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 and curates exhibition projects at the Centre de la photographie Genève. 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 with Milo Keller and Florian Amoser, also shown as an exhibition in Europe and Asia. 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, which addresses emotional responses to computer generated images.