What is then the experimental and structural practice within a certain medium or within particular means of expression? What demonstrates creative and experimental use of technology? What are the methods, techniques, processes and characteristics of artistic language at the turn from the analogue to the digital, from the magnetic tape to a computer disk, from the single channel to the multimedia and new-media projects? In the desire to reverse the dominant discourse on modern video and media artworks, that is favouring a theme, story or context, they focus on a specific media language and artistic expressions characterised by a different approach. They are developing the project together with the artists that they have chosen on the basis of artists’ longstanding work and activities in the field of experimental new media practices. In addition to research, interviews and texts they also prepared a series of opened and closed lectures, screenings, workshops, performances and installations by Neven Korda, Marko Košnik and Miha Vipotnik from January till today. Active involvement of the researchers by means of writing and publishing texts and notes in the project's blog was a gesture to establish an equivalent responsibility for the formulation of statements; that researchers formulate in word and artists in the audio-visual field.

The exhibition at the Match Gallery is going to be realised by Neven Korda and Miha Vipotnik. From very early on, both have detected the potential in media practices, by which they actively intervened in the public sphere: Vipotnik already in the 70s on the television, at video festivals, and galleries; Korda, in the 80s in the context of club culture and media events. Both are concerned with preservation of their own work and would quite often include fragments of past works in their recent projects in order to comment on our attitude towards new technologies, methodologies of work, and communication with the public. In their work, they often collaborate with other artists and act as initiators and organizers of group projects.

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Neven Korda: Dominant Black
How to aestheticize 56 cubic meters of white space? Neven Korda is going to construct a space of "Pure Video" with signals control and screening procedures on the basis of "Do-It-Yourself" principles. The space is going to be composed of layering and fragmentation of the scenes and views with feedback loops, diagrams, and narration by selfreferencing in the sense of composition and decomposition of the history of personal production after 2001. He is going to likewise manipulate the video works, as well as documentations of performance and raw footages. He is going to construct a video installation entitled Dominant black and a workshop environment in the frame of which he is going to stage performances and lectures on his own artistic processes and references, also reflecting on current artistic practice and its conditions of production. Korda is going to enact several performances – agitation, lecturer, radio, emotional-educational, and theatre performance. Towards the very end of the exhibition he is going to attempt to bring items of Home to the Dominant Black.

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Home (J. Petkovšek)
Miha Vipotnik in cooperation with Sergej Kapus and the students of Academy of Fine Arts and Design
The leitmotiv of Vipotnik's installation is a classical Slovenian painting Home (approx. 1889) by Jožef Petkovšek which intrigues him as an unfinished image that directly address the issue of experimentation and modification, as well as for the possibility of actualization of the painting as a sequence from the artist's life, that is burdened by Slovenian "home" and the social climate in this cultural environment which is constantly excluding the artists from the system. He had designed a plan for production of a mimetic picture in the form of a moving image. The sequence is going to be developed in cooperation with students of Academy of Fine Arts and Design Ljubljana, their mentor, and analyst of Petkovšek's work Sergej Kapus, and a group of selected actors. Together, they are going to enable the site specific events, construct a mise-en-scene for processes and games. They are going to record and edit a single sequence in a series of variations, and the entire space is going to become the home and social environment for everybody. Vipotnik is also going to paste convex eyehole with lenses and gaps onto the gallery windows, in order to choreograph an external view of the spectators into the constantly changing space inside, and establish the difference between day and night experience.