Hello!

I'm Kit Kuksenok
(also: ksen zero / k0)

I am an artist and researcher based in Berlin. I keep this page updated with major current work. You can reach me on LI or IG. You can also check out a more detailed list of research projects.




Last Updated: August, 2023.

2023

Starting this fall, I will study in the Executive Master of Public Administration program at the Hertie School. I am the Data & AI Strategist at Phiture GmbH, the leading mobile growth consultancy and agency. I serve as the Alumn* Coordinator for the School of Commons, an initiative at the Zurich University of the Arts dedicated to the study and development of self-organized knowledge.

I continue to teach workshops and courses related to learning and embodiment; you can get in touch / stay tuned via LI or IG for upcoming event announcements.

Since July 2021, I have been teaching yoga asana at KALAA Yoga Berlin.

2022

For the past several years, I conducted research on building body knowledge through artistic interventions including participatory performance, drawing exercises, movement practice, embodied sonic exploration, and discussion. In 2022, this work was supported by the School of Commons; I also taught related courses in 2020-2021 at the School of Machines in Berlin.

Here is a flip-through of my art/research journal accumulated during this artist residency, including some readings on the subject of understanding unseen body processes and internal communications (specifically, hormones).

CRITICAL DATA PRACTICE AT HOME AND WITH FRIENDS was published in Critical Coding Cookbook. This methodology also informed a workshop at the Weizenbaum Conference in Alte Münze, Berlin, June 9-10, 2022; facilitated with with Minha Lee and Christel de Maeyer.

Created #Sergina's Choice-Free Survey Instrument v1.0 as part of an ongoing performance/art collaboration with artist Elly Clarke related to the collection and cleaning of personal data.

2018

Between 03.2018 and 02.2020, I ran Lost Mail, a monthly visual art and narrative puzzle, crowdfunded through Patreon. In collaboration with Cora Lee, and others.

For 3.5 years, starting in 2018, I was a coder working on B2B ("business-to-business") chatbots. As an R&D Engineer at jobpal, Ltd I mostly worked with natural-language short-form text, mostly in English and German. I have led and contributed substantially to various technical aspects of GDPR compliance in this product, and am delighted to talk about it!

2016

Finished my PhD in Seattle and moved to Berlin, and during a number of major life transitions, started one of my favorite personal art projects, "Should I Do the Thing?".

2013

Published a couple of early research projects at major human-computer interaction (HCI) conferences: a qualitative study of technology for foreign language-learning, and automatically detection emotion in chat messages.

2011

Published and presented my first research project, completed mostly during undergraduate study with a lot of wonderful mentorship, on online information seeking for chronic illness management. The mixed qualitative/quantitative methods I learned during this project, as well as different approaches people have to tracking and understanding their chronic health conditions, continue influence my artistic and research practice, especially in self-tracking.

Flowchart about making decisions.

Should I Do The Thing? (2016-2021) expresses as a diagram major life turning points; not really to make a decision, but to reveal the decision one already recognizes to be the right one.



Photo of me and Elisa Lemma in the ZHdK Orgelsaal.

Body Songs (2022) was a participatory performance, co-presented with as part of of the echoing hills with Lili Huston-Herterich and Elisa Lemma at the School of Commons end of year show at the ZHdK Orgelsaal. A participatory performance using drawing, sound, and memory as vehicles for reflecting on bodily experience, specifically cyclic experiences. The audience was invited to participate in a co-constructed rhythmic vocal composition exploring the physical, mental, or energetic shifts that occur within their/our bodies during a day, a month, or a year. Pictured: k0, cueing audience body songs (left) and Elisa Lemma on pipe-organ (right)