08.09 | 14:00 | IZONE first floor

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Kyiv Lights Festival is Ukraine’s largest open-air event dedicated to media art. For the third year, the festival brings together media artists from around the world, who create large-scale screenings as part of a projection mapping competition. Also, during the festival, there are contests of VJing and lighting installations, as well as an educational program. We want to talk about numerous opportunities which the festival opens for the Ukrainian artists.

Speaker:

Yuriy Kostenko is a co-founder and CEO of Ukrainian studio Front Pictures which in turn co-founded Kyiv Lights Festival. The studio creates visual solutions and technologies for large-scale shows, museums and planetariums around the world. Yuriy has over 20 years of experience in advertising, show business and the modern media technologies. Together with Front Pictures, he collaborated with such brands and organizations as Ferrari, Mercedes, LG, Coca Cola, Mastercard, Eurovision Song Contest, America’s Got Talent.

Yuriy actively participates in communities oriented to the development of modern multimedia and immersive technologies. He delivers lectures on IMERSA, International Planetarium Society, Fulldome UK, Integrated Systems Europe and other conferences. Also, he actively participates in development of Ukrainian event community. He is a jury member of Ukrainian Event Awards 2013, Brno Fulldome Festival 2018.      

Running time: 90 minutes + Q&A