Institutional Presentation Statement

Keywords: Immersive Arts, Studio-Lab, Performing Arts, Body, Representation, Ontology, Interdisciplinarity

This institutional presentation highlights an innovative university wide art-tech lab: the Immersive Arts Space at the Zurich University of the Arts (CH). The presentation describes the
lab’s role inside and outside the context of a large public art school and the manner in which different conceptual, critical and practice-base agendas coincide. The position of the
IASpace is theorized within broader frameworks of innovation and the social-material production of knowledge in Science and Technology Studies (STS) in order to understand the lab’s broader political-aesthetic dynamics and evolving ethos.

• Chris Salter is an artist, Professor of Computation Arts in the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and Co-Director of the Hexagram network for Research-Creation in Arts, Cultures and Technologies, Director of Hexagram Concordia and Associate Director, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia. https://www.chrissalter.com