Keith Armstrong

Genre

Skills

Artistic direction, conceptual development, critical review, visual design, 
image production, digital video, working closely with performers and 
performance knowledges, bringing together large teams of differently 
skilled people, establishing and nurturing cooperative, mutually respectful 
creative processes, and realizing ambitious works.


 

Qualifications

2003-05 
Post Doctoral Fellow, CIRAC, QUT.

1997- 2003 
Ph.D
Thesis: Towards an Ecosophical Praxis of New Media Space Design.

1993-5 
Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts.
QUT, Faculty of Creative Industries, Brisbane.
Thesis: Multimedia Performance Practices for Virtual Spaces.

1992
Certificate of Arts, Fine Arts and Design.
Griffith University (Queensland College of Art), Brisbane.

1988
Masters of Information Technology.
Leicester DeMontfort University, Leicester, England.
Thesis: New Networked Applications for Industrial Control.

1984-87
Bachelor of Science, Electronic Engineering (with honours)
Leicester DeMontfort University, Leicester, England.
Thesis: Phoneme-Based Speech Synthesizer for the Severely Disabled.
Award: British Government Scholarship.

Modus Operandi

Throughout my career I have found my projects to consistently fall outside, 
or in between, traditional categories of artistic practice. Hence I have sought 
out and developed creative partnerships with sound artists, visual artmakers, 
performers, theatre makers, writers, critical theorists, dancers and scientists 
in differing combinations, and have experienced how new forms may emerge 
through these active collaborations. These works have been variously termed 
‘new media’, ‘emerging genres’, 'integrated media practices' or ‘hybrid forms’.

Above all I work to foster the 'art of collaboration' through my integrated 
media practices, a process to which all members of the team must be closely    
committed. This requires an openness and generosity from all, something 
which is not always easy to achieve. However I have found that this approach 
is most likely to lead to the team to create actively hybrid outcomes.

Furthermore as a new media practitioner I have found that digital image, 
sound and interactive systems strongly assist in weaving the fabric of these 
integrated media works.

Work examples

 

Please  feel free to visit my website http://www.embodiedmedia.com