Florian Amoser

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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. 
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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
2025
Portfolio Commissioned Work Florian Amoser’s commissioned work focuses on themes of design and complexity, addressing visual challenges brought by increasing digitalisation. Contemporary issues are often hidden within networks and processes. As a result, these issues are difficult to capture through photography. Florian draws on the tradition of scientific photography, developing artistic and technical tools, employing a range of analogue, digital, and post-photographic techniques. His approach transforms hidden complexities into structured, visually precise photographic images.

With works for: 
Bureau Brunner for Vitra
Agence W, Paris
Maxwell Ashford for Kvadrat
Studio Harry Gugger, Basel
Pictet & Cie Group, Geneva
U-Joints (Annina Koivu, Andrea Caputo)
Archithese, Zürich
Condor SA, Courfaivre
Lukas Lenherr Architektur
ZHdK, Triple Instruments Research Project

commissioned, analog, digital, cgi, lidar, still-life, architecture, landscape, materiality
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
©2025 Florian Amoser, florian@amoser.ch, +41 78 860 6598