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Maciej Korsan

I build digital platforms for a living. After hours: odd machines and art.

I live and make things in Białystok, Poland.

Projects

2026

  1. Film still: two 3D-rendered spheres covered in Programistok logos on a navy background, with a yellow “Telezakupy Bulwa” teleshopping bar along the bottom
    • film
    • 3D

    Programistok 2026 – promo film

    “Why go to two conferences?” – script, animation, editing

  2. A white dormitory tower in Białystok with a mural of two green pickles and speech bubbles reading “Kiś ogórki…” and “…nie emocje!”, a street and trees in the foreground
    • photography
    • public space

    “Kiś ogórki, nie emocje” mural

    drone photo documentation of a mental-health mural on a Medical University dorm

    • hardware
    • photography

    Game Boy Camera photo booth

    Game Boy Camera + Super Nintendo

  4. Pixel art in Game Boy greens: a character in a cap standing in a square with the Programistok logo, surrounded by trees, paths, signposts and other characters
    • game

    Programistok Game Boy game

    a real ROM for the original Game Boy, playable in the browser

  5. A row of black wooden totems topped with small solar panels along a path in Zwierzyniecki Forest
    • installation
    • sound, hardware, public space

    Ambient Totems

    co-creator and co-initiator; designed and hand-built the technology and electronics; up to 500 visitors a day on weekends

  6. Lecture hall at wroclove.rb 2026: the audience holding their phones, with a screen in front showing a grid of yellow rectangles, one per participant
    • live
    • sound, web

    teraz.live

    Collective Live Ambient Experience

    • radio
    • DJ

    Up To Date Show

    co-hosted a Radio Akadera show on electronic music and independent culture, as korsi.space, with Kamil Walter / Siberialist

    • craft
    • collaboration

    Clock

    clock mechanism and programming, with Alicja Wysocka

    • object
    • 3D

    Disco Ogór

    handmade object, 3D scanning and manual work

    • installation
    • collaboration

    Tech support for Rafał Zajko

    installation at Galeria Arsenał

    • AR
    • exhibition

    Dziwnostki

    AR piece at the exhibition “To nie jest karnawał”

    • live
    • sound

    korsi.space live

    music stage of the “To nie jest karnawał” exhibition

2025

  1. Still from the “Čyrvone Nebo” video: Niczos in 3D glasses in a meadow, people dancing behind her
    • video
    • collaboration

    Sw@da x Niczos – drone footage

    drone shots for the “Čyrvone Nebo” video and the “Podlasie Bounce Universe” documentary

  2. Marcin Tomkiel in a jacket and tie among tall dry grasses on a dark stage
    • installation
    • theatre, collaboration

    Grasses

    for the play “Forest Road 8995”

    • hardware
    • IoT

    Game Boy with e-paper

    IoT picture frame inside a Game Boy

    • live
    • sound

    Beyond Code live act

    premiere of my ambient material written for yoga

    • photography
    • charity

    Game Boy Camera charity session

    pixel photo session auctioned at the 4th Latający Salon Ambientu; all proceeds to family children’s homes

  6. Hundreds of people lying on mats on the grass in the Lower Garden of the Branicki Palace, with a weeping willow and an arcaded wall behind them
    • photography
    • publication

    Yoga on holiday

    photo story of outdoor yoga in the Branicki gardens, published by Radio Akadera

2024

  1. Slide showing the number 1964 on a beige circle, with a small inset of the speaker at a laptop on the Beyond Code stage
    • talk
    • sound, web

    From code editor to art gallery

    a talk on generative music in the browser: Beyond Code 2024, meet.js Białystok 2025

    2024–2025

  2. A grid of greenish, pixelated Game Boy Camera photos in frames reading Nintendo and Game Boy: a man's portrait, a festival scene, leaves
    • photography
    • media

    Game Boy Camera photography

    bitless.photo: shooting with the original 1998 camera and printing on the Game Boy Printer

    2024–2025

    • workshop

    Dalekie Horyzonty workshop

    “Creative visuals in practice”, as a participant

2023

  1. Night drone view of Up To Date Festival 2023: a crowd in red light in front of the stage, lit-up tents and forest all around
    • photography
    • collaboration

    Up To Date Festival photography

    festival photos published by the organisers, including drone shots

    2023–2026

    • DJ
    • sound

    Ambient w elektrowni

    ambient afternoons with Projekt New Hope during the exhibition “Duby smalone” at Galeria Arsenał

    • hardware
    • photography

    Photo booth kiosk for devstyle

    I Love Dev conference

  4. A black letter “P.” on a cream background with a soft peach glow – the POGWAR logo
    • live
    • sound, web

    POGWAR

    generative ambient in the browser; live act at Galeria Arsenał

    • visuals
    • live

    Dancing Voxels

    Kinect scans dancers at techno nights and turns them into voxels

2022

    • photography

    Latający Salon Ambientu

    photo documentation of Up To Date Festival's charity balloon flights with live ambient sets

