Carolin Melia Brendel is a media artist, artistic researcher and sociologist of finance. Her work explores knowledge formations and their polymorphic consequences using transmedial, installative, post-anthropocentric and collaborative methods. She develops postdisciplinary onto-epistemologies at the interface of art and science in the form of material-discursive apparatuses. Brendel is currently completing her PhD in artistic research on the financialization of the deep sea at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Basel FHNW and the University of the Arts Bremen. Her artistic practice is informed by her multidisciplinary background in Critical Studies and Video Art (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Sociology of Finance (Goethe University Frankfurt & École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris) and Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Vienna). Her artistic solo and group works have been presented in the context of Wiener Festwochen, Kunsthalle Wien, Künstlerverein Malkasten Düsseldorf, Swiss Artistic Research Network and Politics of the Machines, among others.