About

Josh Westerman is a Colorado based interdisciplinary artist and researcher who works with installation art, graphic scores, field recordings, appropriated content, improvisation, and video. His work utilizes and critiques emergent media and aesthetics while still showing a fondness for established disciplines. He experiments with algorithmic art and has explored issues like alienation and intimacy in the contemporary social and political contexts brought about by the ubiquity of digital technology.

Josh is a graduate of California Institute for the Arts where received an MFA in Experimental Sound Practices and Integrated Media. He recently completed a PhD in Emergent Media and Media Arts Practices from CU Boulder. He is currently working with Dr. Tyler Kelly at the University of Birmingham (UK) to carry out interdisciplinary research merging algebraic geometry, sound art and installation. Josh has shown work internationally and will present at the Modern Language Conference and the Society for Arts in Culture Conference in 2025.