In 2008, Kaganskiy started the New York-based arts, culture, and technology meetup group ArtsTech shortly after graduating.[3] She subsequently interned at the Museum of Modern Art's digital learning department in 2009,[7] and started to curate pop-up shows for new media art.[5]
In 2010, VICE Media invited Kaganskiy to join the Creators Project, an arts/technology publication founded in partnership with Intel,[8] where she served as Global Editor until 2014.[9]
In 2014, the New Museum appointed Kaganskiy director of NEW INC,[9] a cultural incubator launched to support artists, innovators, and entrepreneurs working in art, design, and technology.[2] After launching, running and growing NEW INC for five years, she became a freelance curator and cultural strategist and continued to work with the New Museum as Curatorial Advisor for NEW INC's artist residency program in collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs and their Experiments in Art and Technology Lab. She co-curated the Tentacular festival at the Matadero in Madrid in 2019.[10]
She has been profiled as an influential woman in technology by Fast Company (2011),[11] the AOL/PBS series "MAKERS" (2012), and Business Insider (2013) and named to Crain’s New York Business 40 Under 40 list (2015).[12]