BIO
Considered a pioneer of interactive cinema, New York-based artist Toni Dove creates human operated instruments that tell stories. Using embodied interface, such as motion sensing and skeletal tracking, to manipulate media in real time, she creates genre mashing narratives that examine the impact of technological change on the world we live in as it evolves around us. She asks how these changes alter how we invent ourselves. Her disruptive practice, evolved over years, has produced machines that blur the boundaries between performance and installation and fuse film, game, experimental theater, robotics and artificial intelligence-based interaction to create immersive experience.
Dove’s current project in development Sunjammer Six: A Tale Told by a Solar Breeze is a mixed reality installation that uses proprietary AI to allow characters to interact with multiple audience members. It’s a story about Hypatia, a mathematician assassinated in 415 CE, who returns as a furious ghost and encounters a NASA engineer in the future building an off-world power station. Support for the project: Artist in Residence at: Bell Labs E.A.T. Program; Tandon School of Engineering, Integrated Digital Media, NYU; Pioneerworks Virtual Environments Lab. Grants from N.Y.S.C.A., and N.E.A. She is currently a fellow at Yale University, CCAM.
Dove’s work has been presented in the United States, Europe and Canada, in print and on radio and TV. Projects include (selected venues): Archeology of a Mother Tongue(virtual reality), Banff Centre for the Arts; Artificial Changelings (interactive installation), Rotterdam Film Festival, USA; Body Mécanique at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; Spectropia: (feature length live-mix movie performance) Lincoln Center, Scanners, the NY Video Festival 2006; Cleveland, the Ingenuity festival 2007; premiere: Wexner Center for the Arts; REDCAT, LA Nov 2007; the Zero1 Festival of Art on the Edge, San Jose, 2008, EMPAC, Troy NY, 2008, the Kitchen, NYC, 2010, Roulette, NY, 2012, Ringling Museum 2018. Lucid Possession (a live mix music cinema performance) developed with a residence at Theater Republique Copenhagen, WIP Spielart Festival Munich. a co-production with Issue Project Room, Roulette and HERE, NYC, preview: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, premiere NYC 2013, Roulette, The Ringling Museum 2018. An interactive cinema and robotics installation ‘The Dress That Eats Souls’, premiered in a retrospective of Dove’s interactive work “Embodied Machines” at The Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, 2018. Catalogue available.
Dove was Hirshon Artist/Director in residence at the New School for Social Research in Media Studies 2014/15. She has received numerous grants and awards including: the Rockefeller Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Langlois Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, The LEF Foundation, MediaThe Foundation. She received the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from M.I.T. and a lifetime achievement award from I.D.M.A.a.
Dove was appointed to the 2000/2003 Government Advisory Committee on Information Technology and Creativity, National Research Council, USA.
Toni Dove http://www.tonidove.com tonidove@gmail.com