# Gene Kogan

> Artist working at the intersection of AI and generative systems - building autonomous tools, agents, and long-duration artworks. Among the earliest artists to work with AI; creator of the Machine Learning for Artists (ml4a) workshop series and of Abraham, an autonomous AI artist; co-founder of Eden (eden.art).

_Last updated: 2026-06-07 | entity: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140087626_

## Key pages
- [Home / biography](https://genekogan.com/): bio, selected works, talks, installations, teaching
- [About (markdown)](https://genekogan.com/about.md): third-person biography
- [CV](https://genekogan.com/cv/) | [CV (markdown, full chronology)](https://genekogan.com/cv.md): every talk, exhibition, workshop, installation, interview (2007-2026)
- [Works (markdown portfolio)](https://genekogan.com/works.md): all projects and artworks

## Projects
- [ml4a - Machine Learning for Artists](https://ml4a.net): the workshop series, book, and lectures that helped establish AI as an artistic medium
- [Abraham](https://abraham.ai): a long-duration autonomous AI artist (one work/day, 2025-2038, under an on-chain covenant)
- [Eden](https://eden.art): a platform for autonomous generative artists (co-founder)
- [Mars College](https://mars.college): an off-grid community for AI, art, and technology

## Selected works
_Canonical links are genekogan.com/works/... pages where they exist; external links in parentheses._
- [Agentic code art - Agents coding generative art, plays, and music videos](/misc/_iconic/index.html)
- [Vibe live coding - Live-coding music and visuals real-time with an AI assistant](https://x.com/genekogan/status/2041566685468226013)
- [GPT Image feedback loop - Recursive image generation experiment](https://x.com/genekogan/status/1916167820276371666)
- [A Book from the Sky - DCGAN trained on Chinese handwriting](https://genekogan.com/works/a-book-from-the-sky/)
- [Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk - A reanimation of Alice in Wonderland with neural style transfer](https://genekogan.com/works/why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk/) ([link](https://vimeo.com/139123754))
- [Style synthesis loops - A technique for producing 3-second long infinite loops imitating a style](https://genekogan.com/works/infinite-hokusai/) ([link](https://twitter.com/genekogan/status/1008338409025409024))
- [Brain Loops - Infinitely looping text-to-image artworks, first NFT collection on Braindrops](https://braindrops.cloud/projects/1)
- [Escher loop - CLIP + VQGAN infinite loop inspired by M.C. Escher](https://x.com/genekogan/status/1393585012025425924)
- [Turntables - A generative art piece exploring radial subdivision](https://ethblock.art/create/38/8626869)
- [BigGAN imitations - Regenerating a video from PlanetEarth using BigGAN](https://genekogan.com/works/biggan-imitation/) ([link](https://x.com/genekogan/status/1075808726420881408))
- [Neural Synthesis - Video made by neural network visualization techniques](https://genekogan.com/works/neural-synth/) ([link](https://vimeo.com/246047871))
- [Deepdream Densecap - Auto-captioning Deepdream videos with densecap](https://genekogan.com/works/deepdream-densecap/) ([link](https://www.vimeo.com/173062236))
- [Invisible Cities - Generative satellite imagery and city style transfer with pix2pix](https://genekogan.com/works/invisible-cities/) ([link](https://opendot.github.io/ml4a-invisible-cities/))
- [Experiments with Style Transfer - Video made by neural network visualization techniques, piccaso, neural photobombs](https://genekogan.com/works/style-transfer/)
- [Invisible Berlin - Three interactive AI installations at Futurium Berlin](https://genekogan.com/works/futurium/) ([link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqNPl949yCM&list=PL1lO4YK4FC3hsdFqkDlUJiDbtiLw2vCpV))
- [Cubist Mirror - An early real-time style transfer mirror](https://genekogan.com/works/cubist-mirror/) ([link](https://vimeo.com/167910860))
- [Meat Puppet - An early real-time deepfake mirror](https://genekogan.com/works/meat-puppet/) ([link](https://x.com/genekogan/status/857922705412239362))
- [Doodle Tunes - Play music by drawing instruments (with Andreas Refsgaard)](https://genekogan.com/works/doodle-tunes/) ([link](https://vimeo.com/197026662))
- [Kinect Projector Toolkit - Software for aligning depth camera with a projector](https://genekogan.com/works/kinect-projector-toolkit/)
- [Machine Yearning - A music performance piece with a robotic arm (with Jeff Snyder, Ryan Johns, and Plork)](https://genekogan.com/works/machine-yearning/)
- [Invisible City - Draw a map and watch a neural network transform it into satellite imagery in the style of Seoul and Venice.](https://vimeo.com/194531286)
- [Birl - Physical modeling and training interface for electronic wind instrument (with Jeff Snyder)](https://genekogan.com/works/birl/)

