Today in the ArtZany Radio studio Paula Granquist welcomes playwright, author and award-winning multimedia artist Kat Mustatea. Her new book Voidopolis is an augmented reality artwork from MIT Press. https://www.mustatea.com
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, 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 2024, 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.
Voidopolis is a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an augmented reality book, which retells Dante’s Inferno as if it were set in pandemic-ravaged New York City. Voidopolis is a digital performance about loss and memory presented as an augmented reality (AR) book with a limited lifespan. https://www.voidopolisbook.com
