Authors
- Francesca Bergamini
Francesca Bergamini (b. 1981, Italy) is a conceptual photographer whose work explores beauty, digital imagery, and representation. After earning a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the University of Ferrara in 2006, she worked as a 3D Architectural Visual Artist in London and New York. She studied at the International Center of Photography and later joined the MA in Photography at ÉCAL in Lausanne. Her work has been exhibited at PhotoVogue Festival in Milan, PHmuseum Days in Bologna, the Biennale dell’Immagine in Chiasso, the Rencontres d’Arles, and Offprint Paris. In 2025, she received her Master of Arts in Design, Major in Photography, from ÉCAL.
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- Paolo Cirio
Paolo Cirio has exhibited in international museums and his artworks have been covered by hundreds of media outlets. Cirio has won a number of awards, including Golden Nica first prize at Ars Electronica in Linz, 2014; Transmediale second prize in Berlin, 2006; Eyebeam Fellowship, 2012; and NEA grant at ISCP in NYC, 2017; among others.
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- Simone C Niquille
Simone C Niquille is a Swiss designer and researcher based in Amsterdam NL. Through technoflesh Studio she produces films and writing that investigate computation as the new optics. Her work is concerned with vision technologies, the images they make and the worlds they create - from computer vision, 3d animation, computational photography to synthetic training datasets. Her work advocates for non-binary technology and against machine learning as a tool to validate and instrumentalize assumptions and reduce reality
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- Min Dai
Artist
InstagramMin Dai, born in 1998 in China, lives and works between Lausanne and Beijing. Her multidisciplinary practice explores photography, image-making, and visual research, often drawing on personal memory, bodily perception, and the tension between desire and restraint. She studied Product Design at BIFT, developing sensitivity to form and material, and earned a Master’s in Photography from ECAL in 2025. Her work blends portraiture with AI, collage, and material interventions, often using datasets of personal portraits, fashion archives, and textures like skin, hair, and desserts. Through surreal and intimate visual constructions, she examines identity, emotional hunger, cultural pressure, and feminine performance. Min’s process, grounded in emotional resonance, employs repetition and layering to move viewers from narrative into sensation, blurring the line between real and artificial while questioning how images shape and aestheticize experience.
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- Marco De Mutiis
Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur
WebsiteMarco De Mutiis is a Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur where he leads the museum research on algorithmic and networked images. He leads and co-curates different projects and platforms expanding the role and the space of the museum. He co-curated with Matteo Bittanti the group exhibition How to Win at Photography – Image-making as Play, exploring the photographic act through the act of play and the notion of games. He has written, edited and contributed to several publications, including the recent book The Photographer’s Guide to Los Santos (written with Matteo Bittanti), Fotoludica (co-edited with Matteo Bittanti), Screen Images – In-Game Photography, Screenshot, Screencast (co-edited with Winfried Gerling and Sebastian Möring).
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- Claus Gunti
Art historian, writer and curator
WebsiteClaus 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.
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- Felicity Hammond
Felicity Hammond is an artist and educator based in London. She received an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in London in 2014 and a PhD in Contemporary Art Research from Kingston University in 2021. She has exhibited at institutions internationally including C/O Berlin, Fotomuseum Winterthur and Kunsthal Extra City Antwerp, amongst others. Her ongoing artistic research into the extractive properties of photography will be exhibited at The Photographer’s Gallery, London in 2025.
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- Eriko Miyata
Eriko Miyata (b.1993) is a Japanese artist based in Switzerland, completed an MA at ECAL (2025). Her practice explores the expanded field of photography through AI, CGI, and digital imagery, focusing on glitches, low-resolution aesthetics, and the materiality of screens. Engaging with feminist and cultural perspectives shaped by her experience as an immigrant, their work examines memory, technology, and the representation of Japanese women in contemporary visual culture.
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- Visvaldas Morkevicius
Artist
WebsiteVisvaldas Morkevicius (b. 1990) is a Lithuanian artist whose work explores the boundaries of photography through personal experience and reflections on society. His practice examines how technology, media, and power shape perception, identity, and emotion in contemporary life. Working across photography and interdisciplinary media, he investigates disconnection, resilience, and the tension between intimacy and detachment. Blending minimalism with layered narratives, Visvaldas creates works that question how digital systems influence relationships, memory, and agency. His practice reveals the emotional and ethical complexities of living in a hyperconnected world. He holds an MA in Photography from ECAL, Switzerland (2025).
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- Mirielle Rohr
Berlin-born and raised visual artist and photographer Mirielle Rohr is currently based in Paris. Her work merges analogue photography, AI, and sculpture to explore representations of womanhood and girlhood shaped by internet culture and social media. She completed her master's degree in photography at ECAL in 2025. Furthermore she has worked in fashion photography in Paris, was published in magazines such as SLEEK Magazine, Fisheye Magazine, Schemamagazine and many more, while also having been finalist for the Picto Fashion Photography Award in 2024. This year, in 2025, she is one of the winners of the Carte Blanche for students at Paris Photo and will also be exhibiting at the Photo Vogue Festival in 2026.
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- Alan Warburton
Alan Warburton is a creative technologist working with CGI, XR, AR, ML and AI between industry, academia and the arts. In 2023 he released The Wizard of AI (commissioned by the Open Data Institute and featured in the Guardian), and in 2021 helped launch Better Images of AI, an influential stock image collection developed with the BBC’s R&D department to counter obfuscatory myths of AI. His 2020 solo exhibition RGBFAQ at London’s arebyte gallery considered how multi-modal synthetic datasets inform the operation of machine vision systems.
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