Chris Salter

Chris Salter is an artist, Full Professor for Design + Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal and Director of the Hexagram Concordia Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technology. He studied philosophy, economics, theatre and computer music at Emory and Stanford Universities. After collaborating with Peter Sellars and William Forsythe/Ballett Frankfurt, he co-founded and directed the art and research organisation Sponge (1997-2003). His solo and collaborative work has been seen all over the world at such venues as the Venice Architecture Biennale, Ars Electronica, Barbican Centre, ZKM, Berliner Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Musée d’art Contemporain, LLUM BCN 2020, EMPAC and Transmediale, among many others. He is the author of ‘Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance’ (MIT Press, 2010) and ‘Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making’ (MIT Press 2015). His new book ‘Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape our Everyday Life. On human and machine sensing’ will be published by MIT Press in 2022.