I thought it was interesting to see how artists have different approaches to using time as a medium in video art. The article opens up by discussing Clement Greenberg's evaluation of Modernism requires "each discipline must search for and determine what is unique and irreducible to that art." In this way, video art using time as medium practices this Modernist viewpoint through the inherent qualities of video as a recorded representation of space and time - one that can be experienced both through the present and past.
I found Dan Graham's Present Continuous Past(s) reflective of this. Because of the placement of the monitor in the mirrored room, the piece forces the viewer to focus upon the actual space as opposed to their own image reflected. In the work, time is repeated again and again through the mirrors constant reflection and the viewer retains a heightened awareness of the space they are in.
Bill Viola's Decay Time was also interesting to me because of its reliance upon the viewers interaction and memory. By isolating a specific event and quick, Viola forces the viewer to rely upon or create their own perception of time and space.
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