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This article offers an introduction to the complex area of media art laboratories which emerged along with the development of the art of new technologies. They came as a response to the need to search for new methods of cooperation that transgresses beyond disciplines, and to explore the potential of the previously impossible encounters of the world of art with the world of science. The art of new media has developed a completely different model of functioning in the world of art, enriching traditional exhibition practices which now include new educational and research formats. The primary aim of this text is to present a critical reflection on the role of contemporary media art laboratories. While analysing selected examples from the past, the author asks questions about the current challenges faced by art as a laboratory whose main task is to study reality and social relations, also in terms of contemporary culture and its technological aspects.