Julia Christensen
Biography
From http://www.juliachristensen.com/
"Julia Christensen is an artist who works in video, photography, networked media, writing, sound arts, sculpture, installation, and performance. Her work has exhibited at galleries and museums internationally, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Carnegie Museum of Fine Arts in Pittsburgh, SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, and The Lincoln Center in NYC. Recent solo exhibitions include: Your Town Inc., (Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University and The Richmond Center at Western Michigan University) and Surplus Rising (Banvard Gallery at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University).
"Julia is the author of Big Box Reuse, published by the MIT Press in 2008. This book is a product of her ongoing investigation into how communities are renovating and reusing abandoned big box buildings. She is the leader of the Big Box Reuse Group, a consulting group that deals with the creative reuse of urban blight. Christensen's writing has been published in magazines such as Orion, Print, and Slate. Christensen's work has been written about in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bookforum, The New York Review of Books, Bomb, Afterall, and Dwell Magazine.
"Ms. Christensen is an active musician in the worlds of new and experimental music. She is the founder and director of WAM!: Women and Art Music Ensemble at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music."
