Alex Cohen is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, instrument designer, performance artist, and researcher. His current work explores raising public awareness of issues around data collection for large scale Artificial Intelligence models in public and virtual spaces through performance art, installation art, and participatory design workshops. He designs wearable instruments, composes music, and dances as a member of Driven Arts Collective, with whom he won the Center for Long Term Cybersecurity 2021 Arts Contest and participated in the 2021 SloMoCo Summer Micro-Residency. Alex Cohen is currently a PhD student in Electronic Arts at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. He has previously worked as the Technical Director for the Music Technology at Georgia Tech and as a Lecturer in Digital Audio Production at NCSU.

As an improvising musician, Alex has performed with William Winant, Rent Romus, Joshua Allen, gabby fluke-mogul, Camille Emaille, Tom Weeks, Seiyoung Jang, Majid Araim, and the Atlanta Improvisor’s Orchestra. He holds a BM in Jazz Guitar from Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied with Wendell Logan, Bobby Ferrazza, and Marcus Belgrave. He completed an M.A. in Music Composition and his M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College, where he studied under Roscoe Mitchell, Maggi Payne, Zeena Parkins, Pauline Oliveros, Chris Brown, Fred Frith, and Les Stuck.