About

This page traces the history of multidisciplinary work on social dimensions of body data led by Kit Kuksenok, PhD (aka i0 xen0). Through research and teaching collaborations, my mission is to expand the collective imagination of technology's role in how we understand and imagine the human body. This project explores both critical and curious perspectives on the sociotechnical aspects of body knowledge.
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News

This page was last updated October 20, 2025. Some of the past online events have been recorded and can be viewed; as a starting point, I would recommend the 2023 NeMe talk.
Market Cafe Magazine Issue 9: The Invisible Data Issue is out! This issue is unlike the others. This issue talks about a chapter of a magazine that has always been about people, their ideas, and their care. Why? Because this issue is about data gaps, voids, and absences. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, hand-made, Singer-sewn with white thread, printed in black and magenta.
Magazine spread with interview by i0 xen0 on social body data collection Market cafe magazine issue 9 cover image

Events

2025

"Code Work" talk at NODE+CODE #21 On The Move: Movement as a circulation of bodies, code, and memory across different contexts (see also: talk transcript - press space to proceed)
Bring Your Own Biodata (BYOB): Feminist, Corporeal and Collective Approaches to Datafied Bodies. Workshop at DIS 2025 (see also: open access workshop paper).

2024

MIND Foundation INSIGHT Forum: Embodiment & Well-Being: From Altered States to Interoceptive Connection - June 26th panel with Saga Briggs, author of "How to Change Your Body"hosted by the MIND Foundation, 19:00-22:00 Berlin
Politics of the Machines conference in Aachen, Germany (April 22-26, free attendance) In this conference, I will chair the Body Imaginations track, which imagines mechanisms of care within the human body as a complex system. Read the trip report here...
Radical Imperfection in Self-Tracking (5-week online course)
@School of Machines, Making, and Make-Believe

2023

"Body Data Curriculum" presentation at Data for Care @ NeMe Arts Center.
Body Data & Complex Systems (5-week online course)
@School of Machines, Making, and Make-Believe

2022

Discussion & drawing workship at Berlin's Weizenbaum Conference: Drawing as a Facilitator for Critical Data Discourse This intervention explroed the 2022 theme of the conference, Practicing Sovereignty: Interventions for Open Digital Futures"
Conversations with Emily Fong On two occations in February 2023 and in November 2023, Kit and Emily held conversational space about understanding the body through our respective art practice. We talked and sketched, and invited all participants to talk and sketch with us.

2021

"Speculative Images" @ The Art of Engagement
The Scottish Public Engagement Network Annual Gathering
Radical Imperfection in Time-Tracking (5-week online course)
@School of Machines, Making, and Make-Believe

2020

Radical Imperfection in Self-Tracking (5-week online course)
@School of Machines, Making, and Make-Believe

Writing

What are the possibilities for sociality within body knowledge production - including not only discursive practices, but also drawing and creative exploration of body data?

Practice

How do we know what we know about hormones? (HumDrum Press 2024, Forthcoming) The culmination of my artist residency at the School of Commons (Zurich 2022), book is not a book about hormones. Rather, it is a book about how we humans think about our hormones, and how we know whatever we know about our hormones. This book is also a collection of invitations to draw, discuss, move, and imagine the internal bio-chemical dialogues that our bodies hold within themselves.
CRITICAL DATA PRACTICE AT HOME AND WITH FRIENDS (2020-2022) Expressive (and collaborative) data practices for building body knowledge and practicing data feminism.

Research

Beatrice Vincenzi, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Kim Sauvé, Laura Forlano, Derya Akbaba, Edda Forero, Samuel Thulin, Pedro Sanches, and Kit Kuksenok. 2025. Bring Your Own Biodata (BYOB): Feminist, Corporeal and Collective Approaches to Datafied Bodies. In Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 57–60.
"When is a Body?" Preface to "Where Does a Body Begin?" (becoming press 2023) Exploration of body temporalities.
Kit Kuksenok, Christel De Maeyer, Minha Lee. 2022. "Drawing as a Facilitator for Critical Data Discourse: Reflecting on Problems of Digital Health Data through Expressive Visualization of the Unseen Body Landscape". in Proceedings of Weizenbaum Conference 2022: Practicing Sovereignty: Interventions for Open Digital Futures"
Satsia, Maria, and Kit Kuksenok. "From Data to Matter: Anti-Systematic Interventions and Explorations of the (Micro) biopolitical Organism." Proceedings of Politics of the Machines-Rogue Research 2021.
Kit Kuksenok, Marisa Satsia. 2021. "Know thy Flesh: What Multi-disciplinary Contemporary Art Teaches Us about Building Body Knowledgein xCoAx2021.
Jenson, Sage, & Kuksenok, Kit (2020). How to Observe the Inner Space of a Complex Biological System through Speculative Simulation. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 12(3), 9-24. 10.34632/jsta.2020.9489.
Sage Jenson, Kit Kuksenok. 2020. "Exploratory Modelling with Speculative Complex Biological Systems" in xCoAx2020
Feminist Futures Hackathon 2021 Talk Blurb and Speaker Photo xCoAx Slide from Marisa Satsia collaborative research The question how do we know what we know about hormones and a sea cucumber to the right of it