Jenny Odell
Oakland artist and writer; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time.
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- Jenny Odell is an American artist, writer and teacher based in Oakland, California.
- She taught internet art and digital and physical design at Stanford from 2013 to 2021.
- Her book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (2019) was a New York Times best seller.
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock followed in 2023.
Key facts
- Born
- 1986, San Francisco; grew up in Cupertino1
- Based in
- Oakland, California1
- Books
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (2019); Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (Random House, March 2023)1
- Taught
- Internet art and digital/physical design, Stanford University, 2013 to 20211
- Residencies
- Recology SF, the San Francisco dump (2015), which became The Bureau of Suspended Objects; Internet Archive (2017)1
- Education
- BA in English literature, UC Berkeley (2008); MFA in Design + Technology, San Francisco Art Institute (2010)1
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