I don’t like bios or artist statements, sorry.
But you find some bullet points below.
And this is my contact c.brendel[at]posteo.de
and this is my PhD profile.
You also find me on instagram.
UPCOMING/RECENT
. NODE+CODE meetup #24 Feral Circuits. Artist talk together with Igor Štromajer /// Node forum for digital arts, Frankfurt am Main, 19 Aug. 2026
.Debugging reality /// Ars Electronica, Linz, 9-13 Sep. 2026
.Mesh – Festival for Art and Technology, Basel, 14-18 Oct. 2026
SHOWS
(selection)
.Scores of Scores (Unfolding) /// Gallery HBK Saar, Saarbrücken, 2026
.Performing Transformation: Shifting Landscapes in Art, Science, and Technology /// Schaufler Lab, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, 2025
.Hybrid semester of Bits and Atoms exhibition /// Eternal Terra Ear contribution /// Transmedia Research Institute, Milan, 2025
.Mesocosm /// Blue Institute for Futures, Milan, 2025.
.Zollamt Positions 3 /// Zollamt Studios, Offenbach am Main, 2025.
.The Grand Tour /// Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, 2025
.One One One /// in collaboration with the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company /// public and semi-public spaces in Frankfurt am Main, 2024
.Final Works /// Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna, 2023
.”Non-lieu, lieu de sens” Identitäts-Orte und Nicht-Orte in Medienkunst und Performance /// Viertelfestival Niederösterreich, Kirchberg am Wagram, 2022
.Traversing Topologies: Imagining worlds and knowledge with/through artistic research /// Annual Conference/Festival of the Swiss Artistic Research Network, Hospental, 2022
.Resilience and survival strategies /// exhibit studio, Vienna, 2022
.Predictably Unpredictable, a Lab on the Festival of the Future: Unpredictable Time(s) /// Wiener Festwochen, Brut Nordwest, Vienna, 2021
.Guilt Coin in the exhibition “Cybernetics of the Poor” /// Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2021
.Parcours Abschlussarbeiten /// magdas Stephanus-haus Vienna, 2020
TALKS
(selection)
.Extractive Dispositives and Artistic Research Practice /// Migratory Lectures on Extractivism and Art /// Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf and online, 2026
.Alchemical substances: digital ontologies – transmutations and metabolic circulations /// Alchemy today /// 5th European Culture and Technology Lab+ Annual Conference /// Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven, 2025.
.Planetary Screens: Environmental Crisis, Interconnected Lifeworlds, and Sustainability in Film and Screen Media /// Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, 2025.
.Eternal Terra Ear and marine media metabolisms /// presentation together with Yidi Wang /// UN Ocean Conference, ECOP programme, Nice and online, 2025
.Happy history: German colonialism and the Künstlerverein Malkasten /// artist talk at the opening of the exhibition “The Grand Tour”, Künstlerverein
Malkasten, Düsseldorf, 2025.
.Onto-epistemologies of fermenting microbes /// Politics of the Machines Conference Series: “lifelikeness and beyond”, Aachen, 2024.
.Aerobic topologies I-XVII /// Lecture Performance together with Helen McFadzean in the context of the exhibition “resilience and survival strategies”, exhibit studio, Vienna, 2022
.The gaze and the machine - cybernetic epistemologies and crises /// IPPEE Annual Conference “The Pandemic and the Future of Capitalism: On the Political Economy of our Societies and Economies”, SOAS University of London, online, 2021
.The gaze and the machine /// Symposium “Sharing and Responding”, Cooperation of Kunsthalle Wien and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, online, 2021
.Complexity Economics in central banks after the financial crisis /// Finance & Society Annual Conference “Futures of Finance & Society”, Edinburgh, 2018
.Theses on the relationship between marxism and poststructuralism /// Frauen*theorieseminar, Erfurt, 2016.Kvir Solidarity /// QueerFest, St. Petersburg, 2013
EDUCATION
.PhD in Arts /// University of the Arts Bremen and Basel Academy of Arts and Design FHNW, since 2025.
