Vanessa Graf (she/her) is a writer and researcher in critical data studies. From 2020-25, she was a junior researcher at the Critical Media Lab Basel, where she conducted her PhD project Head in the Cloud on the material-semiotic construction of the data center industry in the Alps (SNF grant no.207142). She holds a Bachelor in Political Science from SciencesPo Paris and a Master in Media and Culture Studies from the University of Art and Design Linz. As a side quest, she is completing a BSc. in Biology at the University of Salzburg.
In her research, she is interested in the sociotechnical imaginaries inherent in information systems, and likes to examine the technologization and datafication of nature. In both her research and literary work, she uses language as a method of analysis.
September is my busiest month every year, and I forget that September is my busiest month every year – every year. My priorities are off this year (everything is top priority, all the time), and computer time is scarce, so I am constantly jumping windows and changing between apps. I don’t want to say how…
