ARTCHAE is based on the idea that art is capable of establishing modes ofinteraction that promote a caring and wellness-oriented approach to humanexchange. Video and installation art have from the beginning focused onmediated contact between people, experimenting with various forms oftelepresence, only some of which have penetrated the media system, and havebeen decisively revived in the post-pandemic era with the triumph ofteleconferencing and telemeeting. The book delves into the history of early videoart to bring to the surface, through a media archaeological approach, somesubmerged lines of experimentation in video streaming, telecommunications andtele-operation. In the logic of an inclusive society and the democratic rewritingof media and art history, the book aims to explore in particular the experimentsof 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 controland surveillance as to question the nature of the relationship at a distancemediated by the images.