“Staging Controversies: or How to Destabilize Art, Science and Technology in the Museum” Seminar by Chris Salter
- 13-14 on Friday 13th November
- Medical Museion, Auditorium
- Free, no registration required
Chris Salter is Professor of Immersive Arts and Director of the Immersive Arts Space at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He is an internationally renowned artist whose work spans immersive environments, sensory experience, performance, emerging technologies, and the intersections of art and scientific research. Chris is also a creator of networks, institutes, and educations that have shaped the world of art and science – a full bio is below.
Medical Museion is delighted to host this special seminar when Chris will talk about ‘How to Destabilize Art, Science and Technology in the Museum’.
The seminar is part of an event celebrating the publication of the book What Curators Know: Art and Science in the Museum, edited by Hannah Star Rogers, Medical Museion. A free book launch will take place on November 12th at 16.00 What Curators Know: Art and Science in the Museum
Biography
Chris Salter is a Professor of Immersive Arts and Director of the Immersive Arts Space at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Before this he spent eighteen years as Professor of Design and Computation Arts (now Emeritus) and University Research Chair in New Media, Technology and the Senses at Concordia University in Montreal where he was also Co-Director of the Hexagram network for research-creation in media art, technology and digital culture as well as Co-Founder and Associate Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology (also Concordia). He studied philosophy and economics at Emory University and completed his PhD in Theater studies with research in computer music at Stanford University. Salter’s artistic work and scholarly research lies at the nexus of the technology-based arts, social studies of science and technology (STS), sensory anthropology and media and performance studies. His immersive and physically experiential works are informed by theater, architecture, visual art, computer music, perceptual psychology, cultural theory and engineering, and are developed in collaboration with anthropologists, historians, philosophers, engineers, artists and designers. These artworks have been exhibited in over a dozen countries at such exhibitions and festivals as the Venice Architecture Biennale, Barbican Centre, Berliner Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, ZKM, HEK, Grand Palais Immersif, MALI Lima, Vitra Design Museum, Musée d’art Contemporain Montreal, National Art Museum of China, EXIT Festival (Paris-Creteil) and Place des Arts-Montreal, among many others. He is the author of numerous essays and three books published by the MIT Press including Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance (2010), Alien Agency:Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making (2015) and Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape our Everyday Life (2022). He is currently working on the edited volume “Sensing Extended Reality: Bodies, Interaction, Technology” with Lorenza Mondada and Philippe Sormani for Routledge as well as a book-length essay called Immersion: A Critical Archaeology.
