Aesthetics of Narcissism

After building up the argument, "...video art is the the psychological condition of the self split and doubled by the mirror-reflection of synchronous feedback," Krauss makes an interesting comparison between Acconci's Centers and Jasper John's American Flag. Where the nature of the painting is to compare itself to the wall as well as the history of painting, Centers has a meaning that thinks upon the history of itself in its own time. Vito Acconci not only interacts with a camera in his peice, but he also is performs alongside an image of himself while the viewer can see this world of mirrors.

Overall I get a sense that the article argues that video art uses moving images of the world to abstract and separate itself from the world. The screen doesn't really mater in the grand scheme of things because the video lives somewhere between the camera and the screen. All we can do is look in on the representation of that recorded world.