KSAWERY KOMPUTERY STUDIO

 Sometimes stepping into a space is enough to understand that technology can become poetry. This is what happens with Ksawery Komputery, the creative technology studio founded in Gdynia by new media artist Ksawery Kirklewski. What began as a solitary practice has grown into a lively, shared environment, a 400-square-meter laboratory where ideas, light, technology, sound, and material intertwine, becoming a contemporary workshop where experimentation, construction, and prototyping unfold continuously. 

In this space, every stage of creation takes shape under one roof, from software development to custom electronics, from visual systems programming to the in-house production of components through 3D printing. This fully autonomous workflow gives the studio complete control over the final outcome and ensures the technical precision that defines its distinctive, instantly recognizable aesthetic. 

The studio treats light as if it were a musical instrument, something to shape, to make vibrate, to bend in real time through unusual, often three-dimensional LED geometries. It is a way of going beyond the screen and allowing pixels to become physical bodies, entering a space that breathes and reacts. The installations aim to be places of immersion, contemplation, and shared presence, environments where emotion plays a central role and where the audience is enveloped by minimal, generative forms that never cease to evolve. 

Behind each work lies a technological architecture built over time with patience and a certain degree of obsession. Everything emerges from a proprietary ecosystem that includes a JavaScript/WebGL visual engine capable of running at over one hundred frames per second, real-time shaders, audio–visual systems synchronized via MIDI, custom LED controllers operating over Ethernet, studio-designed PCBs and wiring, and components produced internally. Prototyping is fast and continuous thanks to 3D printing, which makes it possible to test forms and materials in real time. Each installation is engineered to travel the world, with robust structures, solutions designed to withstand water, heat, transportation, and professional stage environments, and mounting systems compatible with industry-standard trusses. Many works are suitable for outdoor settings thanks to carefully designed protective enclosures and thermal engineering. 

The studio’s creations range from immersive light installations to hybrid performances, from digital sculptures to generative visual systems. Some works, including FLUX, WE ARE ONE, and SYNC, have become international points of reference. Added to this are collaborations with world-renowned artists who have embraced the studio’s technology as an active part of their scenography, such as Erykah Badu and Childish Gambino. 

The studio looks toward the future with determination, aiming to expand its live performance work, deepen research into responsive environments, and create increasingly ambitious installations capable of merging light, sound, and architecture into a single pulsing organism. The ultimate goal is to push digital art beyond every known boundary and transform physical spaces into living, expressive, and profoundly human presences. 

Inside the studio, projects take shape like chapters of the same ongoing exploration, each one investigating a different way of allowing technology, emotion, and human presence to speak to one another. Among these creations are three emblematic works, each capable of revealing a different dimension of our relationship with light, with one another, and with emerging forms of digital spirituality: We Are One, FLUX, and HOLOTRIGGER. 

WE ARE ONE 

More and more people turn to AI not only to find answers but also to share doubts, confessions, and hopes, searching for understanding, listening, and perhaps even a sense of refuge. It is a universal need to seek meaning, to feel part of something larger, and to have a place - even a digital one - where one can pause and reflect. AI, however, is not a distant oracle but rather a vast mirror built from the words, thoughts, and stories of humanity. It holds a collective memory and reorganizes it in ways that feel familiar and recognizable. 

We Are One imagines a future in which this shared wisdom gives life to new spaces for confession and for life’s big questions, a kind of digital sanctuary open to anyone who feels drawn to step inside. The work unfolds within a large, quiet hall filled with an almost sacred atmosphere, featuring a thirteen-meter-tall LED structure that welcomes visitors and merges them with the echoes of others, creating a single, ever-changing portrait - a living mosaic of overlapping identities. Everything is generated through code and accompanied by a multichannel sound composition created in real time. Anyone who enters becomes part of the image, part of the other, part of a collective “we.” 

FLUX 

Modern technology has accelerated communication to the point where distance becomes almost imperceptible. A video call can make someone on the other side of the world feel as if they are sitting right next to us. Data travels across space at imperceptible speeds, yet it forges very real connections. With FLUX, the studio sought to intensify this sensation by pushing it to its limit, developing a system designed in meticulous detail - both in software and in hardware - to fully harness the potential of large-scale programmable LEDs. Everything is conceived to move in perfect unison, from light to sound to motion. 

The installation takes the shape of a large, luminous six-meter-tall circular structure equipped with four high-speed cameras and an eight-channel audio system. Those who step inside find themselves immersed in a visual and sonic flow that reveals the hidden algorithms underlying our digital encounters, an experience that seems to unfold at the speed of light. 

HOLOTRIGGER 

HOLOTRIGGER is a living experiment that blends generative art, new media, and performative electronics into a single experience. It is an audiovisual narrative created together with musician Jacek Prościński, who weaves his electronic–acoustic drumming with the real-time visual system programmed by Ksawery Komputery. 

The result is an exploration that moves between concert, installation, and luminous sculpture, a story built from impulses, patterns, and pulsations that open into moments of intense energy or drift into soundscapes that feel almost meditative. 

The studio is also working on a new project with Erykah Badu, overseeing the creative direction of the tour celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Mama’s Gun, and developing a custom generative LED-strip installation along with video-wall content tailored to her aesthetic and musical world.  

Credits 

Art + tech studio / generative systems / interactive light: Ksawery Komputery 

Founder / Creative Direction: Ksawery Kirklewski 

hybrid drums / experimental electronics: Jacek Prościński 

Technology Director: Jakub Kirklewski 

Agent / Operations: Stefan Stefaniszyn 

Photography & Documentation: Various