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.

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 from media studies, she explores how entertainment shapes 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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