M Kuznetsov is a futurist, technologist, and installation artist from the Midwest who leans on their background in sociotechnical systems and biology to create placemaking, visceral work about existing in a world that is still coming to be. Often situated within nightlife or rituals, their multimedia work seeks to foster vulnerability and collective yearning.

Since co-founding the art collective Encoder Rat Decoder Rat in 2020, they have been developing their vision of the rat techno future: a subversive, radical lens for alternative pluriversal futures rooted in design justice, mutual aid, thoughtful technology, and designing for transition.

Their most recent work, a Night at the Orfelia, brought together hundreds of people to a nightclub from 2054 to envision emerging technologies that embody our values of trans joy and abundance. Previously, they’ve worked with Community Kitchen MPLS and Tech Workers Coalition Bay Area to move closer to the worlds their work imagines.