janna.ahrndt@maine.edu
260-909-0713
Emerging Technologies Intersectional Feminism, Wearables Critical/Subversive Making
MFA Electronic & Time-Based Art 2019
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Rueff School of Design, Art and Performance
BFA Linguistics: Sociolinguistics
College of Liberal Arts
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Minors: German, Fine Art, Political Science
Assistant Professor of Art University of Southern Maine August 2023 - Present
Lecturer Digital Art & Area Head Indiana University Eskenazi School of Art Architecture and Design July 2022 - May 2023
Visiting Assistant Professor Digital Art Indiana University Eskenazi School of Art July 2019 - May 2022
University of Southern Maine
ART 222 Intro to Digital Art and Design Fall 2023 – present
ART299 Being Online: Identity and the Internet Spring 2024 & Spring 2026
ART 321 Time-Based Art Spring 2024 - Fall 2025
ART471/472 Advanced Digital Art and Photography Fall 2023 - present
Pop 100 Labor Movements and Public Art (pop-up course w/ scontras center for Labor)
Indiana University
SOAD-N130 Digital Imagery for Non-majors, Fall/Spring 2019 - 2022
SOAD-S210 Digital Art Survey, Fall/Spring 2019 – 2022
SOAD-S310/410/510 Interactive Multimedia, Fall/Spring 2019 - 2022
Purdue University
AD 105 Foundations of 2D Design, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2017
AD 233 Electronic Media Studio, Fall 2017, Fall 2018
AD 304 Video Art, Spring 2019
Women & Gender Studies Council University of Southern Maine September 2023 - Present
Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee Indiana University July 2022 - May 2023
Digital Art Area Coordinator Indiana University July 2022 - May 2023
Faculty Advisor Creative Coding Student Organization with The Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering August 2019 – 2023
Labor Heritage Foundation Power Hour Podcast - Recorded March 26, 2026
Crewe Center For the Arts Artist Talk Janna Ahrndt does not dream of Labor Oct 2025
DISK FULL Artist Lecture LSU Galeries Sept 2025
Jay Maine Union Hall Guest Lecture Art and Social Action Sept 2025
Guest Lecture At Louisiana State Univerisity Fall 2025
Digital Art Seminar, Creative Coding, Animation Studio
New Hypertext Narratives, Florida State University, Spring 2025
AI and Mourning Practices, SMAIDS AI Conference, University of Southern Maine, Fall 2024
#OurStoryIsOne: A panel discussion and community art-making event, University of Southern Maine Portland Campus, February 2024
Curator/Co-Presenter Multiple Bodies is live online as part of the inaugural launch of Bridge Journal's Bridge Video Festival, Chicago, IL, October 2023
A-100 Artist Talk Indiana University
Purdue University AD326 Physical Computing Artist Talk
Guest Lecture Fashion Design E-Textiles Indiana University
Guest At Seminar Fibers Department Indiana University
Guest At Seminar Print Making Indiana University
Indiana Arts Commission Homecoming Conference Speaker (virtual talk – covid)
Lead Q&A Session with guest lecturer Christiane Paul and DART students Indiana University
SECAC 2026 Interwoven - TBD
Digital Sentiments Workshop Glassell Gallery Baton Rouge
Digital Sentiments: Transforming Loss and Memory, ISEA International, Seoul Korea, 2025
Digital Rageroom Ethics of Breaking Stuff: Glitch art workshop Scontras Center For Labor Just Transitions Summit April 2025
Fu:Bar Glitch Art Festival , Zagreb Croatia, November 2024
E-Textile Spring Break, Vicksburg Michigan, March 2022
E-Textiles workshop Wabash College of Liberal Arts, January 2022
Digital E-textile workshop videos for Northeast Of North, Dundee Scotland 2020
Guest Workshop IU Fibers Seminar E-Textiles, Fall 2020
International Symposium Electronic Art 2020 Make Floors Great Again, July 2020
CICA New Media Art Conference (NMAC) 2020 as an “Exhibitor.”, 2020
CO2 P@tch: Plastic Science Gallery Dublin, October 2019
NEON: Re@ct Symposium University of Scotland Dundee, Dundee Scotland, October 2019
Science Gallery Dublin Ireland P@tch workshop C02 monitoring E-textiles,November 2019
P@tch Workshop Science Gallery Melbourne, July 2019
Timely Warning P@tch March Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, March 2019
P@tch: Color Change LED Purdue University, October 2018
2019 Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Technology Conference Poster Session University of California Santa Barbara, February 2019
MAKE AIGA Design Educators Conference Graduate Student Forum Presenter Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, June 2018
MEIF Grant Media, Arts, and Technology (MAT): Designing Digital Collaborations across the University of Maine System, Fall 2023
NEoN Dundee Scotland Funding to film video tutorials for workshop, August 2020
Indiana Arts Commission On-Ramp Grant, January 2019
Digital Sentiments: Transforming Loss and Memory, ISEA International, Seoul Korea, 2025
CICA Museum South Korea, Into The Clouds 2021
Deconstruct and Dissent: Subversive Technologies for the Modern Militant was selected after a peer review panel to be published in The Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) in October 2020.
Dark Matter Critical Theory Course, School of Poetic Computing New York, NY, Summer 2020
Machine Learning 101 with Python, Spring 2020, IU Center of Excellence for Women & Technology
Solo Exhibition Indiana University Galleries - TBD
Seattle CoCA (First Prize) We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thang 2025 Annual Exhibition Juried by Joseph DeLappe
Solo Exhibition Janna Ahrndt Does Not Dream of Labor, Crewe Center for the Arts, 2025
Art Collective Shrek’s Burden – Louisiana State University Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA, Fall 2025
DeadWeb Lachrymatory, solo show, CICA Museum, Seoul South Korea, 2025
(t)here but not, Art Department Show, Gorham, ME, Spring 2024
Multiple Bodies, Co-Curator Bridge Journal Film Festival, Chicago, IL, 2023
Solo Exhibition Wabash College Coding Me Softly, January-May 2022
Indiana University Faculty Show Hypothetically Speaking, Fall 2021
ONGOING MATTER Sp2020 Maxwell Hall, Spring 2020
Indiana University Faculty Show 2020 Make Floors Great Again, Fall 2020
Maybe our Wasted Past Show with NOISE at the I Fell, 2020
CICA New Media Art Conference (NMAC), January 2020
House Party Bloomington SoapBox Karaoke, September 2019
Indiana University Faculty Show 2019 P@tch, Fall 2019
P@tch Disposable The Science Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, September 2019
P@tch PLASTIC The Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland & National Tour, June 2020
Deconstruct and Dissent, Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, March 2019
LORE: Exploring Fear, #Domesticqueen, Spectro Art Space, Bridgewater, VA November 2018
The Dark Arts II, #Domesticqueen, SquidInk Gallery, Antioch, CA, October 2018
Midwestern Photography Exhibition, I don’t understand the female gaze 2 & 3, IU Downtown Gallery, Kokomo IN, October 2018
-97.076585 40.408170: An Exhibition at Ross Camp, Peeping Tom 2.0, West Lafayette, IN November 2017
Past Present and Future, The Bindery, Glitch, Lafayette, IN February 2017
Creative Challenge 2016, Pulse Keimyung University, South Korea January 2017
Westwood Juried Art Exhibition, Purdue University Presidential Estate, West Lafayette, IN, March 2015