Chris Salter

United States

Director and Professor, Immersive Arts Space, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland.

He is also Professor Emeritus, Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal and former Co-Director of the Hexagram network for research-creation in arts, cultures and technology and Co-Founder of the Milieux Institute at Concordia. He studied philosophy and economics and completed his PhD in theatre studies with research in computer music Stanford University. His artistic work has been seen all over the world at such venues as the Venice Architecture Biennale, Barbican Centre, Berliner Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, ZKM, Kunstfest Weimar, Musée d’art Contemporain, EMPAC, Muffathalle, EXIT Festival and Place des Arts-Montreal, among many others.. He regularly presents at national and international conferences, has given invited talks at universities, museums, cultural centres and festivals worldwide and has sat on numerous juries including NIME, ISEA and the Prix Ars Electronica. He is the author of Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance ( 2010), Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making (2015) and Sensing Machines (2022), all from MIT Press.

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Estados Unidos

Director y Profesor, Immersive Arts Space, Universidad de las Artes de Zúrich, Zúrich, Suiza.

También es Profesor Emérito de Diseño y Artes Computacionales en la Universidad Concordia de Montreal y ex Codirector de la red Hexagram para la investigación-creación en artes, culturas y tecnología, así como Cofundador del Instituto Milieux en Concordia. Estudió filosofía y economía y obtuvo su doctorado en estudios teatrales con una investigación en música computacional en la Universidad de Stanford. Su trabajo artístico ha sido presentado en todo el mundo en espacios como la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia, el Barbican Centre, Berliner Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, ZKM, Kunstfest Weimar, Musée d’art Contemporain, EMPAC, Muffathalle, EXIT Festival y Place des Arts-Montreal, entre muchos otros.

Participa regularmente en conferencias nacionales e internacionales, ha dado conferencias invitadas en universidades, museos, centros culturales y festivales de todo el mundo, y ha formado parte de numerosos jurados, incluidos NIME, ISEA y el Prix Ars Electronica. Es autor de Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance (2010), Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making (2015) y Sensing Machines (2022), todos publicados por MIT Press.