Mike Tyka

Since 2015, Mike Tyka has worked with artificial neural networks as an artistic medium and tool.He created some of the first large-scale artworks using Iterative DeepDream and collaborated with Refik Anadol to create a pioneering immersive projection installation called Archive Dreaming. His latest generative portraits series "Portraits of Imaginary People" has been shown at ARS Electronica in Linz, at the New Museum in Karuizawa (Japan) and at the Seoul Museum of Art.

Tyka co-founded the Artists and Machine Intelligence (AMI) program at Google. which supports artists in the field of machine learning and spurs activity in creative AI. The program that brings artists and engineers together to realize projects using machine intelligence. By supporting this emerging form of artistic collaboration, AMI opens research to new ways of thinking about and working with intelligent systems.

Tyka is a science sculpture artist, biochemist, Googler, glassblower, and creator of Grooviks Cube.