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This is both an archive of past artistic works and an ongoing record of Keith Armstrong's individual and collaborative new media, hybrid arts and arts research practices. The main areas of this site (Global Content) are accessed via the menu on screen left. Specific projects or themes (Local Content) are found in the area below this text. Embodied Media has a NEW web site coming soon.

CURRENT WORKS

Intimate Transactions has recently been awarded a Visions of Australia Touring grant (2008-09) and will be presented in Beijing China during the 2008 Olympics as part of 'China International New Media Arts 2008' at the National Art Museum of China and the Art Museum of the Imperial Palace. A third node will also be located at California State University, USA.


The Last Generation Promotional Image. 2008. Image keith Armstrong

A major new edited BOOK is now available - Intimate Transactions Art, Exhibition and Interaction within Distributed Network Environments. I recently spoke about "Ecology, Performance and Collaboration - Embodying Intimate Transactions" in the USA. More..

Major new interactive installation, Shifting Intimacies will be premiered in Australia at the On-Edge Festival,KickArts Cairns, Mon 21st july – Sunday 3rd August 2008 and the Judith Wright Centre For Contemporary Art, Brisbane International Arts Festival, 30th July - 2nd August, 2008. This work was premiered at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London in 2006.

I am currently working on a new work: Knowmore (House of Commons). This includes a collaboration with Chris Barker (3D), Darren Pack (Quest 3D) and Luke Lickfold. (Sound)


Shifting Intimacies, ICA, London, 2006. Image Keith Armstrong


Image (by Stuart Lawson) from Mixed-Reality Installation, Intimate Transactions

Artforms?
I am a practicing freelance artist, creative director, media designer & system integrator of new media artworks. I specialise in the development of collaborative, mixed reality productions that merge site-specific interactive installation, performance and multimedia practices. My works are based around ideas of philosophical ecologies.

Research Interests?
My works are grounded in theory. I use them both as strategies for data gathering to aid theoretical development and also as evidence in themselves. These directions meld with a Practice-led methodology. Hence these artworks are significant as both analysable objects and yet also as forms which live and breathe beyond words and theoretical concepts. Whilst I pursue multiple methods. I am most inspired by the 'Practice as Research' paradigm.

As the numbers and impact of the human population grow, the imperative of confronting the unsustainable becomes more pressing.. it is
the greatest challenge, terror, opportunity and adventure the species has ever faced

Tony Fry 2000