The detailed history is meant to bring attention to resources involved in both the products' production and consumption. The archive is accessible online and much of the content is pulled from the internet, such as Google street views of manufacturing plants and videos of commercials for products.
Much of her art exists within and pulls from the Internet this is no exception. Odell conducted in-depth research into the manufacturing, distribution, popularity, and use of each object. The residency culminated in an exhibition of her work: The Bureau of Suspended Objects, a detailed archive of objects scavenged and selected at the dump. In 2015, Odell was artist-in-residence at Recology SF, otherwise known as the San Francisco dump.
Jenny Odell's desk during her residency at Recology SF I often say that medium is context Part of the reason I work this way is because I find existing things infinitely more interesting than anything I could possibly make. Odell has described where this approach comes from, Many of her artistic projects re-use existing objects or images and put them in context, for example images from Google Earth and Google Maps. Odell's work consists of acts of close observations such as bird watching, collecting screenshots, or trying to parse bizarre forms of e-commerce. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2008 with a degree in English Literature and received her MFA in Design + Technology from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010. Odell was born in San Francisco and grew up in Cupertino, California. She wrote The New York Times best-selling book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (2019). She taught Internet art and digital/physical design at Stanford University from 2013 to 2021. Jenny Odell (born 1986) is an American multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in Oakland, California.
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