.Master in Critical Studies (artistic class of Dorit Margreiter) /// Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2023
.Master in Economic Sociology & Sociology of Finance /// Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main & École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris, 2018
.Bachelor in Cultural and Social Anthropology /// University of Vienna, 2014
.Basic formation in contemporary dance, performance and improvisation /// bewegungs-art Freiburg, 2010
PUBLICATIONS
.Brendel, C. M. (2026) Leviathan in the Deep. In Viaene et al. (ed.) Trigger #7 Oceans, Amsterdam: Fw:Books (forthcoming)
.Brendel, C. M. (2026) Jinxing the Alchemy of Digital Capitalism: a material-discursive Transmutation. In: “Alchemy Today”,
Conference Proceedings (forthcoming).
.Brendel, C. M. (2025) Aerobic topologies. Vienna: schlebruegge.editor
.Brendel, C. M. & McFadzean, H. (2022) Aerobic topologies I-XVII, artist book.
.Brendel, C. M. (2021) Something like the unintended 3rd that starts acting. In Huber et al. (ed.) Big Critical Energy, schlebruegge.editor: Vienna, p. 202-205.
.Brendel, C. M. (2015) Sexism from the Underground. In Libelle, p. 12-21.
.Brendel, C. M. (2021) Cybernetics of the Rich /// Podcast in the series “Cybersounds” of Kunsthalle Wien.
TEACHING
.Technowitchcraft and the spirit of digital capitalism, University of the Arts Bremen, 2026
.Thinking with water - theories of relationality and intra-activity, University of the Arts Bremen, 2025-2026
GRANTS
.PhD scholarship, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, 2026-2029
.Grant Viertelfestival Project P182 - WE22 „Ins Blickfeld rücken“, Verein Kunst Kultur Kirchberg am Wagram, 2022
.Scholarship Project Financing of the Academy of Fine Arts, 2022
.Advancement Scholarship of the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research, 2021
.Project Funding of the Swiss Artistic Research Network (SARN), 2021
.Project Funding of the Austrian National Student Union, 2021
.Project Funding of the Austrian Student Union from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2021
.Scholarship for feminist and queer research of the Austrian Student Union, 2014
.Merit Scholarship of the University of Vienna, 2012
But you find some bullet points below.
And this is my contact c.brendel[at]posteo.de
and this is my PhD profile.
You also find me on instagram.
UPCOMING/RECENT
. NODE+CODE meetup #24 Feral Circuits. Artist talk together with Igor Štromajer /// Node forum for digital arts, Frankfurt am Main, 19 Aug. 2026
.Debugging reality /// Ars Electronica, Linz, 9-13 Sep. 2026
.Mesh – Festival for Art and Technology, Basel, 14-18 Oct. 2026
SHOWS
(selection)
.Scores of Scores (Unfolding) /// Gallery HBK Saar, Saarbrücken, 2026
.Performing Transformation: Shifting Landscapes in Art, Science, and Technology /// Schaufler Lab, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, 2025
.Hybrid semester of Bits and Atoms exhibition /// Eternal Terra Ear contribution /// Transmedia Research Institute, Milan, 2025
.Mesocosm /// Blue Institute for Futures, Milan, 2025.
.Zollamt Positions 3 /// Zollamt Studios, Offenbach am Main, 2025.
.The Grand Tour /// Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, 2025
.One One One /// in collaboration with the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company /// public and semi-public spaces in Frankfurt am Main, 2024
.Final Works /// Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna, 2023
.”Non-lieu, lieu de sens” Identitäts-Orte und Nicht-Orte in Medienkunst und Performance /// Viertelfestival Niederösterreich, Kirchberg am Wagram, 2022
.Traversing Topologies: Imagining worlds and knowledge with/through artistic research /// Annual Conference/Festival of the Swiss Artistic Research Network, Hospental, 2022
.Resilience and survival strategies /// exhibit studio, Vienna, 2022
.Predictably Unpredictable, a Lab on the Festival of the Future: Unpredictable Time(s) /// Wiener Festwochen, Brut Nordwest, Vienna, 2021
.Guilt Coin in the exhibition “Cybernetics of the Poor” /// Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2021
.Parcours Abschlussarbeiten /// magdas Stephanus-haus Vienna, 2020
TALKS
(selection)
.Extractive Dispositives and Artistic Research Practice /// Migratory Lectures on Extractivism and Art /// Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf and online, 2026
.Alchemical substances: digital ontologies – transmutations and metabolic circulations /// Alchemy today /// 5th European Culture and Technology Lab+ Annual Conference /// Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven, 2025.
