Florian Appelt, born in Vienna in 1992, studied fine arts with a focus on graphic design and printmaking at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 2013 to 2018 and completed a doctoral degree in the digital art market in 2023. His works have been shown in national and international exhibitions in Europe, including Stockholm, Berlin and the Netherlands. 

The Silicon series of works addresses the interface between humans and machines. The title refers both to Silicon Valley as the birthplace of digitalisation and to the element silicon, which is of fundamental importance in semiconductor production as well as in the human body. Appelt thereby takes up a material metaphor that inextricably intertwines technology and organic matter. His surfaces are reminiscent of the smooth aesthetics of digital screens, but are broken up by amorphous, meaty structures. This tension manifests the intertwining of technological rationality and human physicality. Silicon thus becomes a microscopic snapshot of a society whose self-image is increasingly shaped by digital processes.