“Video has the ability to travel across space and time as well as offering a short-term, anti-ageing aid to vanity. It can also bring space and time together.”
With the clear differences in video technology from the past and today, it is distinguish the time difference as seen on the quality of the videos. However, as technology exponentially improves, the differences in quality almost become insignificant to the viewer’s eye. Additionally, the advances in post-editing could potentially remove the differences in time of the video clips. An artist could now deceive a person into thinking that it is a live-relay, rather, than a prerecorded video or vice-versa. This brings us to Acconci’s Claim Excerpts, where the author suggests that “believing ones eyes no longer seemed a reliable strategy for survival.” The ability to make a video seem real or fake provides an enormous amount of power to an artist or a corporation. They could manipulate it to relay their message positively or negatively. But it also gives an artist a lot more flexibility in creating new works of art that deals with this absence of time. Now, it’s up to them to make a good use of it.