Janna Avner
Janna Avner creates oil paintings and video works that respond to new technologies and current events. Janna’s paintings depict digital art by working with refraction gradients and reflective mediums that imitate the glow of computer screens. Her future series will address the complexities of identity and origin through internet culture and virtual spaces.
Janna cofounded FEMMEBIT, a digital art festival celebrating female-identifying artists based in Los Angeles. Janna’s artworks and curations have been covered by Vice/Creators Project, Hyperallergic, LA Weekly, Artforum, and ArtNews. Janna has also been a guest speaker for UCLA’s Digital Media Arts Department (2017), and the New York Times School (2019). Her . writings on Artificial Intelligence were selected for “What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate, and Reinvent Our Future,” a 2017 best-of-anthology considered by Smithsonian Magazine as one of the best science books of the year. Janna graduated from Yale University in 2012 and is a Master of Arts candidate at California State University Northridge.
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