{"product_id":"upgrade-available-julia-christensen-9781733688925","title":"Upgrade Available","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTechnological evolution and obsolescence on Earth and in outer space, in a new project by artist Julia Christensen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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. In taking on this challenge, Christensen--a female pioneer redefining the intersection of art, technology, and outer space--must envision an artwork for an evolving, autonomously-upgrading spaceship headed toward a potentially habitable planet in another star system. Her years-long investigation into upgrade culture leads to design concepts that potentially transcend technological obsolescence altogether.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Christensen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1733688927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733688925\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dancing Foxes Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.70w x 0.60d","brand":"Julia Christensen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046165901567,"sku":"9781733688925","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aded838f-8982-46b8-a248-0fc6c9beacec.jpg?v=1684983017","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/upgrade-available-julia-christensen-9781733688925","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}