TWO DAYS WITH TONI DOVE

Toni Dove
Thursday Apr 21st 2016
Opening Reception / Demo
5:00pm-7pm
UCLA Art|Sci Gallery
5th floor CNSI

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous)
Thursday Apr 21st 2016
7-9pm
Presentation Room,
5th floor CNSI

Toni Dove will demo interactive elements from several projects using video motion sensing to control projected video. Followed by a Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous.

BIO
Considered one of the pioneers of interactive cinema, New York-based artist Toni Dove creates unique hybrids of film, installation, experimental theater and gaming. Participants interact with video, using motion sensing and other embodied interface strategies to “perform” on-screen avatars. Major projects include: Artificial Changelings, an interactive cinema installation in which viewers navigate between two centuries, debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival, 1998, Spectropia, a feature length live-mix movie performance for two players debuted 2008 Wexner Center, Lucid Possession, a live mix video performance with multiple robotic screens and musical performers, premiered Roulette, NYC, 2013. The Dress That Eats Souls, a robotic cinema installation is currently in development and will premiere at a retrospective of Dove’s interactive work at the Ringling Museum in Fla., 2018
2000/2003 – Dove served on a Government Advisory Committee on Information Technology and Creativity, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, USA.
Grants and awards: 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, and the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from M.I.T.

DEMO
Dove will demo interactive elements from several projects using video motion sensing to control projected video. Participants will move a characters body onscreen with their own movement, experience a video puppet that lip-synchs live to their voice, and explore the interactive narrative vocabulary of an installation that allows them to navigate between two characters - one in the 19th century and one in the future.

See more of Toni Dove's work at: http://www.tonidove.com