Chris Moffett, Ph.D.

Chris Moffett (b. 1970, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA) is a Founding Member of the collective ARE, exploring the intersection between movement, sensory exercises and aesthetic practices.

Since 2010, ARE has performed relational drawing exercises as education/barter for The Whitney Musuem of American Art; made shoes for the Festival of Ideas for the New City, in conjunction with Futurefarmers and the Guggenheim Museum; made drawings from tactile contact for the Noguchi Museum; led experimental engagements with Gerhard Richter’s Six Grey Mirrors No. 884/1-6, 2003, for DIA:Beacon; led walking as an aesthetic practice, for the Physical Intelligence Lab in Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard College; practiced micro-performance for The Hemispheric Institute and Ausência Em Cena in São Paulo, Brazil; amongst other works.

With a PhD in Philosophy of Education from Columbia University, his research centers on the aesthetic, embodied, and architectural dimensions of educational practices and thought. His work and writing has been featured in Ecogradients , Spaces, and the Philosophy and Education Yearbook, and he is a contributing Curator/Editor for Cultural Formations. He has been invited by the Occupational Art School to generate embodied renderings of institutional relations, and has lectured extensively on the aesthetics of the web. He has had performance commissioned by—and curates a series of performed lectures for—the Center for Interdisciplinarity, Philosophy and Education Research. He has held a Fellowship in Design for the Department of Arts & Humanities, and a Policy and Research Fellowship at Teachers College, Columbia University, as well as being a Weinberg Fellow.