Ryszard W. Kluszczyński NEW MEDIA ART Introduction The term “new media art” covers numerous, diverse phenomena with their own specific properties. I will present these properties in the following discourse. The diversity within this field sometimes leads to attempts at defining new media art by juxtaposing its numerous types. However, such a definition renders the term meaningless, yielding in essence merely a collective term encompassing a variety of individually defined types. Moreover, it fails to provide criteria that would indicate the reasons for considering these particular types to be forms of new media art. This term should, therefore, not be defined in reference to individual media or a juxtapositioning of a number of them, but by indicating what unites them and makes them types of new media art. This requires identifying the properties that make new media “new”, that is, different from previous dominant media. The field of new media art remains unstable, constantly in a process of transformation. This is so not merely because of the emergence of new and different types of media, but also because of the transformations constantly taking place in the multidirectional relations between them, including those resulting from processes such as technological convergence, divergence, and remediation, which shape different media configurations and produce hybrid forms. At the same time, however, this fact does not mean we are dealing with a process of substitution, that newer media merely supplant those that preceded them in time and assume their position and status, thereby becoming “newer” new media. On the contrary, within certain limits defined by their properties, newer media join older forms, thus expanding the overall field of new media and deepening its internal differentiation. This is precisely what has occurred in new media art, whose individual types, although seemingly rooted in the characteristics of the new media that gave birth to them, in fact, have acquired their own character and status in relation to the overall new media environment.