Milan Kohout is originally from The Czech Republic. Since his emigration to the U.S. in the late 1980s, he has been striving to combine both scientific and artistic professionalism in his daily life. He continued to work as an independent artist and later became a signatory member and activist of the dissident human rights organization CHARTER 77 (nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1985). Since 1994, he has been a member of the Mobius Artists Group and has created many full-scale performances (both collaborative and solo) and video pieces. Currently, his work is mostly focused on the subject of human rights and the politics of exclusion. As a Mobius Artists Group member, Milan has participated in many international art exchange programs, which have allowed him to address these human rights concerns in performances throughout Europe and Asia. This body of work has been supported through of number of awards and grants.

Since the early 1990s, Milan has been working on all aspects of professional TV productions with particular focus on video engineering and producing. He engineered many multi-camera productions with live- or world-pool feeds including Harvard University Commencements. Since 1998, Milan has engineered and produced more than two hundred live events for the C-SPAN national TV network.