KEITH ARMSTRONG + DR. DAVID TUCKER AND DR. GABRIELLE LEBBINCK (WORKING WITH MARCUS YATES), SAMFORD ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY (SERF)
+ DR. ELEANOR VELASQUEZ, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH NETWORK (TERN) – AUSTRALIA’S LAND ECOSYSTEM OBSERVATORY
MTHF pioneering member Keith Armstrong is a 2024 ANAT Synapse resident, presenting his multi-layered project, Forest Art Intelligence (FAI). With thirty years of experimental work focusing on social and ecological justice, Keith’s participative practices envision collective paths to sustainable futures.
“Our aim is to understand how to develop art forms capable of growing and evolving alongside a regenerating forest, whilst also actively benefiting that forest’s health. We envisage embedded artworks capable of slowly finding, and then occupying, their own intelligent ‘niches,’ within the forest’s ecology – a speculative form we call an ‘Art Intelligence.’” Keith Armstrong
Keith Armstrong, Common Thread (still from uncompressed video), 2022, Held in Collection of ‘.NewArt { foundation;}, Barcelona’, {Shown at ISEA 2022, Barcelona, Novtec 2022, Lima, Peru and V2 Lab for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, 2023}. (Image Keith Armstrong/Visual Data set recorded by Dr. Dmitry Bratanov and Gavin Broadbent, QUT Research Engineering Facility).
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