Julia Christensen is an artist and writer whose work explores systems of technology, landscape, time, and change. She is President of the Space Song Foundation, a non-profit started by visionary artists and scientists to promote long-term thinking at the intersection of art, science, and design on Earth and in outer space.   Their primary project is the Tree of Life, which consists of  terrestrial trees singing a data-duet with an orbiting spacecraft designed to evolve and operate for 200 years.       

Christensen  is author of the books Upgrade Available (Dancing Foxes Press), which looks at the long-term impact of upgrade culture, and Big Box Reuse (MIT Press), which investigates the civic reuse of corporate architecture across the United States. Her articles are included in a range of publications, including Cabinet and Hyperallergic. 

Her work has been exhibited internationally at ArtCenter College of Design, Walker Art Center, Feldman Gallery, SPACES, among other venues. 

You can read interviews with Christensen at Apollo Magazine, Atmos Magazine, The Art Newspaper, and Bomb Magazine. You can read more about her work in The New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Magazine, and Pacific Standard Magazine. 

Christensen's work has received support from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Art and Tech Lab, Creative Capital, MacDowell Colony, and the Guggenheim Foundation. 

She is the Eva and John Young-Hunter Professor of Studio Art at Oberlin College. 

This website is currently experiencing technical difficulties, along with Christensen's project sites. You can check back for a more media-rich experience at a later date. You can reach her via email.