Claus Gunti (PhD) is an art historian, writer and curator based in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is lecturer at the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) and coordinator at the Centre de la photographie Genève. His research focusses on the intersection of art and technology and new forms of photographic practices, with a particular interest for the interstice between "reality" and virtual spaces. His book Digital Image Systems came out in 2020, in 2021 he co-published the book Automated Photography with Milo Keller and Florian Amoser, also shown as an exhibition in Europe and Asia. Making Light of Every Thing, a show curated with Danaé Panchaud addressing intimacy and image fabrication processes, was on view at Centre de la photographie Genève in Spring 2024.
He currently works on the notion of "potential images", most recently in a text on Pascal Greco's in-game photography. Various texts on AI and CGI projects are featured in Foam Magazine #66. He is currently writing a book on materialized photography for the book series Superscripte and has just started a research project called Soft Photography at ECAL, which addresses emotional responses to computer generated images.