Event Info:

Toni Dove: Spectropia

Spectropia is a highly imaginative live-mix cinema event, a “scratchable” movie performed by video DJs playing a movie “instrument”. Toni Dove’s sci-fi hybrid, features time travel, telepathy, and elements of film noir in a drama set in England, 2099 and in New York City, 1931, following the Great Crash. Live performers orchestrate onscreen characters through an original mix of film, performance and a unique system of motion sensing that serves as a cinematic instrument, creating a narrative form that is part video game, part feature film, and part VJ mashing. The audience sees through characters’ eyes, hears their interior thoughts, and even talks with characters via Dove and her co-performer, R. Luke DuBois, in a post show Q&A.

Curator: Kathleen Forde

Images: Courtesy of Bustlelamp Productions, Inc.

Toni Dove:

Since the early 1990s New York-based Toni Dove has produced performances and installations that redefine the form of traditional narrative using interactive components. Her award-winning work has been presented in the United States, Europe and Canada as well as in print and on radio and television.