Claudia Westermann




Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

ISEA Bio(s) Available:


  • ISEA2022

    Claudia Westermann (Ph.D.) is an artist and architect, licensed with the German Chamber of Architects, and a senior associate professor in architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. She holds postgraduate degrees in architecture and media art and obtained a Ph.D. from CAiiA, Planetary Collegium, for her research on a poetics of architecture, titled ‘An experimental research into inhabitable theories’. Her works have been widely exhibited and presented, including at the Venice Biennale (Architecture), the Moscow International Film Festival, ISEA Symposium for the Electronic Arts, the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, and most recently at the 2019 Yanping Art Harvest in Fujian, China.

    ISEA2014

    Claudia Westermann, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, CN

    ISEA2002

    Claudia Westermann: 1971, Heidelberg, Germany. Architecture studies in Karlsruhe, Tampere (Finland). Architect. Postgraduate studies in media art at the Karlsruhe College for Design. Works for sound and space, including involvement in realization of the Muzarc CD-ROM on music and architecture. Her City- four images was shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2000) within the “CittA Terzo Millenio”. Involvement with physical modeling for digital sound and image creation at the Karlsmhe Center for Art and Media-Technology (ZKM); creation here of the audio-visual work Widerhall/-shOwobles and btd x, which have been shown at several international festivals. Westermann belongs to the Syndicate mailing-list administration.


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