Chris Salter studied philosophy and economics at Emory University and completed a PhD in directing/dramatic criticism at Stanford University where he also researched and studied at CCMRA.  He is an artist, Co-Director of the Hexagram network and Professor for Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. He collaborated with Peter Sellars and William Forsythe/Frankfurt Ballet. His work has been shown internationally in venues such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, Chronus Art Center Shanghai, Wiener Festwochen, Barbican Centre, STRP Biennale, Berliner Festspiele, Muffathalle, Vitra Design Museum, HAU-Berlin, BIAN 2014 (Montreal), LABoral, Lille 3000, CTM, National Art Museum of China, Ars Electronica, Villette Numerique, Todays Art, Transmediale, EXIT Festival, among others. He is the author of Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance and Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making. 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. In the 2019/20 season, the immersive installation Sensefactory, conceived by him and Dietmar Lupfer, can be seen in Zeche Eins at Schauspielhaus Bochum.

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