Jenny Odell
Artist, writer and educator
Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist and writer who wrote How to Do Nothing, a New York Times best-selling book about resisting the attention economy.
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American Born 1986 in San Francisco, United States
About Jenny Odell
Jenny Odell is an American artist, writer and educator based in Oakland, California. She was born in 1986. She has taught Internet art and digital and physical design at Stanford University. Her writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, The Paris Review and The Believer. Her art has been shown around the world, and one project took the form of a mural at a Google data center in rural Oklahoma. Residencies she has held include the Internet Archive, the San Francisco Planning Department and Recology SF, the city's dump. Her books in the BookBits catalog are How to Do Nothing and Saving Time.