Voidopolis by Kat Mustatea The MIT Press Leonardo Series

KUCI: Get the Funk Out

Combining digital art, literature, and interpretation, VOIDOPOLIS is a time-sensitive, augmented reality book that quite literally degrades as you read it, so apropos for our time span, and tentative connection with each other. Shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize. Winner of the Arts And Letters ‘Unclassifiable’ Prize For Literature Winner of the Dante Prize, Dante Society London /Ars Electronica Prize Shortlist Chautauqua Janus Prize For Literature Finalist 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. A first-of-its-kind augmented reality book from MIT Press, Voidopolis is a unique and deeply affecting artwork that speaks as much to our existential moment as it does to the fragility of experience, reality, and our connection to one another. Kat Mustatea is a transmedia playwright and artist known for language and performance works that enlist absurdity, hybridity, and the computational uncanny to dig deeply into what it means to be human. Her TED Talk, about puppets and AI, takes a novel approach to the meaning of machines making art. 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. more: getthefunkoutshow.kuci.org