Kate Armstrong - Art and Technology
This is Kate Armstrong's presentation at Sam Sullivan's 33rd Public Salon on February 7th, 2019 at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre in Vancouver, BC.
Kate Armstrong is a Vancouver-based artist and curator with 20 years of experience in the cultural sector with focus on intersections between art and technology. Her practice has included events in urban space, generative text systems, and experimental digital forms. As a curator she has produced exhibitions, events and publications in art and technology internationally. She founded Upgrade Vancouver as part of an international network of organizations in 30 cities, was a founder of the Goethe Satellite that produced ten exhibitions in Vancouver between 2011-2013, and is past President of the Board of the Western Front. Armstrong was an Artistic Director of the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art which partnered with 15 galleries and organizations including the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Museum of Vancouver to present the work of 150 artists in 2015.
She is the founder of Startland, which has raised over 500K to support free training for immigrants and refugees who wish to enter the technology sector. Armstrong serves on the boards of BC Artscape and the New Forms Festival and has acted on juries for SIGGRAPH, the City of Vancouver, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and Creative BC. Armstrong is on the Creative City Strategy External Advisory Committee with the City of Vancouver and is a member of the standing jury for digital art with the Canada Council for the Arts.
Armstrong has written for P.S.1/MoMa, Blackflash, Fillip, SubTerrain, and the Kootenay School of Writing, contributed to DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Arts (Anvil Press, 2008), and is the editor of Ten Different Things (2018), Art and Disruption (2015), and Electric Speed (2013). She is the author of Crisis & Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture (Michigan State University Press, 2002) in addition to numerous essays. She recently contributed to For Machine Use Only: Contemplations on algorithmic epistemology (&&& c/o The New Centre for Research and Practice, 2016). Other books include Medium (2011), Source Material Everywhere (2011), and Path (2012). Armstrong’s artworks are held in public and private collections including Rhizome, the Rose Goldsen Archive in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University, the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at York University, the Library of the Printed Web, and the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of Lorna Mill’s Ways of Something (2017).
As Director of Living Labs and the Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship at Emily Carr University of Art + Design she develops upwards of 30 art, design, research and technology projects a year and specializes in intersectional partnerships.
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