    2022–2024

  2. Projekt New Hope DJ school: a young man pulls a record from a crate, with turntables, a Traktor mixer and a laptop showing the New Hope logo in front of him
    • DJ
    • collective

    Projekt New Hope

    co-founded a Białystok DJ collective: a manifesto, showcases in Białystok and Gdynia, ambient afternoons at Galeria Arsenał

    2022–2023

  3. Drone view of the front wall of the children’s hospital in Białystok with a mural: a bear doctor with a stethoscope, a hippo, a crocodile on crutches, a bee and a fox in a wheelchair
    • photography
    • public space

    UDSK mural

    drone photo documentation of the new mural at the University Children’s Clinical Hospital in Białystok

    • photography

    Digital stereoscopic photography

  5. People at the bar of FOMO club in red light
    • photography
    • 3D

    FOMO

    mixed arts for the club, photography and 3D prints

  6. A white Macintosh 128K built from LEGO bricks with the rainbow Apple logo; the screen shows the number 12044, with a stormtrooper minifigure standing beside it
    • hardware

    LEGO Macintosh 128K

    with a working screen; first version in 2017

2021

  1. The word “korsi.space” in a black serif typeface on a pale grey background, with an orange dot
    • DJ
    • sound

    korsi.space

    my DJ alias: from club FOMO to ambient sets and radio

    2021–2026

  2. White letters reading KORSAN 2000 on brown shredded paper, surrounded by an orange camera, memory cards, a stormtrooper figure and an instant photo
    • exhibition
    • photography, sound, web

    KORSAN:2000

    pandemic online audio-photo exhibition marking photo no. 2000 of One Photo a Day

2019

  1. Drone view of a high-rise on Skłodowskiej-Curie Street in Białystok with a mural of Grandma Eugenia and the words “Wyślij pocztówkę dla Babci”
    • photography
    • video, public space, award

    Send a postcard to Grandma

    photo documentation of the mural and drone footage for the film “Niespodzianka”; KTR Bronze and nomination

    2019–2023

    • talk
    • media

    DevTalk #96

    guest on Maciej Aniserowicz's podcast, talking about how to learn frontend

2018

  1. Aerial view of Tykocin Castle wrapped in pink morning mist at sunrise
    • photography
    • publication

    Photos in tourism publications

    my photos of Podlasie used by podlaskie.travel and the regional “Turystyczna Ósemka” bus line, including Tykocin Castle

    2018–2026

  2. LEGO Star Wars figures, a stormtrooper and Darth Vader with a lightsaber, next to a Zenit camera and a glowing sign reading KORSAN:1000
    • exhibition
    • photography

    KORSAN:1000

    multimedia exhibition marking photo no. 1000 of One Photo a Day

  3. The words “MÓJ KOD” under Programistok's curly-brace logo, over a dimmed scene of two people at a table
    • art direction
    • sound

    Programistok 2018

    wrote the words and music for the promo song “Mój kod”, performed with Dziemian

  4. Smiling man holding a black meet.js Białystok tote bag out towards the camera
    • talk
    • web, photography

    meet.js Special

    closed meet.js's summer edition in Białystok with “Frontend is an art”, and photographed the event

2017

  1. ZX Spectrum emulator screen reading “inside your home computer are…”, followed by the names of Radiohead's members, Nigel Godrich and Stanley Donwood, and the date 19th December 1996
    • media
    • publication

    Radiohead OKNOTOK: ZX Spectrum

    we got the program hidden on the reissue's tape running; Gizmodo, Stereogum, Ars Technica and a Polskie Radio Białystok show

    • exhibition
    • photography

    8 years of Up To Date Festival

    my photo in the open-air exhibition on Rynek Kościuszki

  3. A hand holding a phone showing a blue Millennium Falcon blueprint above the LEGO model lit in blue; the words Millennium-Falcon.js beside it
    • hardware
    • IoT

    IoT LEGO Millennium Falcon

    a Raspberry Pi and JavaScript inside a LEGO Falcon, controlled from a phone

    2017–2019

  4. Title slide: disco.js in red, with “meet.js Białystok, special summer edition 2017” below and a small drawing of a dancing figure
    • web
    • visuals, sound, talk

    DiscoJS

    half talk, half disco: the Web Audio and Web MIDI APIs at meet.js in Białystok

  5. Green village sign reading “Programistok” engulfed in yellow and white flare smoke, in a meadow full of chamomile
    • art direction
    • video, live, photography

    Programistok 2017

    promo film with a folk ensemble, a browser-made intro played live, and photos of the conference

  6. Białystok City Hall built from a dozen orange, white and green LEGO bricks on a dark background
    • photography

    Brickstock

    photo series of LEGO and Białystok buildings

  7. The tower of Białystok's town hall at dusk, with a street lamp, trees and a vertical sign reading Podlasie in the foreground
    • photography
    • publication

