Website/Blog/YouTube/ or Viemeo site
https://jannaahrndt.com/
When and how have you participated at SIGGRAPH Conferences? (exhibits, talks, panels, performance, screenings). OK if you have not participated.
I have not yet! I heard about this organization at ISEA
Are you a member of ACM SIGGRAPH?
No
Have you shown art in any SIGGRAPH Art Shows?
No
Have you shown in any SIGGRAPH Animation Screenings?
No
What countries do you work in?
United States
Short Bio
Janna Ahrndt 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.
Janna is part of a wave of new media artists rejecting the notion that craft and technology are directly opposed. My work explores how deconstructing everyday technologies, or even making them for yourself, can be used to question larger oppressive systems and create a space for participatory political action. My activist and social art practice blur the lines between the materiality of craft and the digital realm of new media technologies to create socio-political interventions. I have presented my research on the use of DIY electronics as a medium for participatory political art at ISEA 2019 in Gwangju, South Korea, and facilitated workshops in collaboration with the Science Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, and the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland.
