FREE TO BROWSE is a comics journalism project in progress about coming of age online.
It delves into the stories of queer teens, including my transgender son, for whom the internet has served as a crucial lifeline.
Contrary to the widespread belief that social media, online games and extensive “screen time” are detrimental, this work presents first-person accounts about how these same platforms have been indispensable for self-discovery, self-education, forging friendship and finding comfort.
A surrealist short comic WE LIVED IN MARIUPOL, also an animated short in progress
Merry-Go-Round, looped animation, mp4, 00:00:15:00, 720 x 1280, 29,97 fps, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fresco
The playground merry-go-round stands still
You won't see the budding willows from the trolleybus
Only Russia's special envoy to the U.S. keeps moving his mouth on TV
April 2025
trailer of Animated Diaries of War: Coffee (2023)
My animated short film Animated Diaries of War: COFFEE screened at several festivals in the US, in Europe and online, including the epic ArtDocFest 2024 in Riga.
My 2023 REEL
The first pages of Code and Conscience: The AGI Chronicles, a web comic I am experimenting with to make sense of the recent happenings at OpenAI and LLMs in the wake of AGI in general.
Projecting my 2021 Children behind Glass animation on the walls of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, sound on. An artistic protest against the inhumane practices in The Netherlands where thousands of children were being separated from their parents as a result of a bureaucratic mistake.
The Secret Word, looped animation, mp4, 00:00:20:00, 2000 x 2000, 29,97 fps, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Available at: https://foundation.app/@KORNIENKO/secretword/1
This charity project is an artistic parody of the famous Wordle game where you have to guess the secret word, only in this Russian version, the opening word is always "Putin" and the secret word is always "War". See more
On February 26, 2022, I projected my then unfinished Ukraine-themed animation A Parallel World on the walls of the Hermitage in Amsterdam, the first and only foreign dependence of the famous Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg, Russia (they broke their ties with the Russian Hermitage shortly afterwards).
Children behind Glass, looped animation, mp4, 00:00:12:10, 1920 x 1080, 29,97 fps, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fresco, Adobe After Effects
Available at https://knownorigin.io/gallery/5413000-children-behind-glass
Children_behind Glass: An artistic protest against crippling government control over childhood.
The collection includes the main animation (a 12 second loop, mp4) and several still portraits (png), all based on Dutch Renaissance art. With this project, I want to express hope that the new renaissance unleashed in the digital realm today may help children regain their voices.