Kat Mustatea
Department
Movement Lab
Kat Mustatea is a transmedia playwright and artist who experiments with language, live performance, the computational uncanny, and a Balkan sensibility for hybridity and absurdity to unsettle and reconfigure what it means to be human in the digital age.
Her work has been presented in a variety of formats and venues including Ars Electronica Linz, New Images Festival Paris, Stanley Picker Gallery London, Fabrica Treviso, and The Cube at Virginia Tech, among others. She has held residencies and fellowships at TED, CPH:DOX, New Museum’s NEW INC incubator, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, the Orchard Project, and New York University’s ITP/IMA Program.
Her mixed reality play, Lizardly, premiered at MAXLive 2021: The Neuroverse, co-produced by New York Live Arts, and was named among the Digital Dozen Breakthrough In Storytelling Awards from Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab. Voidopolis (2023, The MIT Press / Leonardo), a first-of-its kind augmented reality book made to disappear, was shortlisted for the Lumen Prize and won the Arts and Letters ‘Unclassifiable’ Prize for Literature. Her newest project, BodyMouth, a sound-movement instrument that turns the body into an organ for speech, was a finalist for the 2024 Guthman Prize for New Musical Instruments presented by Georgia Tech.