Kat Mustatea is an imagination engine whose tech-native storytelling stretches theater into the digital age. She has written plays in which people turn into lizards, a woman has a sexual relationship with a swan, and a one-eyed cyclops tries to fit into Manhattan society by getting a second eye surgically implanted in his head.
Her TED talk originates a thesis about the meaning of machines making art as society shifts radically toward autonomous, algorithmic systems. She is currently a member of NEW INC, the art and tech incubator at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, and a co-curator of EdgeCut, a live performance series that explores our complex relationship to the digital. She speaks frequently about the intersection of cutting edge technology and art (most recently at SXSW, The Pompidou Center in Paris, and Creative Tech Week in NYC).
Her most recent work with synthetic language and AI, including the Instagram-based performance Voidopolis, was profiled by Cueva Gallery.
