Kat Mustatea

Kat Mustatea is a transmedia playwright whose experiments with language, live art, and the computational uncanny, articulate the absurdities of being human in an increasingly algorithmic world. Her work has been presented at Ars Electronica, New Images Festival, CPH:DOX Lab, New York Live Arts, and The Cube at Virginia Tech, among others. Her TED talk, about AI, agency, and puppetry, offers a novel take to the meaning of generative art-making. Her project BodyMouth, an instrument for embodied language, was a finalist for the 2024 Lumen Prize, as well as the 2024 Guthman Prize, widely regarded as the “Pulitzer for new musical instruments.” Her hybrid work, Voidopolis (2023) was released with the MIT Press / Penguin Random House as an augmented reality book. The project was named to the Digital Dozen Breakthroughs in Storytelling, was shortlisted for the Lumen Prize and the Ars Electronica Prize, won the Arts and Letters ‘Unclassifiable Prize’ for literature, and has been exhibited internationally in a variety of digital and physical formats.

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