YQI/Franke Nontechnical Talk Series: Toni Dove

Event time: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Linsly-Chittenden Hall LC, 102 See map
63 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Speaker/Performer: 
Toni Dove
Event description: 

Join us for the 19th talk of Yale Quantum Institute series of nontechnical talks aiming to bring a new regard to quantum physics and STEM by having experts cast new light on often-overlooked aspects of scientific work.
Embodied Machines & Human Operated Instruments: working in a field that doesn’t exist yet

Considered a pioneer of interactive cinema, New York-based artist Toni Dove creates human operated instruments that tell stories. Using embodied interface, such as motion sensing and skeletal tracking, to manipulate media in real time, she creates genre mashing narratives that examine the impact of technological change on the world we live in as it evolves around us. She asks how these changes alter how we invent ourselves. Her disruptive practice, evolved over years, has produced machines that blur the boundaries between performance and installation and fuse film, game, experimental theater, robotics and artificial intelligence-based interaction to create immersive experience. Dove’s current project in development Sunjammer Six: A Tale Told by a Solar Breeze is a mixed reality installation that uses proprietary AI to allow characters to interact with multiple audience members. It’s a story about Hypatia, a mathematician assassinated in 415 CE, who returns as a furious ghost and encounters a NASA engineer in the future building an off-world power station. Toni Dove is currently a fellow at Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media.

This event is co-sponsored by The Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, and the Schwarzman Center.

Admission: 
Free but register in advance