Cat Mazza is an artist whose work combines craft with digital media to explore the overlaps between textiles, technology and labor. Her new artwork Knit for Defense has been acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She is the founder of microRevolt, a web-based project that hosts the freeware knitPro. Mazza has received fellowships from Creative Capital, the Rockefeller Foundation in media arts, MacDowell Colony and the Craft Research Fund..

Past work has shown at the Triennale di Milano (Milan, Italy), the Museum of Arts and Design (New York City), Garanti Gallery (Istanbul, Turkey), the Institute for Contemporary Art (San Jose, CA), the Jönköpings läns Museum (Jönköpings, Sweden), the Sheldon Art Museum (Lincoln, NE) and the Milwaukee Art Museum. She has also exhibited at new media festivals The Influencers (Barcelona, Spain); Futuresonic (Manchester, England), FILE (São Paulo, Brazil) and Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) where her work received a 2005 "Digital Communities" honorary mention. She has presented her work in artist lectures at multiple venues including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University, Oberlin College and the California College of the Arts. Mazza’s work has been written about in the New York Times, Artforum, and several books including KnitKnit: Profiles and Projects of Knittings New Wav and Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture.

Mazza was a founding staff member of the New York City art and technology center Eyebeam from 1999-2002. She received her MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2005), a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (1999) and is currently Assistant Professor of Art at UMass, Boston.