Janna Ahrndt
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Emerging Technologies
Intersectional Feminism, Wearables
Critical/Subversive Making
EDUCATION:
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
TEACHING EXPERIENCE & CERTIFICATES
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
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
CERTIFICATES
Certificate of Foundations in College Teaching, Purdue University, September 2018
Summer Course Design Institute, Purdue University, June 2018
COURSES TAUGHT
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
Service
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
Guest Lecturer/Artist Talks
#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
WORKSHOPS & Conferences
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
AWARDS & GRANTS
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
PUBLICATIONS
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.
CONTINUED LEARNING
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
EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
(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