If it is composed of context, there is no other time but now.

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Considering that works have context (context can become everything), there are many things that cannot be understood unless you experience the work at that moment. For example, even if the expression of this media art had novelty at the time, it now seems too obvious to be universal when viewed from the present.

In other words, even if you watch Eva now and think "this is a common one," at the time it was the latest, and the fact that "common ones" were influenced by Eva. Its value can only be felt now.