Yuri Kostenko

Yuri Kostenko is co-founder and CEO of Front Pictures, a Kyiv-based creative studio focused on delivering immersive multimedia solutions for marketing and show business around the world. Yuri has a Master’s degree in Marketing from Kyiv National Economic University. He acquired considerable expertise in digital media from his seven-year career as a production director and, later, as a studio director at global communications agency Leo Burnett. Yuri and his team at Front Pictures pioneered and continue to experiment with emerging immersive formats ranging from media galleries, architectural mapping, and multimedia water shows to interactive holographic dance performances. The company also actively works with Fulldome format. Front Pictures’s fulldome technology features cutting-edge single server systems for permanent and portable planetariums. A range of the company’s innovative apps deliver astronomy, sonic visualization, presentation, and gaming options under the dome.