CURRENT MISSION

build an elevator to the moon

ABOUT ME

i am a russian-born, american-raised artist and programmer. i am interested in experimental technology and art, and spend most of my time working on various free software, freelancing, and researching. my work is quite mobile, so i've had the chance to travel a bit, especially in the last year. in a past life, i worked in machine learning and computer science, and gradually shifted to more creative work.

besides that, i am known to enjoy field recording, riding bikes, ice hockey and tennis, long walks, yoga. in general i dislike writing about myself but i have a lot of stuff online which may give you a better sense of my personality/what i do.

my website: www.genekogan.com
photo/artworks: flickr.com/genekogan
video: vimeo.com/genekogan
sounds: soundcloud.com/genekogan
code: github.com/genekogan
blog: electricdosa.tumblr.com
twitter: @genekogan
facebook: @genekogan1

PHILOSOPHY

pack light. bring duct tape. never litter.

Interests

geography, making music, installation and interactive art, evolution, speculating about the distant future, maps, riding riding riding bikes

• arts
• writing
• yoga
• technology
• traveling
• blogging
• coding
• music
• hockey
• tennis
• cartography
• computer science
• freelancing
• geography
• languages
• mathematics
• science
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

read: gulliver's travels, flatland, hesse, vonnegut, musil, calvino, borges, dawkins, kurzweil, machine learning/robotics/AI, math in general, redwall.
music: really really too much to put here! but for now: cul de sac, robbie basho, john fahey, marc ribot, aloha, dylan group, five style, beirut, the incredible string band, flying lotus, mos def, steve reich, caetano veloso, joao gilberto, weather report, mr. bungle, amon tobin, kelpe, free the robots, tame impala, prefuse 73, lusine, dodos, mount kimbie, the observatory, jaga jazzist, takemura nobukazu, plaid... i like to try to listen to at least 1 or 2 new music each week.
film: memento, brazil, pi, district 9, tokyo!, into eternity

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

hunza valley, lake indawgyi, manipur, nagaland, batad, are some of my favorite places seen so far.

i've been traveling for a year now and on rare occasions, you feel like you are at home somewhere that you've only been to a for a few weeks, and i find this is more impressive than the sights the guidebook says to see (although those are quite impressive sometimes too.)

Teach, Learn, Share

i know some things about computers and maths. i like learning languages (but am generally not so good with them)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, Russian Federation, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Ukraine, United States

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