Muindi Fanuel Muindi is a social practice artist, philosopher, and poet. He is the founder and director of BADS_lab, the Black Arts and Decolonial Sciences laboratory: a curatorial project, residency program, and cultural hub that redistributes creative energies and challenges colonial systems of knowledge and representation. He is an organizer at the Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines, an affiliate of the Synthesis Center at Arizona State University, and an associate editor of AI & Society. Recent publications include a trilogy: The Sister, the Child, the Ghost (2026); The Null Hypothesis (2026); and Fugitive Erotics (2025). Muindi lives and works in Chicago.

As of September 2026