Research Assistant at the Research Centre for Technoaesthetics

Amelie Buchinger is a research assistant at the Research Centre for Techno Aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. She holds a BA in Szenische Künste from Hildesheim University and a MA in Global Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London. After her studies, she worked as a program coordinator for transmediale and as a project assistant at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. From 2020 to 2023, she was a research assistant in the DFG Research Training Group Cultures of Critique at Leuphana University Lüneburg, where she is currently also doing her PhD.

In her dissertation, she develops a media cultural history of digital decarbonization, ranging from the beginnings of double-entry bookkeeping in the 15th century to the current climate visions of a net-zero world in the mid-21st century. Going beyond the popularly discussed question of the carbon footprint of digital media applications, she examines, among other things, how the cultural significance of CO₂ is negotiated in media culture, how genealogies and cultural logics of digitality are inscribed in the techno-economic control narratives of market-based climate policy and which alternative media practices, politics and aesthetics are emerging within the contours of a possible post-fossil internet.