Keith Armstrong
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Genres: innovative performance forms, site-specific, networked interactive installations and art-science and arts-health collaborations
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Email: k.armstrong[at]qut.edu.au
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Interest: Keith Armstrong specialises in collaborative, hybrid, new media works with an emphasis on performance, site specific installation and art-science collaborations. His ongoing research focuses on how scientific and philosophical ecologies can both influence and direct the design and conception of networked, interactive media artworks.
Bio: Dr. Keith Armstrong is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher currently based in Brisbane Australia. He has specialised for 12 years in collaborative, hybrid, new media works with an emphasis on innovative performance forms, site-specific, networked interactive installations and art-science and arts-health collaborations. These works are focussed upon ideas, concepts and practices of scientific and philosophical ecologies.
Keith is a creative director, media designer and system integrator within multidisciplinary teams and is the founder and director of the interdisciplinary collective, ‘Transmute’. The collective members specialise in Interactive Media, Performance/Dance, Interactive Sound Composition, Communication Design, 3D Animation, Furniture Design, Sustainability Science and Hardware and Software Engineering.
Keith is currently a Postdoctoral New Media Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre, Australia, a lead researcher in the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design, a Queensland editor for the Australian national arts newspaper Realtime and a member of the QUT Creative Industries Media-Architecture Integration Advisory Panel to Queensland Government and Hassell Partners Architects.
He has been awarded numerous national and internationally competitive grants, prizes and commissions and his artworks/creative publications have been shown and profiled extensively both in Australia and overseas for over a decade. Keith’s next project is a dance/interactive media collaboration with a British choreographer, working at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London.