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Piotr Czerski (b. 1981) is a Polish writer, musician, and visual artist working across literature, improvised noise rock, photography, video, and computational media. His practice connects language with technology and lived experience, often tracing how private time collides with social structures—and how large, slow processes can remain difficult to notice even when they shape everyday life.
Since his debut in 1999, he has published poetry, prose, reportage, and essays in Polish and international magazines and anthologies. He is the author of two books: pospieszne, osobowe (2002) and Ojciec odchodzi (2006). International attention came with We, the Web Kids (2012), recognized by many as a manifesto of a generation and circulated in multiple languages. Across his writing, two concerns recur: the individual confronted with time, social pressure, and technological mediation; and the reality of anthropogenic climate change—especially the ways it slips past perception, routines, and language, even as it reshapes the world.
Rooted early in the demoscene and hands-on computing (a fascination developed in his teens), Czerski studied Computer Science and later gravitated toward the humanistic edge of technology. He became part of the first wave of UX practitioners in Poland, working at a scale that reached millions of users, and for years led postgraduate studies in UX design.
In parallel, he co-founded the band Towary Zastępcze and has remained active within the Nasiono Records milieu, including projects such as morze, and Automaty and 7faz. His work in sound is built around improvisation and performance—treated not as an add-on, but as a core method of composing in real time, through attention, friction, and emergence.
contact [at] piotrczerski | instagram.com/piotrczerski