ARTCHAE Ar(t)chaeology of Telematic Presence

ARTCHAE is based on the idea that art is capable of establishing modes of
interaction that promote a caring and wellness-oriented approach to human
exchange. Video and installation art have from the beginning focused on
mediated contact between people, experimenting with various forms of
telepresence, only some of which have penetrated the media system, and have
been decisively revived in the post-pandemic era with the triumph of
teleconferencing and telemeeting. The book delves into the history of early video
art to bring to the surface, through a media archaeological approach, some
submerged lines of experimentation in video streaming, telecommunications and
tele-operation. In the logic of an inclusive society and the democratic rewriting
of media and art history, the book aims to explore in particular the experiments
of female pioneers of video and computer art who used the closed-circuit model
- based on the mediation of presence - not so much to reinforce forms of control
and surveillance as to question the nature of the relationship at a distance
mediated by the images.