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who is jenny odell, you ask? Jenny Odell is a Bay Area native/captive. Having studied English at Berkeley and design at The New School and the San Francisco Art Institute, she shortly thereafter found herself working for the man but maintaining an artist alter ego by night. Her work has been featured at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Google Headquarters, and Les Rencontres D'Arles in France. It's also turned up in KQED's Gallery Crawl, the NPR Picture Show, Pop-up Magazine, Rhizome, Gizmodo, Design Sponge, and ESPN Magazine. Abroad, her work has been featured in Die Zeit, NEON Magazine, Le Soir, Elephant Magazine, and most bizarrely, a Belgian TV guide that came in the mail with an assortment of gorilla stickers. Prints of her work are available by request and on the always-reputable 20x200.com.

jenny enjoys mysteriously free blue bottle coffee, noise-canceling headphones (for optimal satellite traveling), planes, prints from 20x200 (for cubicle-boringness-abatement), the good folks at mauve? gallery and Conveyor Arts, her bike ("Mr. Seedless Watermelon"), the likes of Jon Rafman, Penelope Umbrico, and Clement Valla, dance parties, thoughtful socks, irrational travels, David Shrigley cartoons, Constant Dullaart's effect tests found on VHS tapes and DVD screensaver reenactments, fellow artists/friends Daniel Yovino, Carissa Potter, Lisa Congdon, and Luca Antonucci, having a New Yorker planner and not writing in it, Walter Benjamin, wordless books, painfully mundane Frederick Wiseman documentaries and documentaries about powerful women who happen to be insane, Johnny Trunk's podcasts of library music and 70s era Timex jingles, and this piece by Jasper Johns.

someday there will be an iphone app for you to call people...
WITH YOUR MIND
but until then, drop Jenny a line at 408.420.6393 or at jennitaur (at) gmail (dot) com.