CURRICULUM VITAE

PETRA KLUSMEYER

 

EDUCATION

2009

PhD candidate with SMARTlab, University of East London

MFA 1999
(Honors)

Time Arts Studio Program
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Post-Baccalaureate 1997

Time Arts Studio Program
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Film Workshop 1995

New York University

BFA 1993
(summa cum laude)

Graphic Design
Arizona State University, School of Art

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2010

Residency Dartington Gallery as part of OPEN PROCESS series curated by Helen Pritchard and Gillian Wylde, University College Falmouth, Dartington Campus

2008 - PRESENT

Curatorial practice: SONIC PERIPHERIES at Gallery Wassermühle, Artist-in-Residency Stuhr-Heiligenrode, is a biannual series of experimental sound art and music since December 2008

2008

Artist-in-Resident at The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida Residence#130 with Carsten Nicolai

2007

Short-list candidate for the tenure-track faculty position for
Audio Arts and Acoustics at Columbia College Chicago

2003 - PRESENT

Teaching Reseacher Sound Studies University of the Arts
(Hochschule für Künste) Bremen, International Program of Study
in Digital Media and Integrated Design

2000

Graphic Designer at Thirst, Chicago

1998

Teaching Assistant, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
First Year Program: Film, Video, Sound

1993 - 1996

Graphic Designer at Chermayeff & Geismar, New York City

 

GRANTS/AWARDS

2008

The Joan Mitchell Foundation Stipend

2001 - 2006

Künstlerhaus Bremen Artist Studio Stipend

2000

John Adams Merit Award Fellowship
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1997 - 1999

SAIC Trustee Scholarship
Merit Tuition Scholarship for the complete Master of Fine Arts

1989 - 1993

Regents Scholarship Arizona State University
Merit Tuition Scholarship for the complete Bachelor of Fine Arts

1993, 1992

Nelson and Russell Scholarship
Arizona State University

1993

Ken White Scholarship
Arizona State University

 

CONCERTS/EXHIBITIONS (Selection)

2008

Not Berlin and Not Shanghai, Permanent Fragments
Guangxi Arts Institute Nanning, China

2007

Berlin Skin, The Platform International Animation Festival Portland
in collaboration with Kim Collmer (Animation)

2007

Lichtwelten, Arizona Museum for Youth in collaboration with
Kim Collmer (Video)

2004

terra cognita?, Pandora's Box
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen

2004

Environmental Excursions, Windraeder
subspace contemporary art, Berlin in collaboration with
Rebekka Brunke (Film)

2002

Listen.ing: SoundEvent, 10 Years Künstlerhaus Bremen

2002

Here Life Works Differently, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes: Creation in Movement Cenart Galeria Central, Mexico City, Centro Cultural Casa Principal, Veracruz; interactive audiovisual installation in collaboration with Gabriela Monroy

2002

Music in Me, Gesellschaft Aktueller Kunst Bremen

2001

x-tract Chicago Sound Festival, Podewil, Berlin

2001

Between Image and Sound, Garage, Stralsund

2001

Multiples, Duplikat 00
NFA Space & Bodybuilder Sportsman Gallery, Chicago

1999

Groove, Pit & Wave: Concerts around Radio, Turntables, CDs: Festival der Speicherung und Übertragung, Kunst und Technik
Kunst und Technik Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe

 

DISCOGRAPHY

2010

SOUNDART RADIO 102.5FM (University College Falmouth, Dartington Campus) Mapping out the Sonic Unconscious: Discussion and Sound Works emerging from the search for the sonic unconscious. Part of OPEN PROCESS Residency at Dartington Gallery; with participation from Ariane Delaunois, David Strang, Joe Scarffe, Sebastian Hau Walker.

2009

Permanent Fragments
Petra Klusmeyer

2001

Pandora’s Box, collaboration with composer Olivia Block
BoxMedia Chicago

2000

Duplikat 00, New Works 2000 (Edition)
Petra Klusmeyer

2000

BONES, Works by Chicago sound artists
Experimental Sound Studio Chicago

2000

A Manual; BwO (Body without Organs)
Staalplaat Amsterdam

2000

pre_next_pop
Microwave (Staalplaat)

1999

Simmer
Microwave (Staalplaat)

1999

Chicago Electronic Music Compilation 1999, Karnevalsmaske
BoxMedia Chicago

1999

Master-Thesis Trilogy
Akousma (or 11.000 Virgins), Chronotope (Time-Image 8’30), Chroma (Lichtzwang)
Petra Klusmeyer

 

REFERENCES

Nicolas Collins

Professor, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Chief-in-Editor Leonardo Music Journal
112 South Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60603
ncollins@saic.edu

Andrea Polli

Director, Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media (IFDM)
and Mesa Del Sol Chair of Digital Media
IFDM c/o College of Fine Arts
UNM Center for the Arts, Bldg 62 MSC04-2570
ABQ, NM 87131
apolli@unm.edu

Mona Schieren

Curator, Teaching Researcher at The University of the Arts Bremen
Speicher XI 8, 28217 Bremen
m.schieren@hfk-bremen.de

 

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