CURRICULUM_VITAE:
EDUCATION:
2023 (current) MFA Fully-funded interdisciplinary practice based PhD scholarship with NCAD and CONNECT, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications.
More here: connectcentre.ie/people/nadia-armstrong/
2020 - 2022 MFA Art in the Contemporary World at the National College of Art
and Design, Dublin. First class honours.
2016 - 2020 Fine Art Media and Critical Cultures (International),
at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (NCAD). First class honours. Highly commended in Visual Culture.
2018 - 2019 Hito Steyerl’s lens-based studio at the University of the Arts, Berlin (UdK), for an international study year on the Erasmus programme.
2015 - 2016 Art Foundation & Portfolio Course at Stillorgan College of Further Education, Dublin
EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS:
March 2024 (UPCOMING) RENDER ME TENDER installation at RENDR Festival, Portview Trade Centre, Belfast, NI. More here: rendrfestival.com
February 2024 ’Content Realism’ Panel Discussion at Haus Der Kulteren Der Welt for the 2024 edition of transmediale: you’re doing amazing sweetie. A conversation between four 2023 transmediale residency artists, Jennifer Merlyn Scherler, Nadia J. Armstrong, Mac Andre Arboleda & Lukas Rehm. Moderated by Anna-Lena Panter from transmediale. More here: transmediale.de/en/event/content-realism
November 2023 RENDER ME TENDER four channel video installation at Beta Festival 2023: a creative cartography of Ireland’s art and technology landscape, Exhibition at the Digital Hub, Thomas St., Dublin. 2nd - 19th November. More here: betafestival.ie/exhibition
November 2023 Panel Conversation at Beta Festival Conference for Sample Studio’s Digital Art in Ireland: Reflections and Visuals Book Launch, with James O’Sullivan and Conor McGarrigle. Digital Art in Ireland: Reflections and Visuals was edited by James O’Sullivan and Aoibhie McCarthy, supported by the Irish Arts Council and published by Blackwater Publishing. Available here: blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-in-ireland
October 2023 Beta x transmediale 2023 Residency Programme. This residency supported production of new video piece RENDER ME TENDER. Supported by the Digital Hub and the Arts Council’s International Residency Initiatives Scheme. October - November 2023. More here: transmediale.de/residents/nadiajarmstrong
September 2023 Con:temporary Quarters Culture Night Online Screening of video piece EDIFICE UNBOUND (2022). Con:temporary Quarters (Eve Woods and Aoife Ward) is a project that pushes back against overdevelopment of temporary living quarters (PBSA, co-living, apart-hotels), and the removal and privatisation of spaces previously used for community, arts and culture, specifically in the Liberties and the Historic Quarter in Dublin, Ireland. More here: culturenight.ie/contemporaryquarters
August 2023 Altered Terrain: a series of site interventions through augmented reality, with accompanying QR code map that activates AR experiences across Ireland. A screen service project, curated by Bronagh Gallagher. More here: www.screenservice.ie
February 2023 Creative Futures Academy Lecturer at NCAD, delivering a bespoke Visual Culture elective titled “the Theatricality of the Word in Contemporary Art-Making.”
More here: creativefuturesacademy.ie/courses
January 2023 Mart Studios Members Exhibition at the Mart Gallery in Rathmines, Dublin. Opens 7th till the 20th of January. More here: mart.ie/members-exhibition-2023
December 2022 - March 2023 Cybernate Residency Programme, a digital arts in public space research residency for six digital artists, created by Galway Culture Company in partnership with Pôle PIXEL, HACNUM Network, CREW, the French Embassy in Ireland and ATU and funded by The Arts Council. The residency is produced by Culture Works and begins in Lyon, France and will conclude in March 2023 in Galway, Ireland. More here: cybernate.ie
October 2022 Recipient of a Visual Arts Bursary from the Irish Arts Council, to support the creation of new work.
September 2022 Winner of the inaugural €10,000 Digital Innovation in Art Bursary from Accenture Ireland, 2022 Business to Arts Awards. More here: www.irishtimes.com/2022/accenture-digital-art-bursary-winner
July 2022 Digital Residency with the Dlr County Council Arts for their #dlrLens social media programme. Creating AI art in response to the theme of the Scribbling Scribe. More here: https://www.dlrcoco.ie/galleryprogramme/nadiajarmstrong
June 2022 NCAD MFA 2022 Graduate Showcase, at the National College of Art and Design, Thomas St., Dublin. Details here: https://ncad.works/graduates/nadia-j-armstrong
May 2022 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, the Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin. Running from 30 May - 24 July.
April 2022 “Performing Research: four directions of artistic inquiry,” group show at Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath, Ireland.
