TY - JOUR TI - Tworzywo bez właściwości – technologia cyfrowa jako metamedium AU - Składanek, Marcin TI - Tworzywo bez właściwości – technologia cyfrowa jako metamedium AB - Material without qualities – digital technology as a metamedium    Today, we witness two generative forces of digital media culture meeting – flexible, open, easy-to-use digital technology and large-scale social communication, sharing of in- formation, knowledge and media representations. These two forces are equally important in media convergence and divergence, but also tightly coupled. This paper traces the root of “metamedium” concept, developed in late 70s by Alan Kay, to show that at the beginning two crucial aspects of digital revolution were intentionally connected within the project of creating “personal dynamic media”. Thinking of digital technology as a “material without qualities” – as a open to any transformation, mutation and extension metamedium – has significant impact on new media discourse. Not only because it reveals essential difference between “old” and “new media”, but also because it exposes solid ground for practices od media hybridization, innovation or – using Lev Manovich notion – process of “deep remixability”. VL - 2011 IS - Numer 1 (9) PY - 2011 SN - 1895-975X C1 - 2084-3860 SP - 37 EP - 45 DO - 10.4467/20843860PK.11.004.0225 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/artykul/tworzywo-bez-wlasciwosci-technologia-cyfrowa-jako-metamedium KW - Media culture KW - digital media KW - digital technology KW - social communication KW - metamedium