This project of transfiguration can encompass all subject matter. Issues of gender, ethnicity, social parity, individuation and cultural reclamation can be addressed with forthright lucidity. Formal experimentation is not a limiting factor as is often announced, but a liberating practice that allows both artist and audience to survey critical ideas in unfettered ways. It is worth reiterating that the decision to abandon conventional form is informed by a politic underlying the aesthetic . Ironically, this posits change as an inconspicuous alteration at best, a self-negating sham at worst.
Experimental media demands a total renovation in both perception and thinking .
The discoveries and revelations that lead to change come only after exertion, whether it be intellectual, aesthetic, or political. It is at the juncture of art and use value that experimental media parts company with common practice. Under the banner of functionality, it is presumed that media aids in a corrective understanding of the world and, subsequently, inspires an altered response in the audience . Functionality is also related to topicality and so mediaworks are called upon for a spontaneous revision of the viewers' sense of their own historical moment. Films and tapes serve as panaceas, quick-fixes for social wrong or political inequity.