Artist, Filmmaker, and AI researcher
Claudia Larcher is an artist, filmmaker, and AI researcher who views photography not merely as a technical medium but as a globally interconnected practice with social and political significance. Her work spans video animation, collage, photography, and installation, focusing on the impacts and experimental uses of artificial intelligence. By combining traditional and modern methods of image production, she translates digital concepts into physical spaces, exploring the materiality of the digital and perceptions of reality. Rooted in a “phygital” (physical and digital) perspective, her practice redefines the boundaries between traditional and modern media forms. She investigates the entanglement of photography and artificial intelligence, the materiality of algorithmic images, and the relationship between photography and ecology, contributing to current debates on digital humanism and automated or post-human photography.
Based in Vienna, she has presented her work in numerous exhibitions in Austria and abroad, including Tokyo Wonder Site (Japan), Slought Foundation Philadelphia, the Weimar Art Festival, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), Gray Area Festival San Francisco, Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Manifesta 13 and Anthology Film Archives in NYC.
Currently, she is a resident of ARTTEC programme at AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology).