2018 - ongoingsplicer Splicer is an applied research project developing and investigating a new type of photographic apparatus, which enables the exploration of post-rectilinear perspective. Functioning as a visual sampler, it captures new visual matter from existing physical objects. Splicer addresses fluctuating representations of reality and the increasingly computational nature of photography.
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personal, artistic-research, still-life, materiality, tool
2024
Entity - Salwideli Asset Library
Through 3D scanning techniques, the project digitally conserves raised bogs — fragile ecosystems crucial for biodiversity and climate regulation — without physically disturbing them. Complementing this, the soundscape incorporates site-specific field recordings, capturing both audible and hidden microbial and environmental sounds to evoke the moor’s slow, organic processes. By merging digital realism with artistic abstraction, Entity offers a contemplative experience on the preservation, materiality, and vulnerability of these endangered landscapes.
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personal, collaboration, video, landscape, materiality, digital-conservation
2017
Where there are cameras,
there are people
Where there are cameras, there are people is a interactive installation, autonomously interacting, photographing and collecting the portraits of the visitors.
read morepersonal, collaboration, interactive, sculpture, installation
2017 Aporetic SpectacleAporetic Spectacle researches the changing nature of the photographic picture as an extension of human perception in the context of computational photography. The photographs are the result of repetitive parametric captures by a computational camera (smartphone) mounted below an autonomous drone. As the latent image dissolved into data, the smallest deviation in the dataset results in an unconscious and uncontrolled distortion of the road tunnel ventilations. The emergence of this sign of a hidden and imperceptible infrastructure is also a metaphore for the need of photography of a physical base, even for a disembodied computational photograph. read morepersonal, artistic-research, landscape, materiality, tool
2016 Quantified Landscape
Quantified Landscape researches the photographic transposition of space on a flat surface. Deep in the heart of underground galleries, Florian Amoser maps out the relief by placing a motor-mounted laser on the ground. The light beam slowly sweeps the walls of the cave, thereby drawing a continuous line according to the principle of contour lines. These long exposures create black and white landscapes that refer as much to analogue practice as to the digital finish of 3D modelling.
personal, artistic-research, analog, documentary, landscape, materiality, tool
2016Dissecting Renens
Dissecting Renens is a photographic exploration of the materiality of Renens, a working-class town intertwined with Lausanne, Switzerland. Through photography, sculpture and installation the project examines the shifting fabric of a place shaped by industrial heritage, migration, and ongoing gentrification.
personal, documentary, architecture, landscape, materiality
2015Imminent Security
Creating a secure refuge is a fundamental need of humans. In the urbanized environment, the comprehensible hirarchy of landscape has dissolved in favor of a dynamic and intransparent order. While the
social cohesion became very specific to each neighborhood, it is still easier for us to relate to physical infrastructures to reason our sense of security. The presence of those infrastructures of security may be preceived both as a prevention from threats, as well as signs of a reaction to an imminent threat. Their nature as objects, placed in an existing situation, make them a medium to interpret the surroundings and the feelings of the neighboring community.
personal, documentary, architecture, landscape, sculpture, materiality
2013L’attente
While the swiss society has a humanitarian tradition, its welcome culture exists foremost in an institutionalised structure force placing asylum seekers. These lodges are representative for the federalistic structure of Switzerland with lodges situated in environments ranging from individual housing in a suburban context to unused military lodges on an isolated 2000m mountain pass. For the general public, these places are the only contact area with people claiming for asylum.
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personal, documentary, architecture, landscape
2019 - 2021Automated Photography
Automated Photography is a research project developed by the Master Photography at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. The project examines the changing nature of image production and distribution technologies, such as machine learning, CGI and photogrammetry. On the occasion of Paris Photo 2021, an immersive audiovisual exhibition, a symposium and a book present critical views and a selection of projects that explore the aesthetic and conceptual potential of automated photography.read more ecal, artistic-research, exhibition, book
About
Florian Amoser explores the multi-layered aspects of human perception. Since its invention, photography has served as a means of expanding our observation - a process that is constantly changing as a result of technological progress. In this field of tension, Florian develops his own innovative tools that enable new forms of photographic expression. His works question the boundaries between physical and digital reality and show how our material environment is increasingly merging with abstract, digital-looking visual worlds.
After working in the Bachelor and Master Photography programme at ECAL (2017 - 2022) and in the research project Automated Photography (2019 - 2021 together with Milo Keller and Claus Gunti), he has been focusing on his own artistic practice. Florian studied Transdisciplinarity in the Arts at ZHdK in Zürich (MA, 2025), Photography at the ECAL in Lausanne (BA, 2017) and Architecture at the ETH Zurich (BSc, 2011). Florian is currently based in Olten, Switzerland.
Florian was FUTURES Photography in 2023 (nominated by Photo Elysée, Lausanne), was FOAM Talent in 2019 and received the Photography Prize of the Canton of Solothurn in 2018. His work has been exhibited internationally, including in the Swiss Pavilion at the Art Biennale in Gwangju, South Korea (2023), as part of Automated Photography at Espace Commines in Paris (2021), in Situations on Posthumanism at Fotomuseum Winterthur (2018, CH), as part of FOAM Talent in Amsterdam, New York and Frankfurt, and at several festivals, including Images Vevey (2016).
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