Event 3 | Toni Dove

 

Fig 1. My registration for COLOR LIGHT MOTION. 



I enjoyed listening to Toni Dove’s COLOR LIGHT MOTION talk. She took the audience through the pieces she created along with the ideas that went into making them. For all the pieces, Dove’s main focus was people’s interaction with the art and machinery. 

Fig 2. Lasso


In the first part of the talk, Dove showed the audience three yellow, glowing, and spinning sticks. At first I didn’t really know what it was about until she pointed out that it was about the scale of the movement. I liked the piece, but when she pivoted into talking about the uncanny valley as well as our human tendency to empathize with (not too) humanoid objects it was really interesting because I never thought about it like that before. 


Fig 3. Dove, The Dress that Eats Souls, 2018.


Another piece I liked was The Dress That Eats Souls. Like other interactive works of art, it takes the user’s movements as an input and returns a unique output (Javelosa). The Dress That Eats Souls was interesting because of the design that went into it. Dove wanted the user to create a relationship with the dress then have the dress break that relationship once the interaction was over. She essentially needed to create a chat bot that took the user’s movements as inputs rather than text (Stream Creative). This sounds astoundingly difficult and props to Dove for making it a reality.  


Overall, this was a really cool talk about the intersection between art and technology. Like other pieces that combine the two, I’m looking forward to seeing where Dove will continue to take her art (Taggart).


References

Javelosa, J. (2017, January 6). Any surface can now become an interactive work of art. 

Futurism. https://futurism.com/any-surface-can-now-become-an-interactive-work-of-art

Stream Creative. (2020, April 13). Chatbot scripts: A step by step guide (With examples & 

templates). Milwaukee Inbound Marketing & Design Agency. https://www.streamcreative.com/chatbot-scripts-examples-templates

Taggart, E. (2019, December 17). Best of 2019: Top 10 technology-inspired art projects of the 

year. My Modern Met. https://mymodernmet.com/top-tech-art-2019.

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