“Both there but not there, both hypervisible yet estranged, the Zoom-display rendered faces of colleagues, peers, and friends are now a regular fixture of our homes, reshaping the dynamics of people’s private domestic spaces and interpersonal relations. Lovink (2020) calls this a state of ‘video vertigo,’ an expression used to describe the physical and mental load that comes from conflating work and leisure in the same physical space. Others have invoked the term ‘zoom fatigue’ to describe the disaffection that results from consecutive hours spent examining our own and other’s faces on the digital screen.”
Tyne Daile Sumner, “Zoom Face: Self-Surveillance, Performance and Display,” 2022
Instructions
Go to your apartment.
Attach a camera on a tripod.
Aim the camera at the wall you use as a background for Zoom meetings.
Set up the camera to automatically shoot a photograph at regular intervals.
Run around the camera without being captured in the photographs.
Run around the camera until it dies.
Repeat this exercise every month for a year.
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (January 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 43.4 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (January 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 43.4 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (January 2022) (detail)
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (February 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 43.4 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (February 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 43.4 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (February 2022) (detail)
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (March 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 44.8 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (March 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 44.8 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (March 2022) (detail)
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (April 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 43.4 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (April 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 43.4 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (April 2022) (detail)
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (May 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 42 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (May 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 42 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (May 2022) (detail)
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (June 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 43.4 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (June 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 43.4 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (June 2022) (detail)
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (July 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 44.8 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (July 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 44.8 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (July 2022) (detail)
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (August 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 44.8 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (August 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 44.8 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (August 2022) (detail)
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (September 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 44.8 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (September 2022), inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond, 86.8 x 44.8 inches, 2022
How to Cope with Zoom Fatigue (September 2022) (detail)