Christopher Salter is a media artist, director and composer based in Montréal, Canada and Berlin, Germany. Salter develops and produces large-scale, multi-media and interactive environments which merge space, vision and sound. These environments respond in complex and subtle ways to the audience’s presence and activities. His works transfer visitors into an audio-visual scenario with strong audible as well as with dramatic elements.
Salter studied economics and philosophy at Emory University and completed a Ph.D. in theater+computer-generated sound at Stanford University in 1997.He was awarded the Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt “Bundeskanzler” grants for research/work in Germany between 1993-1995 where he collaborated with Peter Sellars and William Forsythe at the Ballett Frankfurt( Eidos:Telos, 1995, Sleepers Guts, 1997).
In 1997, he co-founded the art+research organization Sponge, an interdisciplinary association of artists and researchers who are exploring the nexus of investigative art, speculative design and techno-scientific research. His work with Sponge has toured internationally to festivals and exhibitions such as Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH 2000, Mediaterra-Athens, the Exploratorium, Mediaterra-Athens, the Exploratorium, Banff Center and V2 Rotterdam and has received recent grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Daniel Langlois Foundation and the LEF Foundation.