LACMA: Art+Technology Lab | Artist Julia Christensen works w/ NASA scientists on spaceship & art concepts
LACMA: Art+Technology Lab | Artist Julia Christensen works w/ NASA scientists on spaceship & art concepts
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LACMA: Art+Technology Lab | Artist Julia Christensen works w/ NASA scientists on spaceship & art concepts
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"It’s fitting that Upgrade Available works well as a book, considering its misgivings about technological obsolescence. It works so well in part because Christensen is an insightful writer — with a penchant for neologistic concepts such as “upgrade culture,” “technology time,” and “institution time” — and in part because the project itself, brimming with narrative and conceptual complexities, is perfectly suited to written discourse. The book format left me especially curious to experience the artworks in person."
"If he’s a sometimes luddite, let him find solace in artist Julia Christensen’s Upgrade Available, a new output from Dancing Foxes Press. The book calls into question our eagerness to constantly update our personal technology and how this thirst is interfering with our relationship to time. It’s charming and eerie."
Upgrade Available: Live and Illustrated On Earth Day, LACMA hosts a virtual presentation of artist Julia Christensen's latest project, Upgrade Available. She'll be in conversation with artist and curator Aria Dean and LACMA archivist Jessica Gambling. The event will be illustrated with images, videos and writings from the project and book of the same name, exploring how "upgrade culture" impacts our experience of time.