Toni Dove
Considered a pioneer of interactive cinema, Toni Dove creates hybrid performance and installation art fusing film, game and performance. Performers or viewers activate unfolding narratives using proprietary embodied interface instruments that incorporate technologies such as motion sensing or machine learning to connect with on-screen characters.
Dove was the 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 support from the Rockefeller Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts. 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. Dove was Artist in Residence at Bell Labs E.A.T. Program, and at Pioneerworks Immersive Lab; currently in residence Integrated Digital Media, Tandon, NYU.