Jenny Odell is a writer and artist who taught digital art, internet art, and digital/physical design in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University from 2013 to 2021. Her work generally involves acts of close observation, whether it's birdwatching, collecting screen shots, researching trash, or trying to parse bizarre forms of e-commerce to search for frameworks that allow us to perceive something new about everyday reality. Her first book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, was published in 2019 and was a New York Times best-selling book. Her second book, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, was published in 2023. Her essays and commentary have been featured in a range of venues, including the Atlantic, the New York Times, and Sierra magazine, among other outlets. Her visual work has been exhibited at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, the New York Public Library, the Marjorie Barrick Museum (Las Vegas), Les Rencontres D'Arles, Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Fotomuseum Winterthur, La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris), the Lishui Photography Festival (China), and apexart (New York). She has been an artist in residence at Recology San Francisco (otherwise known as the San Francisco dump), the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and the Montalvo Arts Center.
