions that negatively impact…