Projects have included performance lectures, installations, video works, and net art. They 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.
- 2019 seats for seeing
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- 1998 blue room
The catalogue is under construction.
Art in Public Space
07.2021 Westermann, C. and S. Deng with Y. Yao, S. Wang, H. Gao and Z. Qin, “Reweaving
Shuangta” (educational project, installation in public space), Suzhou, Shuangta, in
the framework of Exploring the Histories of Shuangta: Heritage and Community, July
04, 2021–July 21, 2021.
11.2019-present Westermann, C. with A. Brillhart, F. Y. Chen, Y. Dong, O. Nanayakkara, T. Wortmann
(team members listed in alphabetical order), “Seats for Seeing” – installation in
public space, Beikeng village, Yanping district in Fujian province, China.
1998 Westermann, C., “blue room” – temporary multi-media installation in public space,
Karlsruhe, Germany.
Work in Exhibitions and Festivals
2021 Westermann, C. and S. Deng with Y. Yao, S. Wang, H. Gao and Z. Qin, “Reweaving
Shuangta” (educational project, art installation) exhibited within the framework of
“Exploring the Histories of Shuangta: Heritage and Community” at Suzhou Design
Week, December 3 – 7, 2021.
2021 Westermann, C. and S. Deng with Y. Yao, S. Wang, H. Gao and Z. Qin, “Reweaving
Shuangta” (educational project, art installation) exhibited at XJTLU Design School
at ADE Future Lab, Shanghai, November 28 - December 5, 2021. With catalogue
entry.
2021 Westermann, C., invited by Clarissa Ribeiro to contribute a ’contaminant’ (video) to
her Data-Confluences (2021) exhibition at the Re-Fest 2021 Virtual Gallery, UCLA
Art | Sci Center, March 12 – May 1, 2021, online, Los Angeles, USA.
2019-2020 Westermann, C. with A. Brillhart, F. Y. Chen, Y. Dong, O. Nanayakkara, T. Wortmann
(team members listed in alphabetical order), “Seats for Seeing” – installation
in public space, in: 2019 China Yanping Art Harvest, November 30, 2019 - February
29, 2020, Fujian, China.
2014 Westermann, C., “Inhabitable Theories Exhibited” – multi-media installation, exhibited
in: Shared Territories, an international exhibition of XJTLU’s Design Research
Institute; October 2014.
2009 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: 50 years Studio for
Electronic Music (1959 - 2009), Group Exhibition, University Mozarteum, Salzburg,
Austria, Nov. 11-13
2007 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: Benefit for the Austrian
Child Cancer Foundation, Group Exhibition, Kapitelsaal, Salzburg; Oct. 05
2007 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: Musica Viva, Group
Exhibition, Gotischer Saal, Salzburg; April 07
2006 Westermann, C., ”you_are” – video installation / online, in: Artificial A.Gender, online
exhibition, (Australia)
2005 Westermann, C., ”post communist condition no.01” in: Capturing Utopia, Group
exhibition, Fournos, Centre for Digital Culture, Athen, Griechenland, Sept. 19-25
2005 Westermann, C., “I am…/waiting” – site-specific video installation, in: Project X Theatre
+ Planetary Collegium, Group exhibition; Project X, Dallas, USA, Sept. 05
2003 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video compostion, in: International Festival
of Cinema and Technology, New York, USA, Dec. 06-10
2003 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x”, Westermann, C. and Hecker, F., “widerhall”,
and Westermann, C., “you_are”, in: Neues Cinema, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Klub
Katarakt, Hamburg, Germany
2002 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: ISEA, International
Symposium for the Electronic Arts, Nagoya, Japan, Oct. 27-31
2002 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: Praterfernsehen, Volksbühne
im Prater, Berlin, Germany
2002 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x”, and Westermann, C., “city”, in: mediaterra
– touring exhibition, Athens and Lavrion in Greece, Sofia in Bulgaria, Belgrade in
Yugoslavia, Maribor in Slovenia and in Frankfurt a.M. in Germany, Sept. 14 - Oct. 15
2001 Westermann, C. and Hecker, F., ”widerhall/~sh0wables” – video composition, in:
trans oo4, Chicago, USA
2001 Westermann, C. and Hecker, F., ”widerhall/~sh0wables” – video composition, in:
impact, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2001 Westermann, C. and Hecker, F., ”widerhall/~sh0wables” – video composition, in:
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2001 Westermann, C., ”city” – light print installation, in: HfG Karlsruhe, opening exhibition
at the ZKM, Germany
2001 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: screening 06, Hauptzollamt,
Museum for Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt a.M., Germany, March 9 -11
2001 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: media forum, XXIII.
Moscow International Film Festival, Russia
2001 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x” – video composition, in: anima, Maison de la
culture Plateau Mont-Royal, Montréal, Canada
2000 Westermann, C., ”city” – four digital 3D images, competition entry, in: Less Aesthetics,
More Ethics – Città Terzo Millennio, Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy, June 18
- Oct. 29
2000 Westermann, C., ”format” – installation with video still, in: S/He’ll Survive, Montevideo,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 08 - May 03
2000 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x”, and Westermann, C. and Hecker, F., ”widerhall/~
sh0wables” – video compositions, ZKM - Center for Art and Media Technology,
Karlsruhe, Germany
2000 Westermann, C. and Wagener, K., “Composition for a Web Page Quartet” – internet
performance, in: Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
2000 Westermann, C. and Reed, S., “btd x”, and Westermann, C. and Wagener, K., “Composition
for a Web Page Quartet”, in: Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia
1998 Westermann, C., “blue room” – temporary multi-media installation in public space,
Karlsruhe, Germany
1997 Westermann, C., “Fly” – competition entry, a Monument for the Karhumäki brothers,
Kuorevesi, Finland
1997 Westermann, C., “La petite Ceinture” – architectural proposal, Helsinki, Finland and
Paris, France
1997 Westermann, C., “Moving Information Belt” – architectural proposal – Tidal Variations,
Tampere, Finland