Keith Armstrong has specialised for 15 years in collaborative, hybrid, new media works with an emphasis on innovative performance forms, site-specific electronic arts, networked interactive installations, alternative interfaces, public arts practices 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. Keith's artworks have been shown and profiled extensively both in Australia and overseas and he has been the recipient of numerous grants from the public and private sectors. He was formerly an Australia Council New Media Arts Fellow, a Postdoctoral New Media Fellow at QUT’s 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.

Keith 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 and a regularly invited peer assessor on state and national arts boards. His work Intimate Transactions received an Honorary Mention in the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica and featured in the 2005 Ars Electronica Festival in Austria. It was also shown at major venues and festivals in London, Athens, Glasgow, Doncaster UK, Santa Barbara (USA,) ACMI, Artspace, Performance Space and the Brisbane Festival. It will next represent Australia at ‘New Media Beijing’ during the 2008 Olympics Arts Festival. Keith’s new interactive installation, Shifting Intimacies, developed during a recent Arts Council England residency in London, was premiered at the ICA, London in March 2006 – it will be next shown throughout Australia in late 2008. Keith is currently developing several new works and collaborating with aboriginal collective Uniikup Productions on a new interactive installation artwork based upon ideas drawn from traditional aboriginal law. His major new interactive project is called Knowmore (Atmospheres of Democracy).

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