Kit Kuksenok
Visual Artist & Researcher
Kit Kuksenok is a visual artist with a research background in Human Computer Interaction, and experience as a code/data worker in both academia and industry. Their interest in self-tracking, both in analog and digital media, has only grown since first trying out tracking work time in a spreadsheet in 2008, as a result of watching Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture. They have used many software and hardware tools for tracking, including using their own analysis scripts; since 2019, a large portion of their self-tracking activities has been pen-and-paper, and all strongly influenced by yoga philosophy.
This course draws on a long-term personal practice of self-tracking, not only technical knowledge and experience. While working on their PhD at the University of Washington in Seattle, they co-taught a graduate course on information visualization, and another course on data analysis using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods. Through working with natural-language applications in the tech industry after finishing graduate school in 2016, they have a wide range of experience analysing complex structured and text data.