.Planetary Screens: Environmental Crisis, Interconnected Lifeworlds, and Sustainability in Film and Screen Media /// Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, 2025.
.Eternal Terra Ear and marine media metabolisms /// presentation together with Yidi Wang /// UN Ocean Conference, ECOP programme, Nice and online, 2025
.Happy history: German colonialism and the Künstlerverein Malkasten /// artist talk at the opening of the exhibition “The Grand Tour”, Künstlerverein
Malkasten, Düsseldorf, 2025.
.Onto-epistemologies of fermenting microbes /// Politics of the Machines Conference Series: “lifelikeness and beyond”, Aachen, 2024.
.Aerobic topologies I-XVII /// Lecture Performance together with Helen McFadzean in the context of the exhibition “resilience and survival strategies”, exhibit studio, Vienna, 2022
.The gaze and the machine - cybernetic epistemologies and crises /// IPPEE Annual Conference “The Pandemic and the Future of Capitalism: On the Political Economy of our Societies and Economies”, SOAS University of London, online, 2021
.The gaze and the machine /// Symposium “Sharing and Responding”, Cooperation of Kunsthalle Wien and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, online, 2021
.Complexity Economics in central banks after the financial crisis /// Finance & Society Annual Conference “Futures of Finance & Society”, Edinburgh, 2018
.Theses on the relationship between marxism and poststructuralism /// Frauen*theorieseminar, Erfurt, 2016.Kvir Solidarity /// QueerFest, St. Petersburg, 2013
EDUCATION
.PhD in Arts /// University of the Arts Bremen and Basel Academy of Arts and Design FHNW, since 2025.
.Master in Critical Studies (artistic class of Dorit Margreiter) /// Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2023
.Master in Economic Sociology & Sociology of Finance /// Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main & École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris, 2018
.Bachelor in Cultural and Social Anthropology /// University of Vienna, 2014
.Basic formation in contemporary dance, performance and improvisation /// bewegungs-art Freiburg, 2010
PUBLICATIONS
.Brendel, C. M. (2026) Leviathan in the Deep. In Viaene et al. (ed.) Trigger #7 Oceans, Amsterdam: Fw:Books (forthcoming)
.Brendel, C. M. (2026) Jinxing the Alchemy of Digital Capitalism: a material-discursive Transmutation. In: “Alchemy Today”,
Conference Proceedings (forthcoming).
.Brendel, C. M. (2025) Aerobic topologies. Vienna: schlebruegge.editor
.Brendel, C. M. & McFadzean, H. (2022) Aerobic topologies I-XVII, artist book.
.Brendel, C. M. (2021) Something like the unintended 3rd that starts acting. In Huber et al. (ed.) Big Critical Energy, schlebruegge.editor: Vienna, p. 202-205.
.Brendel, C. M. (2015) Sexism from the Underground. In Libelle, p. 12-21.
.Brendel, C. M. (2021) Cybernetics of the Rich /// Podcast in the series “Cybersounds” of Kunsthalle Wien.
TEACHING
.Technowitchcraft and the spirit of digital capitalism, University of the Arts Bremen, 2026
.Thinking with water - theories of relationality and intra-activity, University of the Arts Bremen, 2025-2026
GRANTS
.PhD scholarship, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, 2026-2029
.Grant Viertelfestival Project P182 - WE22 „Ins Blickfeld rücken“, Verein Kunst Kultur Kirchberg am Wagram, 2022
.Scholarship Project Financing of the Academy of Fine Arts, 2022
.Advancement Scholarship of the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research, 2021
.Project Funding of the Swiss Artistic Research Network (SARN), 2021
.Project Funding of the Austrian National Student Union, 2021
.Project Funding of the Austrian Student Union from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2021
.Scholarship for feminist and queer research of the Austrian Student Union, 2014
.Merit Scholarship of the University of Vienna, 2012