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WAM! is a group of women playing experimental music written by living women composers. The mission of WAM! is to bring a voice to the women involved in new music at Oberlin, promoting and giving a platform for the talented young women who are involved in this genre. The mission is also to increase public…

Land Arts in an Electronic Age is a course developed by Julia Christensen at Oberlin College. During the class in 2008, Julia and Matthew Coolidge of the Center for Land Use Interpretation led students on a field trip to Gary, Indiana. While in Gary, the class explored the steelscape of the surrounding area in order…

Julia Christensen produced the The Margin Release Lecture Series from 2007-2011 as a part of her endowed chair at Oberlin College and Conservatory, The Henry Luce Professorship of the Emerging Arts. The goal of the series was to bring artists, musicians, thinkers, and makers to campus to bridge thought across academic and artistic disciplines. Artists…

FMemory was a collaboration between Michael Trigilio of Neighborhood Public Radio and the students in Julia’s Transmission Arts Class. Julia and each of her students built analog FM transmitters. Everyone made recordings of themselves telling the story of a memory that they have, ranging from food to dreams to the parties that they had last week.…

Medium/Message was a new media course Christensen taught between 2007-2011.  The projects examined how art interfaces with the public sphere, and how artists can use technology to subvert and shift critical issues.

ADVANCED MEDIA PROJECTS is a course Christensen offers every spring.  This course is a pre-cursor to Senior Studio and Thesis, the Oberlin Studio Art Department’s capstone course. Students design a semester-long art project, and we have three artists from the outside world come to critique the students’ work at points throughout the semester.  These critiques…

PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP (TECH 204) is a course in the Technology in Music and Related Arts department at the Oberlin Conservatory.

This is the capstone course for all Studio Art Majors at Oberlin College.