Toni Dove lives and works in NYC. She writes, directs and performs live
mix cinema events, installations and hybrid film projects that utilize embodied
interface, interactive technologies and robotics. Presented in the United States,
Europe and Canada as well as in print and on radio and television, her projects
include: Archeology of a Mother Tongue, a virtual reality installation with Michael
Mackenzie, Banff Centre for the Arts. Artificial Changelings, an interactive
installation, premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival, part of the exhibitions:
“Body Mecanique” at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; at the Institute for
Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University, International Performance Studies
Conference, other venues. Spectropia, her current touring project, is a feature
length live-mix movie performance for two players. Previewed 2006: work in progress
at Lincoln Center in Scanners, the New York Video Festival, Univ of West Va. BIOS
Conf.; Cleveland at the Ingenuity festival 2007; premiere: the Wexner Center for the
Arts Nov 1-3, 2007; presented: REDCAT, LA Nov 2007; Zero1 Festival of Art on the
Edge, San Jose, 2008; EMPAC, Troy, N.Y., 2008; Miami Sleepless Night Festival, 2009.
The Kitchen, NYC, Dec. 9,10,11, 2010. Lucid Possession, the work in progress has
been presented at: HERE Culturemart, 2009, 2010; Spielart Festival, Munich, 2009;
Republique Theater, Copenhagen, 2009, 2011. Dove served by appointment on the
2000/2003 Government Advisory Committee on Information Technology and Creativity,
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, USA. Dove
has received numerous grants and awards including support from 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, Experimental TV Center, and the
Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from M.I.T. Web site: http://www.tonidove.com.
See also www.lucidpossession.com.
