Keith Roberson

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Keith Roberson is a digital artist and Associate Professor of Digital Arts at Florida State University whose work blends interactive sculpture, virtual environments, and emerging technologies to explore how humans perceive landscape, time, and sentience. Over nearly three decades at FSU, he has developed a practice rooted in experimentation—often using consumer‑grade tools, found materials, and custom software to challenge assumptions about what digital art can be. His installations, VR environments, and kinetic works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Jepson Center for the Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, SIGGRAPH, and the Venice Biennale.

His recent research centers on Appalachian Hyalozoic, a multi‑format short-film project that merges AI‑generated animation with 360‑degree field video to trace the geological and ecological histories of the Appalachian Mountains. The work investigates how environmental change, machine learning, and human perception intersect, using panoramic footage of creeks, peaks, and flood‑altered terrain as the foundation for layered, semi‑sentient visual narratives. Roberson describes this phase of his practice as an inquiry into how digital tools can illuminate the evolving relationships between consciousness, landscape, and deep time.

Alongside his solo research, Roberson continues to collaborate across disciplines at FSU, contributing digital visualizations to contemporary music performances such as Symbioscape with composer Eren Gümrükçüoğlu and participating in environmentally focused projects like Rooting‑Branching, which integrates art, ecology, and community engagement. His long‑running science‑education installation Our Reefs: Caribbean Connections has been shown in more than 25 venues across the Caribbean and the United States, reflecting his commitment to public‑facing, educational storytelling. Across all of his work, Roberson remains focused on how emerging technologies—AI, VR, and interactive media—can expand the ways we understand ecological systems and our place within them.