    Smiling town hall

    chosen as Photo of the Day by ESKA INFO

2016

  1. Still from the video “365 dni korsana”: a man holding a “365” sign among a dozen people and photo prints hanging in the room
    • exhibition
    • photography

    One Photo a Day / 365

    first One Photo a Day exhibition, wrapping up the project's first year

  2. Prisma-filtered still from the video: the singer in sunglasses snaps his fingers, with “Dziemian & Ken Lee – Jimi Johnson” in the corner
    • video

    Dziemian & Ken Lee – Jimi Johnson

    music video made of 2135 frames processed with Prisma; reported as the first of its kind in Poland. Idea, images and production

  3. Film still: a man in a blue hoodie sits on a park bench, arms spread wide
    • film

    Lekcja muzyki

    58-second short; ŻUBROFFKA 2016 Amateurs competition and Filmowe Podlasie Atakuje! Reaktywacja 2016

  4. Silhouette of a man holding a ukulele on the dark Front-Trends stage, with “an ukulele song” on the screen behind him
    • live
    • sound, web, talk

    Frontend is an art

    a Front-Trends 2016 lightning talk sung on ukulele instead of slides; later a full talk built on demos

    2016–2018

  5. Three hooded men hunched over an old computer in a dark, cluttered basement – a still from the Programistok 2016 music video
    • art direction
    • video, award

    Programistok 2016

    promo music video “Coders Paradise & Kodzić chcę”: script, direction, camera and edit; NowyMarketing's Ad of the Day

  6. Copies of the “Białystok na cały rok 2017” wall calendar spread out on a table
    • photography
    • award

    Białystok city calendar

    two of my photos, spring and winter, won the city photo contest for the calendar

2015

  1. Macro shot of an iris in violet light, with a white X made of two LED lights reflected in it
    • photography

    One Photo a Day

    3650 daily photographs, one every day for ten years

    2015–2025

2014

    • live
    • sound, visuals

    Ambient live act in the Borki forest

    bass and visuals projected onto tree leaves

2013

  1. Still from the video: Dziemian in a dimly lit reading room, lamp lights blurred behind him
    • video
    • charity

    Dziemian – Seems Like the Love (part I)

    music video, camera; made for the “Help them” charity project

  2. Film still: a dancer lies on a wooden floor, framed by the words “Dla Ciebie to 5 minut” and “Dla Kogoś to całe życie”
    • film
    • charity, collaboration

    Dla Ciebie to 5 minut, dla Kogoś to całe życie

    dance film for the DKMS Foundation; choreography by Akademia Tańca Szał

  3. Natalia Rak's mural of a girl watering a bare tree from a watering can, with the hashtags #kwiatkultury and #igersbialystok
    • photography
    • community

    igersbialystok

    founded a mobile photography community; instameets such as WWIM13, over 10,000 posts under #igersbialystok

    2013–2018

2012

  1. Film still: a young man in a grey T-shirt eyes the camera suspiciously, next to a desk with a monitor and a game controller
    • film
    • game, charity

    Misja „Genetyczny Bliźniak”

    interactive YouTube film-game about bone marrow donation

2011

  1. Film still: a runner with a red backpack climbing stone steps covered in autumn leaves
    • film

    Biegowe wyzwanie

    short running film, co-made with Piotr Ejsmont

    • AR
    • sound, installation

    Galeria Bezdomna

    audio AR experiment

    • exhibition
    • photography, workshop

    Supraska Misja Specjalna

    photography workshops in Supraśl and the closing exhibition

2010

    • game
    • community, public space

    Inter-school rescue competition

    organiser and press spokesperson of the 2nd edition, a field game across the city

2009

  1. A pixelated Mario head in a red cap painted on a white wall, next to the word “1up” and a blue cloud dripping pixel raindrops
    • public space
    • collaboration

    East Side Street Art

    “It’s me, Mario.” – a pixel-art Mario on a wall, with Paweł Golonko

  2. KPKM vice-president Marcin Moskwa handing Maciej Korsan a digital camera in front of the KPKM logo
    • photography
    • award

    FotoDay 2.0

    main prize for the most interesting photo, shoot at the KPKM bus depot

    • game
    • community, public space

    Infinitio

    Białystok city game, organised with Paweł Golonko to wake the city up and show its lesser-known places

2008

  1. Kwartalnik PRONAR spread with the article “Nadal wśród najlepszych” and three photos of the AZS Białystok volleyball team
    • photography
    • publication

    Photos in Kwartalnik PRONAR

    AZS Białystok women's volleyball photos, issue 2(5)/2008

2006

  1. Basowiszcza 2007 logo proposal: a yellow triangular warning sign with a red border, a white-red-white megaphone and exclamation marks inside, the words “basovišča 2007” below
    • web

    Basowiszcza – website and logos

    the basowiszcza.org festival website, logo proposals for the 2007 edition and graphics for the Belarusian music scene, published as neochan-pl

    2006–2007