Kat Mustatea
Board Member
Independent Artist
Kat Mustatea is a transmedia playwright and artist 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 speech, was a finalist for the 2024 Lumen Prize, as well as the 2024 Guthman Prize, and was featured in Harper's Magazine and on CBS Sunday Morning. Her hybrid work, Voidopolis (2023) was released with the MIT Press / Penguin Random House as an augmented reality book and named to the Digital Dozen Breakthroughs in Storytelling.