Florian Dombois


Florian Dombois is an artist who focuses on time, landforms, labilities, seismic and tectonic activity, as well as on their various representational and media formats.
Dombois studied geophysics and philosophy in Berlin, Kiel and Hawaii, and wrote his PhD in Amsterdam and Berlin. After that, he has developed a concept of "Art as Research" to challenge modernism in art and scientific modes of expression. His oeuvre includes spatial and sound installations, but also happenings and performances. 2003-2011 he was heading the , and was president of the research council at . Since 2011 he is professor at Zurich University of the Arts. In 2010 he received the :de:Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis|German Sound Art Prize.

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