Janna Avner creates oil paintings that respond to new technologies and current events. Embracing inclusive, grass roots, and disciplinary approaches to the philosophy behind art, Janna believes artists can help shape emerging technologies through cultural analyses beyond older academic pedagogies. Janna was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Paris Review. 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. 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).