## Teaching & educational projects
- [ml4a - Educational resource for creative AI](https://genekogan.com/works/ml4a/) ([link](https://ml4a.net))
- [What Neural Nets See - Educational lecture for Google](https://genekogan.com/works/what-neural-networks-see/) ([link](https://experiments.withgoogle.com/what-neural-nets-see))
- [The Neural Aesthetic - Various lectures on AI art recorded at NYU between 2016-2020](https://ml4a.github.io/classes/)
- [Workshop at Digilogue (Istanbul 2018)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhKoBpdjgxM)
- [Workshop series at ISCMA (Hong Kong 2019)](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaN6Cxwpu9UKR2mPc39bZEJoyAoCwRw_q)
- [Teaching the Machine - A collection of student projects made for ml4a workshop at ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland](https://vimeo.com/302452465)
- [ml4a projects @ CIID - Student projects for ml4a workshop at CIID, Copenhagen, co-taught with Andreas Refsgaard](https://vimeo.com/221993355)

## Selected events
- [2026 May 29-31 - Interactive installation at Machine Consciousness conference (Lighthaven , Berkeley, CA)](https://machine-consciousness.ai/experiences)
- [2026 May 20 - Installation and talk at Drawing Room (The Explorers Club , New York, NY)](https://thedrawingroom.ai/)
- [2025 Dec 4 - Little Martians: From Desert Clay to Generative Agents (with Vanessa Rosa ) (NeurIPS , San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA)](https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/129261)
- [2025 Oct 8-10 - Abraham's First Works (AUTOMATA , online)](https://www.automata.art/exhibitions/abraham/)
- [2025 Feb 20 - Augmented Intelligence (Christie's , Rockefeller Center, New York, NY)](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/augmented-intelligence/gene-kogan-b-1985-27/250109)
- [2023 Apr 17 - Collective Imagination (FITC Toronto 2023 , The Great Hall, Toronto, Canada)](https://fitc.ca/presentation/collective-imagination/)
- [2022 Jun 16 - Collective Imagination (Eyeo Festival , Walker Art Center , Minneapolis, MN)](https://eyeofestival.com/speaker/gene-kogan/)
- [2020 Oct 15 - Art and ML talk (PyData Khobar , online)](https://twitter.com/pydatakhobar/status/1316052303040872448)
- [2020 May 6 - Frontiers of neural arts (online) (Github Satellite , online-only)](https://githubsatellite.com/speakers/#gene-kogan)
- [2019 Dec 14 - Artist in the cloud: Towards an autonomous artist (NeurIPS conference , Vancouver, Canada)](https://neurips2019creativity.github.io/)
- [2019 Sep 5 - Group exhibition: Invisible Berlin, AI Transform, Cubist Mirror (Futurium , Berlin, Germany)](https://futurium.de/en/style-transfer)
- [2019 Aug 8-Sep 15 - Group exhibition: Symbiosis: Seasons of Media Art (ZKM Medienmuseum , Karlsruhe, Germany)](https://zkm.de/de/gene-kogan)
- [2019 May 10 - Making Machines Creative panel (Creative Tech Week , New York, NY)](http://web.archive.org/web/20200107012405/http://creativetechweek.nyc:80/experts/gene-kogan-artist-and-programmer/)
- [2019 Jan 4 - Talk at International Symposium on Computational Media Art (ISCMA) (ISCMA , Hong Kong)](https://www.cityu.edu.hk/iscma/keynote-speakers-and-plenary-sessions)
