Hello! I'm a Berlin-based artist, writer, and coder.
You can connect with me via mastodon.social/@ksen0; /in/kuksenok; xnzero.substack.com;
or using the contact form below.
Kit Ksen* holds an MSci (2014) and PhD (2016) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington (Seattle), and they are working on a second Master's at the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin). Over the past two decades, they have done code work: as a systems integrator, web developer, software engineer, data analyst, or university lecturer in computer science. Since 2024, they work part-time as a maintainer of the p5.js library and Engineering Manager / p5.js Project Lead at Processing Foundation. Alongside technical work, they have maintained a research practice combining image making, lecture-performance, and experimental pedagogy.
For over a decade, Kit’s expressive journaling and data visualization artistic practice has explored how body data collection (voluntary and otherwise) influences the collective understanding and imagination of unseen body structures and processes. Their research has been developed through both academic collaborations, and community teaching/learning practices at the school of commons and the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe, as well as drawing from experiences of technological/medical mediation of transsexuality and chronic illness. Kit's writing has appeared in Market Cafe Magazine (excerpt here), Posthumanist Magazine, becoming.press, SAND Journal, in HumDrum Press publications, and in various conferences including Politics of the Machines, European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and additional academic Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) venues. Kit’s current work explores data by/about publics, as well as glitch, degradation, deformation, and memory in digital archiving. Across all projects, their interests lie primarily in critical adoption, adaptation, or refusal of software mediated by consumer hardware.
Born in Ukraine, and having lived both in the USA and in Germany, Kit speaks three languages well, and two more as a learner.
*child of O.Ksenchenko and O.Kuksenok
Adoption, adaptation, and refusal of software at work has been an interest since my PhD research at the University of Washington (Seattle). Over the past decade, I have expanded my knowledge of organizational change and software adaptation through experience as a software engineer and data analyst; and through further study at the Hertie School (Berlin) as part of my in-progress MPA. Some of my work contributed to publications (Google Scholar, ORCiD).
Last updated: June 2026