Hello! I'm a Berlin-based artist, writer, and coder.
You can connect with me via linkedin.com/in/kuksenok; or xnzero.substack.com;
or using the contact form below.
Kit Ksen* is a Berlin-based artist, writer, and coder. Since November 2024, they have worked at the Processing Foundation. They are currently engineering manager for Open Source Software (OSS) projects, and lead for the p5.js project. Over the past two decades, Kit has done code work: as a systems integrator, web developer, software engineer, data analyst, or university lecturer in computer science. Alongside technical work, they have maintained a research practice combining image making, lecture-performance, and experimental pedagogy.
Kit’s image-making and expressive data visualization practice has explored how body data collection (voluntary and otherwise) influences the collective understanding and imagination of unseen body structures and processes. Their art/writing is informed by experiences of technological/medical mediation of transsexuality as well as chronic illness, and 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 other Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) venues. Their research has been developed through both academic collaborations, and community teaching/learning practices at the School of Commons (ZHdK) and the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe (Berlin). Kit’s writing is informed by ongoing interests in software, as well as critical adoption, adaptation, or refusal of technology.
Born in Ukraine, and having lived both in the US and in Germany, Kit speaks three languages fluently, and two more as a learner. They hold a MSci (2014) and PhD (2016) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington (Seattle), and they are working on a second Masters at the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin).
*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: Feb 2026