- [2018 Nov 22 - The Neural Aesthetic (Art & Tech Days , Košice, Slovakia)](https://2018.atdays.sk/en/speakers-and-artists/)
- [2018 Nov 20 - Keynote at PyData Warsaw (Centrum Nauki Kopernik , Warsaw, Poland)](https://pydata.org/warsaw2018/keynotes/)
- [2018 Oct 19 - Talk at FutureTellers (Summit Digilogue , Istanbul, Turkey)](https://web.archive.org/web/20191117212407/http://www.digilogue.com/gene-kogan/)
- [2018 Sep 6-8 - Neural synthesis at Seoul Mediacity Biennale (Seoul Museum of Art , Seoul, South Korea)](https://mediacityseoul.kr/en/yesterday/artworks/portraits-of-imaginary-people)
- [2018 Jun 13 - The Neural Aesthetic (Sónar+D , Barcelona, Spain)](https://web.archive.org/web/20221202033624/https://sonarplusd.com/en/programs/barcelona-2018/speakers/gene-kogan-artist-and-coder)
- [2018 May 15 - CIID Open Lecture (with Andreas Refsgaard ) (CIID , Copenhagen, Denmark)](http://web.archive.org/web/20210731224130/https://ciid.dk/open-lecture-andreas-refsgaard-gene-kogan/)
- [2018 May 2 - Machine listening: Applications of AI to Music (with Andrea Goetzke ) (re:publica , Berlin, Germany)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93rAVrzHZk)
- [2018 Jan 30 - Musicmaker's dystopia; the automation of songwriting, production, and curation (CTM Festival , Berlin, Germany)](https://archive2013-2020.ctm-festival.de/archive/all-artists/f-j/gene-kogan/?L=0)
- [2017 Sep 10 - Tutorial on machine learning for artists (Ars Electronica , Linz, Austria)](https://archive.aec.at/media/assets/00516eb69e438089a2687d583e497f9c.pdf)
- [2017 Sep 5 - Machine learning for creativity (The Conference , Malmö, Sweden)](https://videos.theconference.se/gene-kogan-machine-learning-for-creatives)
- [2017 Jun 28 - Starving computer scientist (Eyeo Festival , Minneapolis, MN)](http://eyeofestival.com/2017/speaker/gene-kogan/)
- [2017 Jun 13 - Open lecture: Learning interaction (CIID , Copenhagen, Denmark)](https://www.ciid.dk/community/gene-kogan)
- [2017 May 6 - Picasso's terminal; data science and AI in the visual arts (PyData , London, England)](https://pydata.org/london2017/schedule/presentation/67/)
- [2016 Nov 15-Jan 20 - Why the Future Still Needs Us (Art Center Nabi , Seoul, South Korea)](http://www.nabi.or.kr/archive/board_view.php?ach_idx=1017&ach_id=artwork)
- [2016 Nov 4 - Adversarial Nets (Kikk Festival , Namur, Belgium)](http://www.kikk.be/2016/en/program/conferences/gene-kogan)
- [2016 Aug 23 - Interview with Kadenze (Lacuna Lab , Berlin, Germany)](https://vimeo.com/183574755)
- [2016 Jun 9 - The Neural Aesthetic (Eyeo Festival , Minneapolis, MN)](http://eyeofestival.com/2016/speaker/gene-kogan/)

_Full chronology (350+ entries): https://genekogan.com/cv.md_

## Profiles
- [GitHub](https://github.com/genekogan) | [Instagram](https://instagram.com/genekogan) | [X / Twitter](https://twitter.com/genekogan)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140087626) | [Le Random](https://www.lerandom.art/artists/gene-kogan) | [AIArtists](https://aiartists.org/gene-kogan) | [AUTOMATA](https://www.automata.art/artists/gene-kogan)

## Optional
- [llms-full.txt](https://genekogan.com/llms-full.txt): full biography and complete CV inlined into one file