Petra Klusmeyer, digital media and sound artist, is currently a Teaching Researcher of Sound Studies at the University of the Arts, Bremen. She has completed a Master of Fine Arts in Time Arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999.

Her work creates an architecture of sound and image associations. Sonic glitches and fragments are reorganized into a sounding detritus of culture. As post-graduate student with SMARTlab, University of East London, she conducts research in the area of Sound Arts in the Expanded Field.

Her work has been internationally performed and exhibited such as in 2008 Not Berlin and Not Shanghai, Guangxi Arts Institute Nanning, China; 2006, Dislocate, Trampoline, Tokyo; 2006 Terra Cognita, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen; 2002, Creation in Movement, Canard Galeria Central, Mexico City; 2002, Music in Me, GAK Bremen; 2001, x-tract: Chicago Sounds, Podewil Berlin; 1999, Groove, Pit &Wave, ZKM Karlsruhe.

She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards such as The Joan Mitchell Foundation Stipend, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago Trustee Scholarship and the 2000 John Quincy Adams Fellowship. Her sound works are published on Staalplaat, Boxmedia and Experimental Sound Studio Chicago.