Erica- response 6

I understand when Rosalind Krauss writes about a separation of self caused by reflective video or sound. I was particularly struck by Boomerang because I have experienced the same effect with cell phone echo and I know what it is like to be very distracted by the sound of your own voice. I understand using a video monitor as a mirror to track my movements because I have done it while using skype or google talk. Krauss writes that video’s medium is the psychological effect it has on the viewer reflecting on (or participating in) these dissociations from text, history, and one’s surroundings. Doesn’t that mean that the majority of people using web cameras and cell phones for communication have unknowingly been a part of this psychological media just by experiencing the reflective nature of this technology? This article was written in 1976; I wonder what the author would think if she was writing about this concept in the present time. The use of video, especially in recording oneself, is so widespread today that I think it partially ceases to be as spectacular or profound as she makes it sound.