Keith Armstrong

Keith Armstrong is an experimental artist profoundly motivated by issues of social and ecological justice. His engaged, participative practices provoke audiences to comprehend, envisage and imagine collective pathways towards sustainable futures. He has specialised for over twenty two years in collaborative, experimental practices with emphasis upon innovative performance forms, site-specific electronic arts, networked interactive installations, alternative interfaces, art-science collaborations and socially and ecologically engaged practices.

Keith’s research asks how insights drawn from scientific and philosophical ecologies can help us to better invent and direct experimental art forms, in the understanding that art practitioners are powerful change agents, provocateurs and social catalysts. Through inventing radical research methodologies and processes he has led and created over sixty major art works and process-based projects, which have been shown extensively in Australia and overseas, supported by numerous grants from the public and private sectors.

In late 2019 he showed his new work Elegy for Life, Anthem for Artifice in The 5th International Art and Science Exhibition and Symposium: The Integration of Art and Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence at the National Museum of China. His forthcoming project Carbon Dating with plant artists Donna davis and Caitlin Franzmann seeks to engage audiences by brokering intimate relationships with native Australian grasses, and forthcoming project Common Thread seeks to performatively and computationally image the connections that bind us into the world, asking how might ‘art-thinking’ help us build common, richly threaded futures.
Keith's archive of practice is at www.embodiedmedia.com.

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The Cultural Gardeners - Australian Cultural Alliance for Climate Action

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The Cultural Gardeners - Australian Cultural Alliance for Climate Action

Growing a nation of stewards caring for environment, arts & culture. First Nations first on every Country.

Cultural Gardeners - Australian Cultural Alliance for Climate Action

Sydney
Dec 21 2023 To Dec 31 2024

The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence IS HERE! 

Join us for the book launch and be enchanted by a sharing of stories, dialogue, music and inspiration.

Santa Fe
Oct 28 2021

Field Trip is an international research symposium investigating creative practice at the intersection of art, science, technology and the environment. 

Sunshine Coast
Sep 25 2021

An online symposium that brings The Mind of Plants contributors together to share their reflections and various learnings with plants.

Stories, poetry and sound across a diversity of human languages and geographical landscapes. Come and join us!

USC Sunshine Coast
Apr 09 2021

Field Trip - Arts, Science, Tech and Environment Symposium

Sunshine Coast
Aug 08 2020

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