Acknowledgements

First and foremost, I would like to thank my partner, Stefanie, for her incredible support, patience and encouragement for this obsessive project.

Thank you also to my parents, Caroline and Christian, and my brother, Simon.

This project would not have been possible without the long-standing support of many people around me. Thank you for your time: in discussing the project, in exploring conceptual ideas, in providing feedback on engineering approaches, by collaborating to produce images, in supporting the project to be presented in an exhibition setting or simply by repeatedly helping me to move objects far too heavy for a single person. The following list is ordered alphabetically. Thank you all!

Pietro Alberti, Marianne Amoser, Ann-Christin Bertrand, Nicolo Bernasconi, Sharon Chan, Antoine Chessex, Lison Christe, Kyungwoo Chun, Calum Douglas, Henryetta Duerschlag, Rony Emmenegger, Claus Gunti, Ingrid Hölzle, Youngho Jeong, Suna Kim, Dojoung Kim, Kim Knoppers, Milo Keller, Charles Kwong, Miguel La Plante-Perez, Thomas Le Provost, Sébastien Matos, Antoine Martin, Patrick Müller, Marco de Mutiis, Ferdinand Niedermann, Marco Poloni, Lino Rebuffoni, Marcel Rickli, Basil Rogger, Lukas Schmid, Joël Vacheron, Irene Vögeli, Lars Willumeit, Anastasiia Tatarenko, Egor Tatarenko, Livia Zumofen.

Thank you to everyone I worked with or learned from during my time at ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne, as well as in the research project Automated Photography. ECAL is an incredible melting pot for photography, and this project is deeply inspired by the observations and insights I gained while studying and working there. Merci Milo and the whole team and students.

Also, thank you also to everyone at the Master Transdisciplinarity Studies in the Arts program at ZHdK / Zürich University of the Arts. Without the countless discussions, the great support and open framework provided for developing this project, it would not be what it has become. Thank you Patrick and the whole MTR!

Thank you to everyone who supports open-source software, open-source hardware, and open access to knowledge. This project would not have been possible without your contributions. I would especially like to acknowledge the following projects: LinuxCNC, Voron Design and Blender.