Axel Volmar is currently a guest professor at the Institute for Music and Media at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research is on media history, media theory, and the praxeology of media, intersecting with the history of science, infrastructure studies, and disability studies.
Olga Moskatova is professor for media theory at University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main. Her fields of research include theory and aesthetics of visual media, materiality of media, networked images and media of immunization.
Jan Distelmeyer is a professor of media history and media theory in the European Media Studies program of Fachhochschule Potsdam and Universität Potsdam. His current research focuses on the relationship between mediality and digitality with a special interest in interface processes as well as questions of automation and autonomy.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Video Conferencing: Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics 9
A Study Abroad during Covid-19 45
Teaching Into the Void 69
Presence in Video Conferencing in Teaching Contexts as a Means for Positioning Subjects 89
The Anatomy of Zoom Fatigue 109
The Need for Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Video Conferencing 127
Laws of Zoom 135
Video Conferencing as Programmatic Relations 149
Techniques of the Face 169
Sociospatiality between Agency and Fixation 189
Eye Contact with the Machine 209
Performing Video Conferencing and VR for a "Real Virtual Life" 233
"In Eight and a Half Seconds the World Has Changed" 259
Things in the Background 275
People Who Stare at Screens 293
Video Conferencing and Performance Magic 325
Dis/Abling Video Conferences 343
Authors 365