Maciej Korsan

I build digital platforms for a living. After hours: odd machines and art.I live and make things in Białystok, Poland.

Projects

  1. 2026

    1. Programistok 2026 – promo film

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

      • film,
      • 3D

    2. “Kiś ogórki, nie emocje” mural

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

      • photography,
      • public space

    3. Game Boy Camera photo booth

      Game Boy Camera + Super Nintendo

      • hardware,
      • photography

    4. Programistok Game Boy game

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

      • game

    5. Ambient Totems

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

      • installation,
      • sound,
      • hardware,
      • public space

    6. teraz.live

      Collective Live Ambient Experience

      • live,
      • sound,
      • web

    7. Up To Date Show

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

      • radio,
      • DJ

    8. Clock

      clock mechanism and programming, with Alicja Wysocka

      • craft,
      • collaboration

    9. Disco Ogór

      handmade object, 3D scanning and manual work

      • object,
      • 3D

    10. Tech support for Rafał Zajko

      installation at Galeria Arsenał

      • installation,
      • collaboration

    11. Dziwnostki

      AR piece at the exhibition “To nie jest karnawał”

      • AR,
      • exhibition

    12. korsi.space live

      music stage of the “To nie jest karnawał” exhibition

      • live,
      • sound

  2. 2025

    1. Sw@da x Niczos – drone footage

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

      • video,
      • collaboration

    2. Grasses

      for the play “Forest Road 8995”

      • installation,
      • theatre,
      • collaboration

    3. Game Boy with e-paper

      IoT picture frame inside a Game Boy

      • hardware,
      • IoT

    4. Beyond Code live act

      premiere of my ambient material written for yoga

      • live,
      • sound

    5. Game Boy Camera charity session

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

      • photography,
      • charity

    6. Yoga on holiday

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

      • photography,
      • publication

  3. 2024

    1. From code editor to art gallery

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

      • talk,
      • sound,
      • web

    2. Game Boy Camera photography

      2024–2025, bitless.photo: shooting with the original 1998 camera and printing on the Game Boy Printer

      • photography,
      • media

    3. Dalekie Horyzonty workshop

      “Creative visuals in practice”, as a participant

      • workshop

  4. 2023

    1. Up To Date Festival photography

      2023–2026, festival photos published by the organisers, including drone shots

      • photography,
      • collaboration

    2. Ambient w elektrowni

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

      • DJ,
      • sound

    3. Photo booth kiosk for devstyle

      I Love Dev conference

      • hardware,
      • photography

    4. POGWAR

      generative ambient in the browser; live act at Galeria Arsenał

      • live,
      • sound,
      • web

    5. Dancing Voxels

      Kinect scans dancers at techno nights and turns them into voxels

      • visuals,
      • live

  5. 2022

    1. Latający Salon Ambientu

      2022–2024, photo documentation of Up To Date Festival's charity balloon flights with live ambient sets

      • photography

    2. Projekt New Hope

      2022–2023, co-founded a Białystok DJ collective: a manifesto, showcases in Białystok and Gdynia, ambient afternoons at Galeria Arsenał

      • DJ,
      • collective

    3. UDSK mural

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

      • photography,
      • public space

    4. Digital stereoscopic photography

      • photography

    5. FOMO

      mixed arts for the club, photography and 3D prints

      • photography,
      • 3D

    6. LEGO Macintosh 128K

      with a working screen; first version in 2017

      • hardware

  6. 2021

    1. korsi.space

      2021–2026, my DJ alias: from club FOMO to ambient sets and radio

      • DJ,
      • sound

    2. KORSAN:2000

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

      • exhibition,
      • photography,
      • sound,
      • web

  7. 2019

    1. Send a postcard to Grandma

      2019–2023, photo documentation of the mural and drone footage for the film “Niespodzianka”; KTR Bronze and nomination

      • photography,
      • video,
      • public space,
      • award

    2. DevTalk #96

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

      • talk,
      • media

  8. 2018

    1. Photos in tourism publications

      2018–2026, my photos of Podlasie used by podlaskie.travel and the regional “Turystyczna Ósemka” bus line, including Tykocin Castle

      • photography,
      • publication

    2. KORSAN:1000

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

      • exhibition,
      • photography

    3. Programistok 2018

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

      • art direction,
      • sound

    4. meet.js Special

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

      • talk,
      • web,
      • photography

  9. 2017

    1. 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

      • media,
      • publication

    2. 8 years of Up To Date Festival

      my photo in the open-air exhibition on Rynek Kościuszki

      • exhibition,
      • photography

    3. IoT LEGO Millennium Falcon

      2017–2019, a Raspberry Pi and JavaScript inside a LEGO Falcon, controlled from a phone

      • hardware,
      • IoT

    4. DiscoJS

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

      • web,
      • visuals,
      • sound,
      • talk

    5. Programistok 2017

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

      • art direction,
      • video,
      • live,
      • photography

    6. Brickstock

      photo series of LEGO and Białystok buildings

      • photography

    7. Smiling town hall

      chosen as Photo of the Day by ESKA INFO

      • photography,
      • publication

  10. 2016

    1. One Photo a Day / 365

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

      • exhibition,
      • photography

    2. 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

      • video

    3. Lekcja muzyki

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

      • film

    4. Frontend is an art

      2016–2018, a Front-Trends 2016 lightning talk sung on ukulele instead of slides; later a full talk built on demos

      • live,
      • sound,
      • web,
      • talk

    5. Programistok 2016

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

      • art direction,
      • video,
      • award

    6. Białystok city calendar

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

      • photography,
      • award

  11. 2015

    1. One Photo a Day

      2015–2025, 3650 daily photographs, one every day for ten years

      • photography

  12. 2014

    1. Ambient live act in the Borki forest

      bass and visuals projected onto tree leaves

      • live,
      • sound,
      • visuals

  13. 2013

    1. Dziemian – Seems Like the Love (part I)

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

      • video,
      • charity

    2. Dla Ciebie to 5 minut, dla Kogoś to całe życie

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

      • film,
      • charity,
      • collaboration

    3. igersbialystok

      2013–2018, founded a mobile photography community; instameets such as WWIM13, over 10,000 posts under #igersbialystok

      • photography,
      • community

  14. 2012

    1. Misja „Genetyczny Bliźniak”

      interactive YouTube film-game about bone marrow donation

      • film,
      • game,
      • charity

  15. 2011

    1. Biegowe wyzwanie

      short running film, co-made with Piotr Ejsmont

      • film

    2. Galeria Bezdomna

      audio AR experiment

      • AR,
      • sound,
      • installation

    3. Supraska Misja Specjalna

      photography workshops in Supraśl and the closing exhibition

      • exhibition,
      • photography,
      • workshop

  16. 2010

    1. Inter-school rescue competition

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

      • game,
      • community,
      • public space

  17. 2009

    1. East Side Street Art

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

      • public space,
      • collaboration

    2. FotoDay 2.0

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

      • photography,
      • award

    3. Infinitio

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

      • game,
      • community,
      • public space

  18. 2008

    1. Photos in Kwartalnik PRONAR

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

      • photography,
      • publication

  19. 2006

    1. Basowiszcza – website and logos

      2006–2007, the basowiszcza.org festival website, logo proposals for the 2007 edition and graphics for the Belarusian music scene, published as neochan-pl

      • web