kate armstrong (continued)
Armstrong was artist in residence at the Techlab at the Surrey
Art Gallery and received a New Media Production Grant from the
Canada Council in 2003. She is a recipient of a 2004-2005 commission
of New Radio and Performing Arts for Turbulence, which was made
possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts, and is affiliated with the Locative Media Lab.
Her work has also been commissioned by the Mobile Digital Commons
Network with funding from Heritage Canada and the City of Montreal,
and I-Projects for the Charles H. Scott Gallery. Armstrong curates
the new media art speaker series Upgrade 2.0 at the Western
Front in conjunction with Upgrade at Eyebeam Atelier in New
York, and runs Special Airplane, a Canadian organization for
media arts initiatives. She has a primary degree in French Language
and Literature, a BA (Honours) in Film Studies and Philosophy,
and a Masters in Philosophy. She has written for P.S 1/MoMA,
the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, TrAce, Year Zero
One, and The Thing, as well as for catalogue publications. Her
first book, Crisis & Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture,
was published in 2002.
