Julia Christensen is an artist from Kentucky currently based in Troy, NY.  Her work treads on the thin line between art and research.  She also likes to tread on most of the thin lines between various media, between the electronic and the non-electronic, and between audience and performer. 

Julia is currently involved with the project How Communities are Reusing the Big Box, an on-going project investigating the reuse of abandoned superstores. Julia lectures and shows video and photography work related to the research. She is working on a book about the project, which will be published by the MIT Press in 2007.

Julia has taught and lectured across academic fields, in departments of art and art history, electronic/digital media, architecture, law, and information technology. Currently she teaches at Pratt Institute's Upstate Campus at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum in Utica, NY. She has also taught at Stanford University in the Experimental Media Arts division, at the California College of the Arts in the Core Department, and at the State University of New York Albany in the graduate arts department. Julia received her BA in Integrated Art from Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. She received her MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, in Oakland, CA. She received her MFA in Electronic Arts at the iEAR Studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. 

Her new media, video and installation work has shown widely, including at the Lincoln Center in NY and at the San Francisco Art Institute in CA. Her work was recently included in the Turbulance/Eyebeam/Upgrade Retrospective of Net Art entitled "D.I.Y. or DIE," and in "Point of Purchase" at the DUMBO Arts Center in Brooklyn.

From 2000-2002 she participated as a musician in the Contemporary Performance Ensemble (Oakland, CA), directed by Fred Frith; she has studied composition with Fred Frith, Chris Brown, Maggi Payne and Pauline Oliveros. She has performed as a musician in such locations as 21 Grand and the Acme Observatory in Oakland, CA. Her performance work has also led her to be involved with the activist troupe The Yes Men.