If narrative video presents a clearly defined linearity, then its experimental form is a completely open semantic platform. With their artistic research, the early experimental video artists showed their fascination with (then) new media in order to celebrate the era of new possibilities of communication and artistic expression. Even without a clearly structured dramaturgy these works offer also a lot of content. Experimental moving images are not entirely controlled endeavour, they rather test the ability of the media without (fully) expected results; therefore they do not convey an explicit message, but rather open the fields of possible interpretations. Despite their formalist approach, they are making a significant testimony of the context of the space and time, which inspired them. MC

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Experiment in the modern sense of the word can not be thought outside of the concept of population that is associated with the understanding of economics as a natural process. Through manipulation of the population the universal economy is to create “better” conditions for life. This happens also in arts where experiment is focused on improving the aesthetic effect, to better the presentation and distribution conditions and the involvement of the viewer. In this context, video experiment is a relatively specific field – on the one hand it is connected to technological issues, on the other hand, it refers to the artistic practices. Conducting a research of experiment in video art would lead to analysis of these two parallel currents in order to show where and how they meet. This is how it would be possible to better understand the trajectories of new media today. AP

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