Upgrade Available - Julia Christensen

Technological Evolution And Obsolescence On Earth And In Outer Space, In A New Project By Artist Julia Christensenthis Volume Documents An Ongoing Investigation By Artist Julia Christensen (born 1976) Into How Our Relentless Upgrade Culture -the Perceived Notion That We Need To Constantly Upgrade Our Electronics To Remain Relevant-fundamentally Impacts Our Experience Of Time. In A Personal Narrative Interspersed With Related Interdisciplinary Artwork And Conversations With Experts From Different Fields (other Artists, Archivists, Academics), Christensen Takes Readers Along A Path From The International E-waste Industry To Institutional Archives, Eventually Leading Her To Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (jpl).at Jpl, Christensen Began A Dialog With A Group Of Exo-planetary Scientists, Engineers And Machine Learning Experts To Develop Long-lived Space Mission Concepts That Include An Update Of The Voyager Spacecrafts' 1977 Golden Record, To Be Embedded On A Hypothetical Future Interstellar Spacecraft. She And The Scientists Are Designing An Artwork Generated By An Extraterrestrial System That Tells A Distinctly New Story Of Life On Earth.