Nadia J. Armstrong

Nadia J. Armstrong is a PhD Researcher at the CONNECT Centre supervised by Dr. Tom O’Dea and a part-time Lecturer on the Creative Futures Academy programme at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). Her academic foundation includes a first class honours BA in Fine Art Media and Critical Cultures (International) and first class honours MFA in Art in the Contemporary World, both from NCAD.

Her research interrogates the commodification of human emotions through machine learning processes, data accumulation systems, and computational frameworks. Armstrong employs performance, 3D composition, AI, and expanded video installation to dissect digital history nodes, cyber identity agency, and socio-political contestations in social space. Her practice treats technological infrastructure as cultural material for examining existential conditions in digital ecosystems.

Armstrong’s accolades include:

• Beta x transmediale 2023 residency
• Accenture Digital Innovation in Art Bursary (2022)
• Irish Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary (2022)
• CYBERNATE residency (2022/23)
• Goethe-Institut A.I. Residency Award (2021)
• RDS Visual Arts Award for "DIGITAL NATIVE" (2020)

She maintains active exhibition practice with recent presentations including "Altered Terrain" (2023 AR exhibition), Mart Studios Members exhibition (2023), 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition (2022), and "Woman in the Machine" at VISUAL Carlow (2021), demonstrating sustained engagement with digital art communities across European platforms.