More details here: solsticeartscentre.ie/performing-research
March 2022 “You breathe differently down here," a group show of emerging artists at Draíocht, Blanchardstown, curated by performance artist Amanda Coogan. Running from 2nd March - 30th April.
February 2022 Open Studio Event and premiere screening of new video piece, Attached to Nothing, Connected to Everything (2021-2022) at the Irish Cultural Centre, Paris, France, on the 2nd of February.
November 2021 Salonathon Group Show at Platform Arts Belfast, 4th till the 17th.
More details here: platformarts/groupshow
September 2021 Culture Night Exhibition at the Guinness Storehouse with First Day Gallery, running all week. More information at: culturenightdublin.ie/event/firstdaygallery
August 2021 Boredom is Not a Luxury at CRAFT Central London, a multidisciplinary exhibition that explores digital diversion and boredom as a resistance to neoliberal achievement obsessed mentalities. Curated by Seray Ozdemir. Running from August 31st till September 4th. Free Eventbrite Tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/boredom-is-not-a-luxury
July 2021 Awarded the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Emerging Artist Grant 2021. Supported by the Arts Council. More information at: dlrcoco.ie/emerging-artist-grants
June 2021 Woman in the Machine, an exhibition and event co-created by VISUAL and Carlow Arts Festival that will run from June 4th till September 12th, at VISUAL, Carlow. Carlow Arts Festival runs from the 11th - 13th at the former Braun Factory in Carlow as part of Brightening Air. More information at: womaninthemachine.com
April 2021 RE/MAINS OF THE DAZE, an exhibition in three courses. The Return Gallery, Goethe-Institut Irland, Merrion Square, Dublin. Exhibition runs till May, currently closed to the public, due to reopen in early July.
Les Nouveaux Immateriaux, an inhuman symposium for the new sublime is an experimental sound piece in the form of an audioguide created as a contemporary response to Jean Francois Lyotard and Thierry Chaput’s exhibition at the Pompidou, Les Immateriaux (1985).
The audioguide and exhibition details are available at: acw.ie/nouveaux-immateriaux
December 2020 Winner of an RDS visual arts award, the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award (value €6,000).
More here: rds.ie/rdsfoundation/arts/nadiaarmstrong/2020
November 2020 Circuit Visual Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland. Showing of recent video work, Digital Native. Due to run in January, postponed, with dates to come in 2021, depending on guidelines for Covid-19 restrictions.
October 2020 Recipient of the Goethe-Insitut A.I. Award, with the Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT) in Tallin, Estonia. This commission is part of the “Generation A=Algorithm” project run by the Goethe-Insitut and will take place in 2021. More Information at: goethe.de
September 2020 NCAD 2020 Graduate Open Studio Online Event - A Covid-safe open studio event where a selection of graduates returned to studio to create and document mini-installations of their final works. National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Available to view at @ncad_dublin via Instagram.
August 2020 Recipient of the Fire Station Artist Studios 2020 Graduate Award & Residency for Digital Media. Fire Station Artist Studios, Buckingham Street Lower, Dublin 1.
July 2020 Winner of the Digital Society 2020 Bursary Award for graduate work, Digital Native. Digital Transformations Ireland.
December 2019 “Into the Dark,” final year media interim exhibition. The Media Basement Gallery, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
May 2019 “What Desert Smells Like,” editor and contributor to a published collection of fictional short stories of the future, inspired by Social and Technology Studies (STS). Created in a collaborative Studium Generale 2018/2019 year long seminar project, “Dreamscapes of Modernity,” at the UdK Medienhaus, Schöneberg, Berlin.
July 2019 The Rundgang, end of year show at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Hardenbergstraße 33, Charlottenburg, Berlin.
May 2018 “Media Mustard,” second year media end of year exhibition. Eblana House, the Liberties, Dublin.
May 2018 “Freedom,” a Peachy Dublin exhibition reflecting on post Repeal Ireland, in aid of Together for Yes.
The MART Gallery, Rathmines, Dublin.
April 2018 “Solace,” music and visual arts event in response to the global #metoo movement and the Irish #ibelieveher solidarity movement. Jaja Studios, Stoneybatter, Dublin.
April 2018 - 2020 “Territorial Remix,” second year media permanent installation project in the media department corridors on NCAD campus, curated by artists Alan Butler and Cliona Harmey. National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
February 2018 “Interactive Portrait Studio,” week long photography based open workshop and exhibition with visiting media lecturer Laura Liverani, taking and displaying portraits simultaneously. Yellow Box Gallery, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
November 2017 “A Journey into Space,” interim exhibition for second year media students. National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
May 2016 Foundation Art & Portfolio Course Graduation Show. Stillorgan College of Further Education, Dublin.
November 2016 “Together We Are,” Stillorgan College of Further Education in Collaboration with Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. Town Hall, Dunlaoighaire, Dublin.