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Event 1:

For my first event I attended the Toni Dove Art/Sci DMA Lecture on April 19th 2016.

Toni Dove

Toni Dove talked about using interactivity to navigate in a way in which you can connect to media. I found this perspective interesting because it reminded me about one of the first readings we did in the class. In Snow's reading it talked about finding the connection between the art and science. Yes Toni Dove is not specifically stating these two things as finding a connection but her trying to find a way to become more involved with art through technology is great. I also was amazed at how she used the camera from a computer to capture her movements which got mirrored through a virtual world. The histograms would show the video that is capturing her movements with her hands. Before listening to her speak and the videos that were shown I did not know that was possible. I thought there had to be a remote control or it had to be done graphically on a computer. 

She talked about her interest with interface and how interface can contain a recipe for disbelief. She wanted to put those two things together, one being suspension of disbelief and the other being interface of the narrative to create a powerful immersive language. Toni Dove wanted to experiment with a full narrative and she created a featured like movie that was performed by two people on 3  screens and it acted as multiple virtual realities. For example two that I remembered are searching for her father and ending up in the body of another women in New York during stock crash.

This helps me understand the correlation between technology and art because she uses technology to advance her visions. She uses robotics in the sense of imaging her reactions to be perceived by another. As well as by typing a word and it being said by "Sally" I believe. The way art is used by Toni Dove is different from what I have seen. She has a compilation of art robotics and technology. The images I chose to post symbolize to me some of the most advanced works she displayed to us. They are either apart of her full narrative or when she enhanced the play to 3 screens and the visions behind her motivation.