TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

julia@juliachristensen.com for more details April 19, 2007 Southern Illinois University "Big Box Reuse" Carbondal, IL April 6, 2007 University of Cincinnatti "Big Box Reuse" Cincinnatti, OH October 20, 2006 Cornell University Big Box Reuse Ithaca, NY

March 28, 2006 University of Southern Illinois Carbondale Artist Talk Carbondale, IL February 21, 2006 University of Virginia Artist Talk Charlottesville, VA
February 6, 2006 @ 5PM School of Architecture, University of Texas-Arlington 601 Nedderman Drive Arlington, TX

January 11, 2006 @ 7PM Upgrade! New Media Arts Forum JinJu Restaurant 5203 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL

November 17, 2005 University of Houston Art Department Houston, TX

November 16, 2005
International Interior Design Association Houston, TX
November 7, 2005 @ 2pm Lecture: How Design Affects Community Science and Technology Studies Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY November 1, 2005 @ 7PM Lecture: Big Box Reuse Center for Urban Pedagogy The National Arts Club NYC, NY October 28, 2005 @ 6PM Lecture: "Big Box Reuse" Contemporary Artists Center North Adams, MA October 10, 2005 @ 4:30PM Lecture: "Big Box Reuse + Other Projects" Boor Sculpture Studio State University of New York, Albany Albany, NY October 4 @ 2:30 PM Lecture: "Big Box Reuse + Other Projects" 1000 Broad Street, The Fishbowl Room School of the Arts Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA October 6/7, 2005
Lecture: "Big Box Reuse" Appalshop Arts Center Whitesburg, KY


September 27, 2005 @ 7PM Lecture: "How Communities are Reusing the Big Box" Urban Design Studio, University of Louisville
507 S. 3rd St. Louisville, KY September 21, 2005 @ 1PM Artist's Talk University of Louisville Art Department Louisville, KY

April 14, 2005 Lecture: "How Communities are Reusing the Big Box" Art Department, Stanford University Palo Alto, CA April 7, 2005 Lecture: "Collaborating with Strangers" Bard College Music Department, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY March 25, 2005 Lecture: "History, Community and Politics: Big Box Reuse in Our Commmunity" Law School, Russel Sage College Troy, NY March 23rd, 2005 @ 6pm Lecture: How Communities are Reusing the Big Box Architecture Lecture Series Rensselear Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY

February 23, 2005 Lecture: Photography and Architecture School of Architecture, Yale University New Haven, CT
Monday, November 15th,@ 8pm
New Spaces, New Cartographers
L.A. Forum on Architecture and Urban Design
The Mountain Bar           
Los Angeles, CA  
Thursday, November 11 @ 7pm
Danforth Lecture Hall
Mills College, Oakland, CA
November 10, 2004@ 2pm
University of California at Santa Cruz 
Santa Cruz, CA

Tuesday, October 12 @ 7pm Big Box Reuse Center for Land Use Interpretation 53 3rd St., Troy, NY





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RECENT ARTICLES


Metroland, 10/27/05, "Wide Open Spaces," by Jodi Ackerman Frank
The Louisville Courier-Journal, 9/25/05, "Artist Tours U.S. for 'big box' study," by Chris Poynter
Rensselaer Magazine, Summer 2005, "Recycling the Big Box," by Jodi Ackerman Frank 

The New York Times, 5/12/05, "Thinking Inside the Big Box," by Eve Kahn
(pdf of NY Times article here) 
(html of NY Times scanned/printed article here)
Yahoo pick of the week
 Interior Design Magazine, 12/2004, "Artist Studies Re-Use of 'Big Box',"by Meaghan O'Neill 
Center for Land Use Interpretation, Lay of the Land Newsletter, Summer 2004 

The Miami Herald, 7/10/05, "Thinking Inside the Big Box (Stores)," by Eve Kahn 

The San Diego Union-Tribune, 5/29/05, "Artist Thinks Inside the Big Box," by Eve Kahn
The Greenville News, 4/04/05, "Communities Struggle with Empty Big Box Stores," by Paul Alongi 
The Albany Times-Union, 3/23/05, "Finding Life in Void Big Box Stores Leave Behind," by Kenneth Aaraon (pdf) 
The Daily Illini, 03/16/05, "Urbana Plans New Use for Shopping Mall," by Nate Sandstrom 
The Beaumont Enterprise, 2/13/04, "Recycled Buildings," by Rachel Stone 
The Kentucky Standard, 6/11/04, "Empty Big Boxes Can Be Refilled," by Mark Boxley (pdf) 
The Box Tank, "Big Box, or Revolution?" 
Polar Inertia: journal of nomadic and popular culture, Nov./Dec. 2004 issue

Plenty Magazine, "Trying to FIt In: Will Wal-Mart's new look make it more appealing...?"
by Lisa Selin Davis, Oct/Nov 2005
"Big Box Reuse" Treehugger Journal


RADIO AND TELEVISION INTERVIEWS

October 1, 2005 @ 2-5 PM WMMT, Mountain Community Radio Interview + Guest DJ Appalshop Media Arts Center Whitesburg, KY September 27, 2005 @ 11AM Special Guest: "State of Affairs," NPR Louisville WFPL 98.3FM (stream available online)

September 13, 2005 @ 5PM EST Radio Interview: KHDX St.Louis, MO Earthworms: Environment, Education, Conversation (stream available online)

May 2, 2005 Radio Interview: Canadian Broadcast Corporation Ottawa, Canada
January 30, 2005 @ 6pm PST

90.7 WALX, Berkeley, CA
Live Interview with Michael Starve

GALLERY SHOWS September 8- October 23 Opening Reception: 5-8pm, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005 "Light Construction: New Video Work by Julia Christensen" Covi Galleries The Hite Art Institute Galleries Louisville, Kentucky September 3- October 23 Center for Photography at Woodstock Triennial of Photography and Related Media Woodstock, NY

Summer 2005 "Big Box Reuse: Thesis Exhibition" Center for Land Use Interpretation Northeast Regional Office, Troy, NY December 27-January 27 "Anne Barnes and Julia Christensen: New Work" The Sutherland Gallery Bardstown, KY
December 12, 2004
SNOWNOSHOW, iEAR Studios 
Digital Photography Prints 
West Hall, RPI Troy, NY