Carolin Melia Brendel is a media artist, artistic researcher and sociologist of finance. Her work explores the multimodal nexus between power relations and knowledge formations using transmedial, installative and anti-disciplinary methods. For her PhD Project on hardware metabolisms at the University of the Arts Bremen and the Basel Academy of Art and Design, she examines material-discursive cycles of digital infrastructures and their entanglement with the deep ocean hydrosphere in the context of digital capitalism.

Her artistic solo and group works have been shown in the context of Baltan Laboratories Eindhoven, Schaufler Lab Dresden, Wiener Festwochen, Kunsthalle Wien, Künstlerverein Malkasten Düsseldorf, Swiss Artistic Research Network and Blue Institute of Futures Milan a. o. She is author of the book Aerobic Topologies (2025) published with Schlebrügge.editor.