Toni Dove
Spectropia
Thu, Nov 1 - Sat, Nov 3, 2007 | 8:00PM
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"Not only sets a new mark for interactive works, but opens the door to a new form of aesthetic experience…that changes forever our conceptions of narrative and fiction."—ArtByte
Theater fans and those interested in new media technology will be fascinated by Toni Dove’s Spectropia. Stage artists like The Builders Association, Cynthia Hopkins, and Big Art Group have recently shown how imaginatively new media can energize theater. Now interactive digital video innovator Toni Dove adds a new dimensions to the hybridization of media arts and performance.
Some may recall Dove’s Artificial Changelings from the Wexner Center’s groundbreaking exhibition Body Mécanique, which explored the interface of new media and emergent art forms back in 1998. With Spectropia, Dove has created a futuristic video experience whose narrative is shaped by live performers. They trigger its flow and create interactive scenarios involving audience reactions much like how a DJ builds a live mix. Spectropia, Dove’s sci-fi heroine, travels back in time from the dystopian near future to a noirish version of the 1930s, after the stock market crash. The story uses the metaphor of supernatural possession to investigate desire, consumer culture, dislocation, and identity: How do I know who am I? Who is pulling the strings?
Here's a plot summary from the show's program: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 New York City in 1931 when her machine short circuits and she finds herself in the body of another woman, Verna de Mott, an amateur sleuth.
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Made possible in part by a grant from the National Performance Network’s Performance Residency Program. Major contributors of the National Performance Network include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), Altria, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. For more information: npnweb.org.
MAJOR PERFORMING ARTS SEASON SUPPORTHuntington Bank
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The Columbus Foundation
SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS
Morgan Stanley
Nationwide Foundation
ADDITIONAL FUNDING
Ohio Arts Council
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The Blackwell Inn
All Wexner Center programs and events receive support from the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation and Wexner Center members.
