Sonia Fizek is a games and media scholar. She holds a professorship in Media and Game Studies at the Cologne Game Lab. Fizek is also a co-editor-in-chief of the international Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds and a principal investigator of “Greening Games”, an international project on the sustainability of video games (funded by the German Academic Exchange Service EU/DAAD).
In her upcoming monograph Playing at a Distance (MIT Press 2022), she explores the borderlands of video game aesthetic with focus on automation, AI and posthuman forms of play.