Claus Gunti (PhD) is an art historian, writer and curator based in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is lecturer and researcher at the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) and coordinates exhibition projects at the Centre de la photographie Genève. He previously taught contemporary art history and digital culture at the University of Lausanne, EPFL and University of Neuchâtel, and has been research fellow at Universität der Künste in Berlin and the German Forum for Art History in Paris.
His research focusses on the intersection of art and technology, media archeology, 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, a research project also shown as an exhibition in Paris, Lausanne, Seoul, Tokyo and Bologna. He is co-founder of the photo-history journal Transbordeur and the book series Superscripte.
Currently he is writing a book on materialized photography and has just started a research project called Soft Photography at ECAL with Milo Keller and Clément Lambelet, addressing emotional responses to computer generated images.
Recently he has been writing about art as a collective process, the concept of potential images, and talking about AI & copyright and AI and... death.