Jenny Odell is a Bay Area native / captive with an undergraduate degree in English Literature from UC Berkeley and a graduate degree in Design+Technology from San Francisco Art Institute; she currently teaches design and internet art at Stanford University. Odell's work mines online information and imagery, usually including Google Maps, in order to approach infrastructure and highlight the physical dimensions of our modern, networked existence. Because her practice involves collecting, tagging and cataloguing, Odell has often been compared to a natural scientist – specifically, a lepidopterist. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including Les Rencontres D'Arles, Arts Santa Monica, Fotomuseum Antwerpen, La Gaîté lyrique, the Lishui Photography Festival (China), the Made in NY Media Center, Apexart (NY), East Wing (Dubai), and the Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA. It's also turned up in TIME Magazine's LightBox, The Atlantic, The Economist, WIRED, and a couple of Gestalten books. In the summer of 2015, Odell was an artist in residence at Recology, the San Francisco waste processing center; in the winter of 2015, she was in residence at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, also in San Francisco.

Daniels Sessions aims to explore new and alternative viewpoints on architectural practice and research. The series features speakers who present unconventional perspectives and work from both inside and outside of the discipline. Daniels Sessions aims to provoke thought and generate discussion in a less formal setting.