The Theatre Times: Creating art that reflects our time, Kat Mustatea is a playwright and technologist whose conceptual triumphs are rooted in narrative-led, drama. Her creative endeavors pay regard to the bearing of AI and social media on art and society. Among Mustatea’s numerous accomplishments is a STARTS Residency at The Pompidou Center in Paris.
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Using technology and blending it into art has been one of the biggest discussion going around the world in recent years. The blend between VR and innovative art that revolves theatrical art is very interesting and inspiring to young artists like me who are living in this new era of time where everything revolves around technology. This is such a great inspiration and new way in creating art. The mention of learning from art forms around the world and combining them together in her art form to achieve what she wants to create and form her own little world with technologies. In addition, this method of telling story also opens ups a new genre where games and video games could possibly include theatrical performance and shows in them. Last year, I remember that I read this article where a scene in shakespeare production was being used as a part in a video game. In the future, I truly wish and hope to see more of those.
A few things speak to me about the work of Kat Mustatea. Primarily, the descriptor of her work as "playing the piano while building it" is both a poetic and inspirational description of what anyone in a creative field should be doing if they want to press on the boundaries of what is possible. We live in a world where there is a boundless surplus of entertainment and audiences must constantly chose what deserves their attention. Putting an expiration on digital works seems like a perfectly valid way to encourage prioritization from audiences. There's nothing specific about AR that makes it the only fit, but blending the inherent finiteness of life with digital augmentation that also decays makes it a compelling fit. There's nothing wrong with staying in a comfortable lane and targeting what you know works for a medium; there's always something new to discover in the known. However, artists like Kat Mustatea are challenging what we consider valid for digital artists, and her work blurs digital and performance art in a way I anticipate will become more commonplace as the tools become more accessible. We need artists like Kat Mustatea to build the piano so we can decide if it's worth playing.
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