Friday, May 18, 2-4 PM
Engineering Visual Arts Building, ground floor auditorium EV1-605
Concordia University 1515 St Catherine West

"Dove aims to intensify the cinematographic experience and to link together observer and character in a radically new way." Sabine Himmelsbach, The Cinematic Imaginary after Film, ZKM/ Center for Art and Media, Germany

Toni Dove is an artist/independent producer who works primarily with electronic media, including  virtual reality , interactive video installations, performance and DVD ROMs that engage viewers in responsive and immersive narrative environments. Her work has been presented in the United States, Europe and Canada as well as in print and on radio and television. Projects include Arxheology of a Mother Tongue, a virtual reality installation with Michael Mackenzie, Banff Centre for the Arts (see the book "Immersed in Technology" from M.I.T. Press) and an interactive cinema installation, Artificial Changelings, which debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival, and was part of the exhibition: Body Mécanique, at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, at the Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University International Performance Studies Conference, in "Wired" at the Arts Center for the Capital Region in Troy, N.Y., Book-Ends Conference. Her current project under development is Spectropia, a feature length interactive movie performance for two players also to be released as a linear feature film. It previewed as a work in progress at Lincoln Center in Scanners, the New York Video Festival 2006. A DVD ROM, Sally or the Bubble Burst, an interactive scene from the Spectropia project is distributed on the Cycling '74 label.
http://www.tonidove.com

Co-sponsored by the Topological Media Lab (Concordia) The Sense Lab (Concordia), Joint PhD in Communication (Université de Montréal/ UQAM/ Concordia) and the Workshop in Radical Empiricism (Université de Montréal), Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (Concordia), Design Computation Arts Department (Concordia)

SPECTROPIA: Sneak Preview!

Spectropia, by writer/ director and responsive media artist Toni Dove, is both a feature film and an interactive performance. Dove will be present to discuss the project and perform  excepts from her "scratchable" movie. This sci-fi hybrid, in development for the last six years, features time travel, telepathy, elements of film noir and the supernatural. Utilizing gaming technology and experimental theater strategies, performers can interact with the narrative, using motion sensors to control the performance oftheir on-screen avatars. The audience will be able to see through the character's eyes, hear their interi or thoughts, navigate their way through space, and even talk with the characters. Anything can happen.

SYNOPSIS:
Spectropia, a young woman, lives in the salvage district of an urban center of the future, a black market hub of retro object barter. Using a machine of her own invention to search the past for her father (lost in time looking for a vanished family inheritance), Spectropia is accidentally transported to NYC in 1931 when her machine short circuits and she finds herself in the body of another woman - Verna de Mott - an amateur sleuth.

Spectropia was made possible with the generous support of the Greenwall Foundation; the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology; the LEF Foundation; the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; the Multi-Arts Production Fund; the New York State Council on the Arts; the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York Foundation for the Arts; the Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University; and the Artech and Performing Arts Lab, Kent, UK.