Nadia J. Armstrong is a visual artist and PhD researcher working with performance, 3D composition, AI and expanded video. Her work is concerned with the commodification of human emotions, the creation of machines and the physical entanglement of our bodies with world systems.

Armstrong is in the first year of her fully funded interdisciplinary practice-Based PhD scholarship at NCAD & the Science Foundation Ireland’s Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications, CONNECT. Her research project is taking shape as an artist-ethnographic, ecosocial, cyborg feminist examination of the varying forms and systems of knowledge that underpin technology research, development and application.

Recently Armstrong spoke on a discourse panel “Content Realism,” at transmediale 2024 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Her artwork RENDER ME TENDER (2024) was exhibited at the inaugural Beta festival, at the Digital Hub, in Dublin last November. RENDER ME TENDER will be exhibited at upcoming RENDR festival in Belfast from the 29th of February till the 1st of March. Other recent achievements include being selected for the Beta x transmediale 2023 Residency Programme and participating in the 2022/23 Cybernate Residency programme, produced by Culture Works.

Nadia’s work is supported by the Irish Arts Council. She is also supported by Accenture Ireland and was the winner of the inaugural Digital Innovation in Art Award at the 2022 Business to Arts Awards. In 2022 Nadia also completed her MFA Art in the Contemporary World at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (NCAD) with a First Class Honours.

Back in 2020, she completed her undergraduate degree in Fine Art Media and Critical Cultures (International) at NCAD, with a First Class Honours and Highly Commended in Visual Culture. That same year, she was awarded a Digital Society Bursary, the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP CCI Residency and the Fire Station Artist Studios Graduate Award. In 2021, she went on to receive a DLR County Council Emerging Artist Grant. Nadia is also one of 12 European artists under 30, who received a 2021 Goethe-Institut AI Residencies Award. A full list of exhibitions and achievements is available in the CV section.