Kate Armstrong is a Canadian artist, writer and curator with a history of projects focusing on experimental literary practices, networks and public space. [1]
Armstrong is a Canadian artist, writer, and curator. [1] She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She received a master of philosophy in humanities degree from Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland. After gaining her master's degree from Memorial University in her early twenties, she began her current career path in the arts. [2] The main focus of her work is to explore the relationship between art and technology. [3]
Armstrong was born in Calgary and lived in New York, Glasgow and Japan, later moving to Vancouver, British Columbia. She resides in Vancouver. She is married to Michael Tippett and has 2 children. [2]
She founded Upgrade Vancouver [4] in 2003 and has produced over 100 events in the field of art and technology in Vancouver, as well as many international events and exhibitions in connection with Upgrade International, [5] a network operating in 30 cities worldwide.
In 2008 Armstrong commissioned and curated Tributaries and Text-Fed Streams, [6] a work by J.R. Carpenter, which investigated the formal properties of RSS syndication as a literary form.
From 2005 to 2008 she taught at Simon Fraser University in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology in Surrey, British Columbia. She lectured at Tate Britain in mid 2009. [7]
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