DISK FULL: Christine Bruening and Janna Ahrndt art exhibit

Welcome to the DISK FULL art exhibit featuring the incredible works of Christine Bruening and Janna Ahrndt! Join us at the Glassell Gallery for a one-of-a-kind experience where art meets technology. Explore the intersection of creativity and digital innovation through the unique pieces created by these talented artists. Don't miss out on this opportunity to immerse yourself in a world where art and technology collide!

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LSU College of Art & Design and LSU School of Art will present Disk Full: Christine Bruening and Janna Ahrndt from September 6 through October 19, 2025, in Glassell Gallery. This two-person exhibition and programming invite you to confront the deluge of our digital lives. In Disk Full, artists, academics, and friends Janna Ahrndt and Christine Bruening reflect on their correspondence, delving into the endless and sometimes absurd world of digital accumulation. From the graveyard of forgotten memes, bookmarked webpages, and countless data fragments we amass, they ask: What drives our compulsion to save, screenshot, and archive a universe we rarely revisit? Through a lens that's both critical and playfully irreverent, this exhibition unpacks the weight of the cloud as our attention spans continue to shrink. 

A free, public reception and artist talk is scheduled for Friday, September 19, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., with the artist Q&A at 5:30 p.m. In addition to public programming downtown, visiting artist Janna Ahrndt will give a public lecture on Wednesday, September 17, at 5:00 p.m. in Julian T. White Hall 103 on LSU’s campus. 

The “Faculty in Conversation Series” is structured to place LSU faculty voices “in conversation” with visiting artist peers to bring diverse perspectives on lived experiences, creative practices, and building artistic communities.  

Community Memory Workshop Series 

All workshops are free and open to all. 

DIY Servers and 3D Heirloom Scanning:  

Thursday, September 18, 5:30–7:30 p.m., Glassell Gallery with Prof. Christine Bruening & Visiting Artist Janna Ahrndt 

3D Heirloom Scanning & Printing:  

Sunday, September 28, 2–4 p.m., Glassell Gallery with Prof. Christine Bruening 

Drop-in Heirloom Scanning & Printing:  

Sunday, September 7, 2-4 p.m. (Free First Sunday) 

Saturday, September 13, 2-4 p.m. 

Sunday, September 14, 2–4 p.m. 

Saturday, September 27, 2–4 p.m. 

Sunday, September 28, 2–4 p.m. 

Saturday, October 4, 2–4 p.m. 

Sunday, October 5, 2–4 p.m. (Free First Sunday) 

Join LSU School of Art faculty and graduate students for Community Memory Workshops in September and October in conjunction with the exhibition, DISK FULL. In these workshops, we’ll consider the cultural weight of our digital remains while learning practical skills: using apps to 3D scan heirlooms and building DIY servers to create personal or community archives. 

Much of life now takes place online, from messages and photos to the digitalization of objects through 3D scanning apps. As our memories become less physical, we’re left with a pressing question: what happens to these digital histories when we pass? Artists and academics Janna Ahrndt and Christine Bruening invite participants to reimagine mourning, memory, and preservation in a hands-on workshop that explores these questions. Blending reflection with making, this workshop offers space to imagine how we might carry our memories forward in ways that are secure, meaningful, and truly our own. Selected scans will be printed and displayed in the exhibition DISK FULL until  October 19, 2025, at the Glassell Gallery, before being returned to the participants. 

This Community Memory Workshops Series is possible thanks to generous support from the Charles Lamar Family Foundation. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:   

Christine Bruening is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the relationship between popular culture and the cultural values embedded in entertainment. Her practice involves collecting, recontextualizing, and juxtaposing familiar media artifacts to prompt new ways of thinking about what we consume and why. Drawing on media studies, she examines how entertainment influences collective memory, identity, and desire. Christine holds a BFA in Sculpture from Penn State University and an MFA from the University of Michigan. She has exhibited and presented her work both nationally and internationally, engaging audiences through critical reflection and playful visual strategies. 

Janna Ahrndt is unable to focus, and her medium-agnostic art practice seems to reflect that fact, often making work utilizing creative coding, video, textiles, and altered household electronics. Born to a working-class family in Northern Indiana, their work follows themes of labor, the internet, politics, and gender. Janna received their MFA in Electronic and Time-Based Art from Purdue University in 2019 and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Maine, where they reside in a tiny house with their partner and menagerie of pets. Their latest fascination post-pandemic is contemplating ways the internet and machine learning are shaping death and dying rituals and mourning culture. Janna’s research and artwork have been exhibited in spaces such as the International Symposium of Electronic Art, the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, Melbourne, Australia, and recently at Fu:Bar Glitch Art Festival.  

LSU School of Art Alfred J. Glassell Gallery Hours  

Tuesday–Wednesday: 12–5 p.m.  

Thursday–Friday 12–7 p.m.  

Saturday–Sunday 12–5 p.m.  

Closed Mondays and between exhibitions.   

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