Keith Armstrong specialises in the development of collaborative, mixed reality productions that merge site specific interactive installation, performance and multi media practices.
Keith Armstrong / Artist biography
Keith Armstrong is a creative director, media designer and system integrator within multidisciplinary teams and is the founder and director of the interdisciplinary collective, 'Transmute'. He is also a Queensland editor for the national arts newspaper Realtime. Armstrong was formerly an Australia Council New Media Arts Fellow, a Postdoctoral New Media Fellow at QUTs Creative Industries Faculty and a lead researcher at the ACID Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design. He is currently a Research Fellow (p/t) at QUT and an actively practicing freelance new media artist.
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Keith Armstrong's dual site interactive installation Intimate Transactions received an Honorary Mention in the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica, featured in the 2005 Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), and has shown at major international venues and festivals in Europe, the USA and Asia - including the National Gallery of China during the 2008 Olympics Arts Festival. His work Shifting Intimacies (2006) premiered at the ICA, London.
Armstrong's latest interactive work, Knowmore (House of Commons), premieres internationally at the 2010 Elektra Festival in Montreal, Canada. He is currently working on a major new interactive installation called Triple Bypass.
