Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
with Jenny Odell
Monday, March 4, 2024 · 5 - 6:30 PM
***reposted from the Dresher Center***
Jenny Odell is a writer and artist based in Oakland, California. 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. She is compelled by new 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 her second book, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture, was published in 2023.
Odell’s 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 (NY). She has been an artist in residence at Recology SF (the dump), the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and the Montalvo Arts Center. From 2013 to 2021, Odell taught digital art at Stanford University.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Media and Communication Studies, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, and the Center for Social Science Scholarship.
In conversation with Jason Loviglio, Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Media and Communication Studies, UMBC
New York Times best-selling writer and artist Jenny Odell will explore how our painful relationship to time is inextricably connected not only to persisting social inequities but to the climate crisis, existential dread, and a lethal fatalism.
Odell’s 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 (NY). She has been an artist in residence at Recology SF (the dump), the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and the Montalvo Arts Center. From 2013 to 2021, Odell taught digital art at Stanford University.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Media and Communication Studies, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, and the Center for Social Science Scholarship.
